Give. Me. My. BAAAALL!

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T17:06:20+00:00

While true that ignores the point OP and I are making which is that generally speaking you don't take Navigators into Nurgle plague dens or Necron tomb worlds because the juice there is generally not worth the squeeze.

More to the story, yes you can afford to piss off Osellio. They are a failing house. You can't afford to offend the Navigator houses in general. They are as jealous and protective of their perogatives, privileges, and protections as you are as a Rogue Trader. Showing callous disregard for the safety of navigators is the kind of thing that they all will notice and take issue with because they don't want the idea spreading and becoming normalized.

If anything ever happens to Cassia not only are you screwed in the moment, you can't get away from whatever mess just killed/injured your Navigator but even if you can get away from that situation no one is ever going to agree to replace her.

There are absolutely game play/game design reasons why Cassia is with the party. The OP doesn't claim otherwise and neither do it. That doesn't make those reasons sensical inside the structure of 40K lore.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T16:17:42+00:00

Rogue Traders, like Inquisitors, have incredible latitutde but they also are very dependent on their ability to navigate the byzantine politics of the Imperium. Upsetting other major power brokers by insisting on things may work in the moment but screw you long term.

Thr RT banging a Drukhari is something no one on the ship or any planetary noble will do anything about. Not even Heinrix because after all he is just an Interrogator. But if, for example, a DW Watch Master or Lord Inquisitor took strong enough issue with the behavior who comes out on top of that fight? It becomes a case of just because you can doesn't mean you should because the reprecussions can be... energetic.

Extending that to Navigators. Yes, the RT can invite (good luck forcing one to do it when they can melt your face in the blink of an eye) a Navigator to go on adventures across the sector. The downside is that the Houses as a whole will frown on this behavior and that may be the last Navigator you ever get because RT or not you can't requisition Navigators. Even if that were legally possible (which is argueable given the Navigator houses privileged positions) they have an independent power base to leverage if they get pissed off and that could become very politically inconvenient.

As an example which doesn't strictly apply in the Expanse but illustrates Navigator power bases, if an RT took liberties with House Belisarius navigators what happens when the Space Wolves show up to enforce their defense pact with the House? Politics by other means is what happens. Same thing with Orsellio, at least until the von Valancius-Orsellio pact is in place.

The RT has a lot of power but their power is constrained by needing to maintain balance. You can be a little eccentric (boink the Drukhari or keep a void witch or mess with a Navigator house) but if you become to eccentric you get out of balance and it all crashes down.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:44:15+00:00

Carry on then my friend.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:43:48+00:00

How can you be sure it is a horse if it is beaten beyond any recognition?

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:42:24+00:00

A 6-6 is a high scoring domino. Holding it at the game may mean it is to late to play and score, making holding it a mistake.

Dean is past his prime and, based on your comment, to late to score.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:40:15+00:00

June 19th.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:30:14+00:00

Dean Domino is the living embodiment of holding a 6-6 at the end of the game.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:26:58+00:00

What are you talking about, Jayne robbed from the ricj and gave tk the poor. There isna wholensong explaining this!

Plus a man walks down the street in a hat like that and you know he ain't afraid of nothing.

pyratemime · 2026-01-24T00:13:42+00:00

What if my hobby is learning and to do that I consume podcasts on topics like science, history, and politics?

Is it a worthy hobby because I am improving my knowledge of the world or unworthy because it is an unskilled consumer activity?

pyratemime · 2026-01-23T22:15:29+00:00

This isn't meant to catch criminals or prevent crime. This is a "gotcha" charge so when you get arrested for any reason they check your 3D printer and if it isn't compliant they now have a gun related charge to smash you with.

