[member="Sieger Ren"]
I tell you what.
I think you're either over-thinking this or maybe just taking it a little too personal.
I'll give you a suggestion.
I threw the Kracken at the Wrath and I said that it impacted something.
That's it. "It ran into something."
Getting out of this is pretty simple.
Just give it something else to hit.
Cyrus has a vague-ish fleet of vague-ish size and vague-ish composition.
React to the Kracken. Panic a little. "Oh god, what is that thing!? It's coming right for us!"
Shoot at it. Shoot at it a lot.
And then, at the last second, out of nowhere... An escorting Battlecruiser counter-rams the Kracken and the two go tumbling off past the Wrath.
The Battlecruiser and Kracken bump into the Wrath along the way, skip off the armor/shields, then tumble off into the distance.
Let the Kracken omnom the Battlecruiser.
Have the Wrath be damaged, but functional.
Wobbly shields, some missing armor plating, a few decks exposed to Vacuum.
But mostly fine.
And you can go on about your day.
No mess, no fuss, no need to get worked up with it.
You can even have some fun with it and have Cyrus spend the next 5 posts complaining because the Officer's Messhall got blown into space and now he'll have to eat with the enlisted "Like a peasant."
Getting hit and taking hit's isn't really all that bad. It can actually make things a lot more fun.
Lose shields, lose a wing, find out that one Ensign that you hated got sucked out into space and feel bad for feeling a little good about his fate.
It give you more opportunity to have inter-character interactions and to explore the emotional depth of your characters.
Spending the whole battle without losing shields is boring.
It's boring to write and it's boring to write against and it leaves people either salty of thinking poorly of you.
I mean.
Like I was saying earlier.
I backed myself into a corner with the rock-paper-scissors game.
There is this one thing that Cyrus could do.
It'd definately more of a Jon thing than a Cyrus thing...
But if he does it?
That's a wrap for Mittens.
All 20km of the Squib fleet would get wiped out in a single post and Mittens would get killed in the process.
And that's totally a hit I would take.
And I'd encourage you and Cyrus and the other FO writers to really consider what I'm saying here.
Because it creates a much better writing experience.
You can take hits, get damaged, and keep on going.
It lets you continue writing, but it also builds interest for yourself and your allies, as well as making your opposition more likely to actually WANT to roleplay with you in the future.
Like... Right now I have a Wookiee alone on a ship with four other Player Characters, and not a one of them will just hike up their britches and go face him themselves.
I had this whole thing in my head of the Grand Moff shooting Grozurra in the face and he just yoinks the gun out of her hand, pulls out a spray bottle, and squirts her in the face with it. "No. Bad Imperial, back to your room!" And then have him wonder off and try to raise Kaine on the comms like "Hey boss, what's that Moff look like again? You said he had gray hair, right?"
But nobody will do any more than toss random NPCs at him.
And Mishka? She's a little girl without a helmet on her head. And she's currently alone against three player characters and another three NPCs. And instead of having a gun in her hand, lake a sane person, she's got a metal sword and a wooden shield.
I've got the deck stacked as heavily against her as I can get it.
And yet, instead of just shooting at her and rolling with it, I'm getting argued with OOC about why I shouldn't be allowed to engage those characters at all.
I don't really care. Win, lose, or draw on this planet... Nobody on ORC's side really cares. (Ok, I mean... Cathul's writer is a little excited, but that's about it) Sure, it's a neat planet and we've gotten a little attached to the silly little blue Jar-jar type species that somehow manages to be "like Jar-jar" but also oddly endearing... but if we lose the species and the planet? Nobody cares. We just wanna have some fun. Hence the whales and all the other craziness.
I just worry that the FO is getting a little worked up over all of this OOC, and I want to let you know that... It's not that serious. Please just have some fun along the way.
