Comical bluffing, were your station doing anything threatening to the planet below, the RSS and Republic Fleet would be all over you like a plague of flies. I’ve not seen a single local - or more widespread - news report or comment from the RF on the actions of you and your Astrahus.
Drop your bombs, if they’d actually made it past the orbital defence systems that pretty much every well populated planet has these days, we’d be the first to know. 12% my left arse cheek, Vektor.
Hot damn, but I love the ‘ignore’ feature on the forums these days.
Reporting is the best way to fight assholes in forums and venues with rules that they violate.
The inability to stay on-topic and and reasonably respectful is not winning. It’s just sucking at the game of words.
Maybe you should stick to lasers: at least hopefully you know which way to hold those.
Just checking in on the progress towards your removal of our Astra. You may want to reconsider your offer. At this point, after being bombarded for many months, my colleagues aboard the CTRLV astra confirm that all eukaryotic life has been purged from the surface of bosboger. Remediation efforts are underway to restore the planet to an inhabitable state so that it can be resettled by Amarrian families, free from the minmatar scourge. As we have little remaining need for this platform, might I collect the 500m by simply unanchoring it?
Thanks,
Mikal Vektor
Supreme Commander of the Amarr Militia
Yeaaaaah, short of slagging the planet into a shattered husk like Starkman Prime, I promise, that’s a feat waaaay beyond the capability of any orbital bombardment. The sheer number of ways you’d have to poison the biosphere would bankrupt groups like us, or FRT, and you ain’t got nearly the triple-digit trillions-sized warchest for it. To say nothing of the fact that most of it… would actually be self-contradictory. The things that kill some life tends to energize others, including extremophiles and anaerobic eukaryotes.
To achieve it, you’d need to basically blanket the planet to a depth of over 5km below the seafloor with antimatter, and at that point, you’re more or less boiling off the atmosphere entirely, considering the amount of energy you’d release.
Man, I bet you’re a real hoot at social events.
In fact, she is. But that’s neither here nor there, really.
I’m sorry, I didn’t really mean to demonstrate how completely idiotic your claim of eradicating all eukaryotic life on the surface of a terran planet via orbital bombardment is… except, you know, I did mean to, so nevermind.
Honestly, just what sort of munitions do you think can do that, short of literally annihilating the matter itself? If you’d said all human life? Sure. All terrestrial tetrapods over a bodymass of 10kg? Not inconceivable. But all eukaryotic life, while leaving the planet in a condition where you can even hope to remediate it? Ridiculous.
Capsuleer-grade brain farts.
As someone largely familiar with terraforming and planetary remidiation, AS WELL as munition yields, I concur with your general assessment.
Just as soon as you stop making ridiculous claims and expecting them to be taken seriously by anyone with an ounce of sense.
C’mon now. Just what kind of munitions do you purport to have been using that would’ve wiped out all oceanic1 eukaryotes, including extremophiles and anaerobic microbes? How many of them do you think did the job? How’d you get a munition cheap enough to use en masse that was also capable of atmospheric entry without premature detonation and didn’t leave the planet completely uninhabitable without literally reprocessing quintillions of tons of water and trillions of tons of soil, not to mention completely scrubbing the entire atmosphere?
Do you have even the first concept of just how idiotic you sound, making such a claim and then retreating into things like ‘omg, so cringey, you actually want me to make rational claims that are even remotely possible for my pissant little alliance to have achieved’? I know, you think it’s clever to retreat into the edgelord nonsense, but you know, really? It’s just weak. The very fact that you can’t even begin to support those claims with even the slightest bit of information only serves to highlight that.
1. Seriously, take a look at Bos I. It’s like 90% ocean-cover. Just making the claim means you’re primarily targeting places where the enemy wasn’t living. What’s next? The foliage all had to go because the Empire’s at war with plants?
The main reason I haven’t responded seriously to your commentary is simply that I find it really cringe. You recognize that we, the Amarr, who achieved intersetellar travel and who perfected laser based weapon systems on spacefaring vessels kilometers long while the other races were fighting amongst themselves with sticks and rocks, would encounter insurmountable challenges developing an affordable atmospheric entry vehicle that could deal with an apparent “premature detonation” problem? Do you think we’re just throwing TNT into a bucket and pushing it down onto the planet with our hands are something?