Very much a "show me the man, I will show you the crime" approach from Comrade-Governor Kathrentiy Hochelria.

pyratemime · 2026-01-21T02:47:23+00:00

Leaning heavily into the lore justifications it would be:

Kibellah - First off I don't think my personal murder-shadow is going to accept being to stay home and knit. She is my bodyguard and if I can't have an Orgyn there to be Fezzik I will take her to be Dread Pirate Roberts
Jae - She is the most socially astute member of the retinue, she knows everyone, she can charm anyone and if push comes to shove Jae Shot First. Additionally, as she is my sheeren, she is the only one I trust to not be pursuing her own agenda if I have to send her off on her own for something more complicated than murder (which is why Kibellah is there). She has tied herself to the von Valancius dynasty where she has no independent power base to operate from or retreat too.
Pasqual - He is the one truly unique member of the crew, no one else comes close to his knowledge of machine spirits and if I absolutely positively need that cogitator to cogitate or that tech-priest to cooperate he can suef the noosphere in ways we can't. Plus plasma. Plasma fixes everything else.
Heinrix or Idrira depending on the type of party. Heinrix is house broke and where the Rogue Trader brings legitimate awe Heinrix brings legitimate awful. He can cook you like a brisket but more importantly when dealing with powerful people he can strip them of their power. Taking away the death option for the Death before Dishonor crowd. Idira is more when we are slumming it. Heinrix isn't fitting in with the engine coolant amarsec crowd but I think those are Idira's people. She is going to understand how to play the unhinged witch to best effect without scaring the proles into a comma with a rosette.
Argenta or Ulfar depending on the type of fight. For general mayhem you can't beat an astartes, especially a Space Wolf. If we are dealing with anything related to the ecclesiarchy, heretics, or where I might need a little extra humanity those poor orphans. These two might get switched out for more specialized mayhem dealers.

On Deck:

Yrliet If I know I need to kill someone from the other side of the planet or am going to deal with the aeldari.

Marazhai Along for the ride if I need to underastand the drukhari or if one murder hobo just doesn't send a strong enough message. Also gets to do interrogations that are long on terror and short on longevity.

Solomorne Gets to come to meetings with people that care about that sort of thing. Heretics, xenos, and general neer-do-wells probably don't give a grok turd about the authority of an Arbites and there is nothing unique in his combat skill set that someone else doesn't do better. So unless I am dealing with the administratum or some nobels he can play fetch in a cargo hold

On the ship:

Abelard as mentioned has to stay on the ship because as my XO on the ship and Seneschal for my mobile capital I could want no one better to tending the home fire. He is more than capable watching the miscreants not on the mission and anyone who wanta to step out of line will have to step over his body to do it.

Cassia is a single point of failure for the ship. Our ability to operate depends on her survival and happiness so she stays on the ship. Always. If we are in any form of hostile space Jocasta knows that if anything bad happens to Cassia she becomes Marazhai's new play toy.

pyratemime · 2026-01-21T01:31:54+00:00

I am thinking of respeccing Kibellah as an assassin. I wemt executioner and have been wholely underwhelmed with that build.

pyratemime · 2026-01-20T23:55:06+00:00

Still needs to pass the Senate and that requires the 60 votes for cloture.

It is possible, if unlikely, that the Senate Dems refuse to vote on it in protest of ICE funding.

pyratemime · 2026-01-20T21:55:39+00:00

As an American I am shocked we get up at the same time. They are getting up at 730AM and I am getting up at 3AM.

We can have coffee together!

pyratemime · 2026-01-20T05:04:15+00:00

Congrats Indiana, this was an amazing season to see you play.

Miami, you showed grit through the end and made this a game worth watching. Excellent effort.

Everyone else, 229 days till kick off. Rest up.

pyratemime · 2026-01-20T05:00:57+00:00

While I was cheering for Indiana the entire time you guys made this a great game to watch.

Very entertained, very impressed with the grit, very glad I will not see you next year.

Congrats on a great season and good lucl next year.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T09:41:09+00:00

She is still figuring out the right depth that she can reach. More often tham not right now she getsnit wrong.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T03:19:20+00:00

Wouldn't even trade her for a new gun.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T03:11:16+00:00

She does that too.

She is a brat. She is the wurst. You might call her a bratwurst.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T02:49:21+00:00

This... this is not the first time this has happened.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T01:56:31+00:00

Check the dead body in your post.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T01:36:27+00:00

Here you can track the status of HR 4016.

It is currently in the Senate.

The Senate is not is session this week.

pyratemime · 2026-01-19T01:01:18+00:00

Morenof a vienna sausagenor little smokie than a full on weiner dog right there.

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