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Usually it's them usually trivially absorbing the other polity, or some crossover or wank bullshit where the other power can somehow wreck the Imperium. But having to engage in actual politics and negotiation here is fascinating, especially in a Primarch SI of all things. (check the last quote...
Btw have you check this comment of this fic yet ? It one of recent but quite well done so far. I don't think I've ever seen a fic where the Imperium needs to come to the table and negotiate with a rival power, especially in the Great Crusade...
As always, when you need inspiration and focus, you pull out your phone and your earplugs, look up a speech by Bruce Lee, and get to thinking.
The fight against Quentin - well, honestly, that wasn't particularly instructive, as far as fighting techniques go. You've learned that if you punch...
Stuff like this is what makes me somewhat sympathetic to anarchists sometimes. No one should be trusted to have any kind of power because it always leads to things like this.
Absolutely preach, but for the payment processors the name of the game right now is legal liability. Everything they're doing is to cover their own asses.
The broader game - and the reason why they're experiencing this pressure to begin with - is very explicitly censorship. All of this is...
Now that's a reasonable explanation, though I got to admit ... I laughed out loud at the notion of credit companies willing to fight for their 'pure' reputation.
When their reputation lies in between pond scum and the turd off the street that came from a pig's ass, lmao.
Pity that making those...
July 27, 1917
Smolny Institute
Petrograd, Russia — Evening
I chewed on my thumb, ink-stained and calloused, as I signed off on yet another piece of paperwork—this one a payment summary from one of our more... community-minded brothels down by the docks for this week. 3 crates of Mosin-Nagant...
No, the entire point with the most current iteration of the topic is that Visa and Mastercard are explicitly saying they won't support payment processing for anything they may consider a brand risk or capable of causing 'reputational damage.' No one's using the 'high rate of chargeback' excuse...
"And before you even begin to wonder, your third choice on where to put the ring results in a minature portal to the Dimension of Blades on the inside of the ring."
"....Why do you know that?"
"How do you think evil Eunuchs' became a thing? I am far less cruel than my predecessors."
Still, it is the excuse they use, so good luck proving that they're wrong with all of that juicy confidential data they're sitting on like dragons. :p
Nah, they simply want to push an entire industry into the hands of organized crime to ensure that all of that money ends up dancing in Rule 8's...
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POV: Arthur Cameron
Ma’chello nodded in turn. “Greetings. I assume that Echo has already informed you of your current situation?”
The reply was straightforward. “Yes.”
“Then we’d like to make a deal with you.” Ma'chello replied in turn.
The response was silence, which Ma’chello had...