((I don’t think you actually are concerned about this, I think you’re just trying to bait OOC explanations on an IC forum so that you can report posts and weaponize moderators. In the context of the apparent desire of some in this community to see the community grow, this is kind of sad to see, as it really, really, doesn’t encourage participation. But hey, you do you I guess))
Your baiting aside, if you’re actually going to resort to this flavour of commentary, it helps if you actually know what you’re talking about. The Amarr had a developed understanding of organismal diversity before the rest of you understood what cells were. In that context, you’ll notice that I said eukaryotes, which no, would not generally include “extremophiles”, which are typically bacterial (prokaryotes). Indeed, it would be difficult to eradicate a species that has made its home deep in an ocean, clinging to vents spewing noxious gas for a living. Perhaps if you developed some better reading comprehension or had even a pedestrian understanding of introductory biology, it would not fall to me to correct you in this way, but alas, here we are.
Anyhow, sorry for the tangent - I believe you were telling me that I don’t know what I’m talking about?
Frankly, laser weapons are terrible as an option for orbital bombardment, so I don’t think citing them is doing you any favors here. In addition, no, you clearly didn’t ‘perfect laser based weapon systems on spacefaring vessels kilometers long while the other races were fighting amongst themselves with sticks and stones’, because a)the Jove, and b) titans and dreads just ain’t that old, Binky. There’s also the fact that fitting laser weapons on ships kilometers long is actually less impressive than fitting combat-functional lasers on ships less than 70 meters long. Big ship == big power plant, lots of room for cooling systems, lots of room for focusing arrays, etc etc. Small ships, and the lasers that remain capable of melting tritanium hulls while fitted to it? That’s a lot more impressive technology.
Next, Amarr bomb and missile technology is no more advanced than anyone else’s, so you can get right the heck off your high horse, because that’s one hell of a straw man you set up there. But hey, you did it without presenting any information, so go you!
Aaaand no, once again, Amarr biochemical sciences were never so far ahead of anyone else’s. And I did notice you said eukaryotes! But since there are, in fact, extremophile and anaerobic eukaryotes, you really can’t dodge it by claiming ‘oh, those don’t exist’… because they definitely do, including fungi, protozoans, a number of types of red algae… but hey, you focus on trying to imagine all extremophiles are bacteria. Really. Way to double-down on the dumb.
Perhaps if you developed even a pedestrian understanding of introductory biology, you could actually be right.
Not much an issue of making a re-entry vehicle for such things, and more getting it past anti-kinetic defense batteries and other planetary defense systems. Which, if you’ve managed to get every last one, or even the majority, past those batteries I’d be largely surprised. Especially for an inhabited world with any notable population density, without those defenses having already been mass disrupted by other processes like active ground fighting or sabotage.
Additionally, your claims of such bombardments smacks quite closely to the activities of EoM forces recently under guise of the various empire PMCs… one might think you may be in league with such radicals even…
Oh yeah you got me. What I said was super silly because there’s this really niche intersection between eukaryotic organisms, and extremophiles that could possibly survive any fiscally reasonable orbital bombardment from our space faring race of slavers. You know what, you can take this win. It seems like you really need it 
No, what you said was super silly because it was an utterly ridiculous claim to making on at least three different levels, including Aldrith’s ‘stop blowing up Lord Ardishapur’s property down there’, the utter idiocy of making that claim while CONCORD’s still trying to figure out if attacking the planets in the warzone is in fact a war crime, and the pure nonsense of the claim scientifically and logistically.
But don’t worry, this wasn’t a win: you’re still consuming resources in my universe, and I’m still enough of an arrogant ■■■■■ to be offended by that.
Welp, while you’re struggling with phylogenetics and understanding the logistics of how a people that can travel lightyears in seconds could possibly develop the technology to glass a planet from orbit, we’ll be busy nourishing the biosphere to prepare for recolonization now that we’ve, you know, glassed the planet from orbit. If some part of this bothers you, feel free to board a ship, undock from 1DQ, and remove the station yourself. If we’re as inept as you seem to think we are, it shouldn’t be much issue for an esteemed leader of such a mighty combat-oriented entity such as your alliance…
Says the guy who pushed the ‘most extremophiles are bacteria, so the others don’t matter’
Lovely little straw man you’ve set up there, but let’s go back to my first response:
The difficulty isn’t glassing the planet, it’s doing it in a way that makes the thing recoverable in any time scale less than, well, geologic. So, you keep on trying to argue against things that weren’t said, misrepresenting what was, and pretending that you’ve actually glassed the planet with one paltry astrahus.
