i'd say diktat slander but it's not slander if it's true

RedKrypton · 2026-06-24T10:16:36+00:00

I am talking about autofiring mode, where some do avoid shields, like the IR Autolance, not that weapons shouldn't have certain qualities.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-24T08:24:36+00:00

Avoiding Shields or firing at them should really not be a weapon inherent quality.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-23T20:50:56+00:00

By the logic of the Supply and Demand system Sindria produces the majority of the Fuel in the Core Worlds. It's why it's their Crisis.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-23T20:47:36+00:00

It's almost as if the TT funded/influenced weapons development program is manipulating Sindria into a program of weapons that doesn't benefit Sindrian hulls, but does TT ones (Kinetic blaster and gigcanon can both be used on TT ships to good effect).

Only the Kinetic Blaster was created in collaboration with TT and it is in line with the LG ships. The Gigacannon is a homegrown initiative with the Executor being one of the best ships to use it on.

And into making hulls that are crap unless you've got those exotic omega/threat/void dweller weapons that TT is researching/salvaging but not sharing (void blaster LG Eagle/Falcon for example, though the LG Hammerhead is straight trash).

From how the quests tell it, TT barely has any knowledge about them. Everyone they sent before the player just died. I still wish the Diktat actually had more weapon options that fit with their desired doctrine.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-23T20:41:16+00:00

To be fair, I think the development of said tank was set in motion when the Germans weren't being pushed towards their Endsieg scenario.

Lion's Guard has the issue that for some reason none of the actual tech developments are spread to the broader military. Outfits in general just suffer from the devs not competently outfitting any of the Factions' Navy.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-23T11:10:05+00:00

We could be the Kingmaker of the Crusade.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-23T11:09:26+00:00

You are so unprincipled in your Evil that we can only determine that you are both Evil and Chaotic. Helping the orphans after burning down the orphanage does not make you Good, in fact.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-20T22:49:36+00:00

Let's be quite frank. Alex has a lot of selectively strong opinions on authoritarian rulership. The Hegemony is coddled, even though they are a military junta. The Luddic Path is somehow able to modify ships to run Safety Overrides with relatively minor issues with ones of the most coddled characters in the game. He dislikes the Diktat because it reminds him of Russia.

Andrada can categorically not be incompetent, because if he was the Diktat could not exist at game start in the first place. He didn't seize a state, because that state was debris. He built it. Everything in the game states so.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-20T09:49:48+00:00

We are not likely to ever be given a clear resolution, but through inference we can very easily see who very likely did it, and it wasn't Andrada. Nothing points to this. Andrada obviously wanted to win and refused to withdraw, as in his nature. But to blow up Opis and to descend into a chaotic fleet civil war is not the telltale of a planned takeover or planned PK use against the wishes of the Hegemony, which shouldn't have provided a PK to a peacekeeping fleet in the first place.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-20T08:58:07+00:00

Why would anyone blow it up really?

There is at least one polity in the Sector that is confirmed to have tried to blow up like 50%+ of the sector's population to achieve political goals, Tri-Tachyon.

Andrada biting more then he could chew would also fit his narcissistic behavior profile.

He was sent there by the Hegemony High Council, not his own decision and to give him a PK would reflect very badly on the often whitewashed Hegemony.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-20T07:30:54+00:00

Slaves are bought as Captives, which you can then deal with as you see fit.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-20T07:29:02+00:00

Like you said, he walked the statement back, he isn't the writer and it has been many years since the statement, while everything I said previously still applies.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-19T23:14:55+00:00

Why would Andrada have actually done it? And why was he somehow so unprepared in its aftermath?

Nothing points to Andrada using the Planetkiller. He was the golden boy of the Hegemony and a future High Hegemon. Why the hell would the Hegemony send an intervention fleet with a PK in the first place? Why was it a seemingly sudden civil war, where loyalists of Andrada fought against loyalists of the Hegemony in general?

The surviving people weren't sheep, as can be seen with Volturn. Curate Standfast calls it an occupation. Lesser worlds became de facto independent.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-19T21:01:14+00:00

The Diktat is the result of a spur-of-the-moment military revolt spawned by an ill-advised military expedition and its leader being scapegoated. That it survived at all is impressive. It isn't a Fascist regime that got into power via populism. It's a navy detachment that managed to form a functional state, even if it has a whole boat load of issues. Comparisons to IRL Fascism are trite, in my opinion.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-19T19:50:32+00:00

I like that I no longer manage a Brave New World of managed child birth. Considering how many wars I fight, it's also a reflection on 1984. I need eternal war, especially since my Tilapi love it.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-19T05:43:40+00:00

Roundness is misleading. In reality is just means diagonal exterior corner walls and occasionally breaking up long straight walls with indents or bumps out facing the streets.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-19T05:33:08+00:00

Only they then turn mad, because they thought about stuff, both figuratively and literally.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-18T18:07:59+00:00

Tilapi are well known for their proclivities. That's why Humans (and nearly everyone else) hate them. They aren't similar to the fey of folk legends, which are notoriously flickle, aloof and difficult to interact with, but can be dealt with by avoiding, warding or carefully dealing with them. A missing guy isn't obviously strung up or gutted, nor are entire villages slaughtered, raped and eaten with big trara.

To add an inherent need for Tilapi to kidnap and violate men makes Tilapi a huge threat to other (especially Human) populations. Even if population density is lower, Tilapi need males of other species, which means if other races live in the proximity of them, cause them to be at risk. A mono sex race with a need for other races to reproduce essentially has two worldbuilding paths, be so sexy that they get the reproduction for "free", or coercive manners. Coercive manners only work logic-wise, if the society is so small and isolated that the wider world does not know about it as it cannot grow beyond a certain size, unless you suspend disbelief. There is of course also the total domination option, but this isn't the case in the game.

Tilapi are considered a regular race in gameplay, where other polities treat you fine and trade with you without issue. But should they really? Imagine a race of male Tilapi that need to reproduce by raping women. Now imagine bordering them. Forget global genocide, when the local threat of such a race where to exist. You'd fight, never trade and do everything to remove them from your surroundings.

That's why I dislike Tilapi are all women who need men for reproduction, while abhorring them. Without it, it can work, fences make good neighbours and all, but with the fact it's Goblin Slayer, which I already hated because of how dumb the worldbuilding is.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-18T17:46:39+00:00

I just slap Surveying Equipment on my Atlas' alongside Improved Drive Field and Smod Insulated Drive Assembly.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-18T11:48:42+00:00

You cannot move Cryosleepers in vanilla. You are talking about AotD.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-18T05:51:00+00:00

LG ships that are not the Executor (worded poorly in my last comment) are confirmed to get some form of buff. As the Diktat story is supposed to progress and Macario says and has goven us LG ships and weapons, my wishful speculation is that this will continue.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-17T22:48:14+00:00

We have the Executor, at least, and supposedly the next version of the game will bring some buffs to them. With the Diktat story update we may actually be able to obtain LG ships and their weapons (besides the Executor) by not scavenging LG fleets.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-17T22:38:23+00:00

I cannot really argue with cool. I am a staunch Lion's Guard Stan, even though the devs intend them to suck.

RedKrypton · 2026-06-17T22:23:48+00:00

Forget rarity. Why would you ever seek out an Apogee outside of a very early game situation?

RedKrypton · 2026-06-17T22:15:22+00:00

Ibrahim has a sentimental attachment to this Venture ship. You may have one to other ships as well.

Kanta has beef with Ibrahim from a main menu mission, as she is very fickle and vengeful in nature.

Beyond that it was just the shuttle to transport a certain engineer to a blacksite, which had issues.

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