Mosher
Mushroom dad
Not to mention the fact that AA, Thorvald, HJ, and I were allied 
Mobius: Total Chaos
- Thread starter Tani Coyote
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JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
The Freebotnik Empire is a Gargantuan miscreation that should have never been let to fully develop.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Screw this Mary Sue, I'm substituting my own!
Despite the signal being cut, the East Republic Company decided enough is enough and Nozomi defiantly escapes Mobius. But not before shooting him in the face for being a Mary Sue overpowered fat piece of crap. Nozomi and her crew escape through the rip and returned back to her own universe!
Kinich-Ahau
#JustGoomyThings
And then the Itzamna dropped AB Bombs on everyone.
Tani Coyote
Son of Huehuecoyotl
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...overreaction much? 
It's not insane to assume that someone with more knowledge of robotics and computer systems than practically anyone alive would be able to fight evenly with another technology-based empire. Never mind, Chaos Energy. As for Mobocentrism - well yeah. It's MOBIUS Total Chaos. Mobius is inherently the first place world.
Also, Mary Sue? His empire is limited to one planet. Given that some of the factions present in this game are galactic-spanning empires... that's a bit laughable.
It's not insane to assume that someone with more knowledge of robotics and computer systems than practically anyone alive would be able to fight evenly with another technology-based empire. Never mind, Chaos Energy. As for Mobocentrism - well yeah. It's MOBIUS Total Chaos. Mobius is inherently the first place world.
Also, Mary Sue? His empire is limited to one planet. Given that some of the factions present in this game are galactic-spanning empires... that's a bit laughable.
Not to mention the fact that AA, Thorvald, HJ, and I were allied
That was before Tany trolled literally everyone but you and Tyo by creating the Freebotnik Empire.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
hoplitejoe
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I just have accepted what happens in Tani games.
...overreaction much?
It's not insane to assume that someone with more knowledge of robotics and computer systems than practically anyone alive would be able to fight evenly with another technology-based empire. Never mind, Chaos Energy. As for Mobocentrism - well yeah. It's MOBIUS Total Chaos. Mobius is inherently the first place world.
Also, Mary Sue? His empire is limited to one planet. Given that some of the factions present in this game are galactic-spanning empires... that's a bit laughable.
No Tani, Cross universe/dimensional empires.
Mosher
Mushroom dad
Don't forget Red_Spy, who also merged.
Tani Coyote
Son of Huehuecoyotl
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Never mind even with the merge, Free Mobius would have been able to pose a threat... the Third Robotnik War would have been fun times!
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I'd like to see a newer IOT:Mobius. I wanna play as the Geth in that one .
.Yeah sure whatever.
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Graceheart the Leopard
Resident Amur leopard
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Are we still working on this?
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Yes.
Unfortunately I critically misjudged just how much free time I could spare for everything.
Also, if I could get input from everybody outstanding, that'd help. I've only heard from, like, five or six people.
Unfortunately I critically misjudged just how much free time I could spare for everything.
Also, if I could get input from everybody outstanding, that'd help. I've only heard from, like, five or six people.
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Itzamna struck first.
Within the greater scope of what unfolded, it is, perhaps, a trivial detail; and what with the free-for-all that erupted shortly afterward, utterly inconsequential to any political course of action that followed. A spot on the timeline, nothing more. It didn’t matter then; it probably won’t matter now or in the future, not even to the usual polemicists. I’m not sure how they’d try to spin it; world opinion was staunchly behind Itzamna, even amongst the so-called Freebotnik collaborationists. Nevertheless, I feel it worth noting, if only for posterity’s sake, who officially rattled the chain.
Everyone knew war was coming. Anyone who knew anything about that planet knew that whenever Eggman’s face was seen in public, trouble was afoot. Those who didn’t heard it from their Mobian citizens; those without Mobians heard it through their embassies, or their spy networks, or however else they chose to keep in touch with one another. 01 may have been the odd player out; but by M.Y. 1224 that supercomputer was reaching its final cycle anyway. Even if it had known what was in store, I doubt it could have saved itself.
But most of the world expected Robotnik to make the first move. He always did. Having co-opted key neighbours either through annexation or diplomatic buyout, the technocracy stood poised to take on the world in one concerted assault. Most remaining “free” nations opted to batten down the hatches: take, then give, whatever they had left. No-one—rather, no-one but Itzamna—thought to take the fight to Eggman before the fight had started. In this respect, Itzamna was either incredibly brave, or hopelessly naïve; probably some combination of both. Such a stunt certainly would have earned them the Mobians’ immediate respect.
Would have, but for Anarchy Beryl.
Even if public statements were not conclusive evidence that the chaos stockpile existed, the threats told the world, and therefore Eggman, that Itzamna was considering a desperate peremptory strike. Given that the Black Arms had only just been silenced, the use of AB bombs was roundly condemned as a great leap backwards, tantamount to an international atrocity. In fact, that aspect alone might have been what kept the other nations from immediately joining in on the attack, fearful of being perceived to condone such nightmarish measures, even against Robotnik. Itzamna took a massive gamble in launching the strike, and paid dearly for its cavalier approach both at home and abroad. But we’ll get to that later.
Like I said, Eggman expected an attack. When the missiles entered Freebotnik airspace, its own silos were on a hair trigger. But they were not aimed at Itzamna—at least, not all of them. Instead, the counter-battery was directed beyond Mobius, to the RNS Rikke and its destroyer escort. The East Republic Company, in addition to being Itzamna’s ally, possessed off-world support unmatched by anything planetside. Its ships had been a confounding obstacle to Eggman’s strategies—allegedly lying out of reach even of Mobius’ patron demigods, so they say—and they needed to be neutralized if any substantive campaign was to take place. Now, the Coruscantis were veterans of cosmic warfare, and they built their spaceships to take a beating. But Eggman knew how to exploit technology with a finesse second to none present on that world. The ships weren’t at full battle readiness, either because Itzamna hadn’t coordinated its attack or the ER Company was trying to bluff its mobilization level; but even if they had been, Eggman had more tricks than they could take. Three salvoes of cluster missiles, specifically designed to confound most interception systems, closely-timed and specially-tuned: the first knocked out their shields, the second jammed onboard electronics, and the third breached the hulls. The ships were torn apart; the break-up was seen from the surface, and debris rained down across the planet for three weeks straight.
Freebotnik sacrificed virtually its entire stockpile to bring down the spaceships, leaving it with next to no strategic retaliatory capability for the remainder of the war; the few missiles flung toward Itzamna served mainly to keep the ER Company’s eyes on the surface and off its own back yard. But it was an overwhelming success, eliminating the Company’s trump card over the planet and bringing Itzamna’s ally quite literally down to earth. In addition, the Rikke quartered most of the expedition’s senior military commanders, and the garrison’s chain of command was thrown into disarray. Needless to say, Nozomi was livid: the destruction of the Rikke meant communications with Coruscant were severed. The Republic had blacklisted Mobius and she was the daughter of its most esteemed military leader, so she held no doubt a rescue party would be dispatched; but until it arrived, she was acting on her own, with limited force, against an opponent vastly superior in numbers, technology, and battlefield familiarity. It was a scenario no Coruscanti ever handled well; I’ve heard officers decades more veteran than her broke down from less harrowing odds.
As the world gaped at the lightshow, the first blitz began. Itzamna might have burnt out the Freebotnik heartland, but the shock troops were already massing along the frontier by the time the missiles were airborne. Enough robots survived bombardment to continue with the attack; badniks swarmed into Itzamnite North Cademstar while Praetorian legions advanced into Fringe. Border posts fell in short order; unweathered by the chaos energy that swirled around them, Freebotnik’s troops marched in with unnerving resolve. It was the sort of overture the Mobians had witnessed too often, such a magnificent display of shock-and-awe that led some states to believe the chaos barrage hadn't accomplished anything. Nevertheless, the forward thrust was dampened from what it could have been, and Itzamna rallied strong enough to force a stalemate, at least initially. Unlucky Fringe faced the élite cadre, and was sent reeling to the point it was almost wiped off its home continent. It probably would have been, too, but for the fact that the United Barbarian States, smelling a wounded animal, chose that moment to make their own ambitious strike against Eggman.
But, it’s getting late, and there is much, much more I have to tell. To bed; we can continue our story tomorrow.
Within the greater scope of what unfolded, it is, perhaps, a trivial detail; and what with the free-for-all that erupted shortly afterward, utterly inconsequential to any political course of action that followed. A spot on the timeline, nothing more. It didn’t matter then; it probably won’t matter now or in the future, not even to the usual polemicists. I’m not sure how they’d try to spin it; world opinion was staunchly behind Itzamna, even amongst the so-called Freebotnik collaborationists. Nevertheless, I feel it worth noting, if only for posterity’s sake, who officially rattled the chain.
Everyone knew war was coming. Anyone who knew anything about that planet knew that whenever Eggman’s face was seen in public, trouble was afoot. Those who didn’t heard it from their Mobian citizens; those without Mobians heard it through their embassies, or their spy networks, or however else they chose to keep in touch with one another. 01 may have been the odd player out; but by M.Y. 1224 that supercomputer was reaching its final cycle anyway. Even if it had known what was in store, I doubt it could have saved itself.
But most of the world expected Robotnik to make the first move. He always did. Having co-opted key neighbours either through annexation or diplomatic buyout, the technocracy stood poised to take on the world in one concerted assault. Most remaining “free” nations opted to batten down the hatches: take, then give, whatever they had left. No-one—rather, no-one but Itzamna—thought to take the fight to Eggman before the fight had started. In this respect, Itzamna was either incredibly brave, or hopelessly naïve; probably some combination of both. Such a stunt certainly would have earned them the Mobians’ immediate respect.
Would have, but for Anarchy Beryl.
Even if public statements were not conclusive evidence that the chaos stockpile existed, the threats told the world, and therefore Eggman, that Itzamna was considering a desperate peremptory strike. Given that the Black Arms had only just been silenced, the use of AB bombs was roundly condemned as a great leap backwards, tantamount to an international atrocity. In fact, that aspect alone might have been what kept the other nations from immediately joining in on the attack, fearful of being perceived to condone such nightmarish measures, even against Robotnik. Itzamna took a massive gamble in launching the strike, and paid dearly for its cavalier approach both at home and abroad. But we’ll get to that later.
Like I said, Eggman expected an attack. When the missiles entered Freebotnik airspace, its own silos were on a hair trigger. But they were not aimed at Itzamna—at least, not all of them. Instead, the counter-battery was directed beyond Mobius, to the RNS Rikke and its destroyer escort. The East Republic Company, in addition to being Itzamna’s ally, possessed off-world support unmatched by anything planetside. Its ships had been a confounding obstacle to Eggman’s strategies—allegedly lying out of reach even of Mobius’ patron demigods, so they say—and they needed to be neutralized if any substantive campaign was to take place. Now, the Coruscantis were veterans of cosmic warfare, and they built their spaceships to take a beating. But Eggman knew how to exploit technology with a finesse second to none present on that world. The ships weren’t at full battle readiness, either because Itzamna hadn’t coordinated its attack or the ER Company was trying to bluff its mobilization level; but even if they had been, Eggman had more tricks than they could take. Three salvoes of cluster missiles, specifically designed to confound most interception systems, closely-timed and specially-tuned: the first knocked out their shields, the second jammed onboard electronics, and the third breached the hulls. The ships were torn apart; the break-up was seen from the surface, and debris rained down across the planet for three weeks straight.
Freebotnik sacrificed virtually its entire stockpile to bring down the spaceships, leaving it with next to no strategic retaliatory capability for the remainder of the war; the few missiles flung toward Itzamna served mainly to keep the ER Company’s eyes on the surface and off its own back yard. But it was an overwhelming success, eliminating the Company’s trump card over the planet and bringing Itzamna’s ally quite literally down to earth. In addition, the Rikke quartered most of the expedition’s senior military commanders, and the garrison’s chain of command was thrown into disarray. Needless to say, Nozomi was livid: the destruction of the Rikke meant communications with Coruscant were severed. The Republic had blacklisted Mobius and she was the daughter of its most esteemed military leader, so she held no doubt a rescue party would be dispatched; but until it arrived, she was acting on her own, with limited force, against an opponent vastly superior in numbers, technology, and battlefield familiarity. It was a scenario no Coruscanti ever handled well; I’ve heard officers decades more veteran than her broke down from less harrowing odds.
As the world gaped at the lightshow, the first blitz began. Itzamna might have burnt out the Freebotnik heartland, but the shock troops were already massing along the frontier by the time the missiles were airborne. Enough robots survived bombardment to continue with the attack; badniks swarmed into Itzamnite North Cademstar while Praetorian legions advanced into Fringe. Border posts fell in short order; unweathered by the chaos energy that swirled around them, Freebotnik’s troops marched in with unnerving resolve. It was the sort of overture the Mobians had witnessed too often, such a magnificent display of shock-and-awe that led some states to believe the chaos barrage hadn't accomplished anything. Nevertheless, the forward thrust was dampened from what it could have been, and Itzamna rallied strong enough to force a stalemate, at least initially. Unlucky Fringe faced the élite cadre, and was sent reeling to the point it was almost wiped off its home continent. It probably would have been, too, but for the fact that the United Barbarian States, smelling a wounded animal, chose that moment to make their own ambitious strike against Eggman.
But, it’s getting late, and there is much, much more I have to tell. To bed; we can continue our story tomorrow.
Mosher
Mushroom dad
YES.
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