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[warandpeace]

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Maybe it's that I'm a perfectionist, but I don't like us handing this job with the hunters off to someone else. I don't know whether it's a matter of diplomatic neutrality or what, which is what I suspect. It just... My men are trained in non-lethal take-downs. With the skill sets available on board, the numbers, I think it would be relatively simple to render the entire stock of hunters unconscious and have them transported off the planet.

No casualties. Quick. Clean. I've seen other people on board in action, ones I didn't train, both in the simulation room and out in the wild. They're good. The mercenaries could take up protection work after the fact. But honestly, lowest damage possible scenario, I would trust to us.

Yeah. Doesn't sit right. [Not the mission itself. Having the hunters driven out? Fine. Giving up ship expenses and valuables to pay for what they could very easily do themselves? That gives him a lot of pause.]

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[sidecars]

Yeah! Why're we givin' em our stuff when we can do the job for free?

[warandpeace]

It's not that difficult a challenge to rise to.

No less than six people on this ship right now have the ability to empty an entire base on their own minus any sort of firearm and using complete stealth. We have several individuals of incredible strength that can destroy usable hunting equipment with their bare hands. We have people that can use various levels of mind-control.

Our people are very good. I don't know anything about these guys.

[sidecars]

..... Am I included in any of that grand standing, or?

[ Because Bucky can't really tell. He's clearly not part of the super humans, and Miller has never seen him in actual combat. He's just that one PFC that's kinda in the Army? Yeah. ]

[warandpeace]

I haven't seen you in combat. I'm referring to the people I've seen either in actual or simulated action excelling at those tasks. But I know they're not the only ones.

Don't worry. I don't doubt you can handle yourself, Jim. You've lived as a part of the military your whole life, and I wouldn't knock your potential for skill knowing that.

[sidecars]

'kay, good. 'Cause I wanna help! Not gonna let people give away their things to appease some middlemen...

[warandpeace]

Can't do anything unless the captains give say so. All I can say is that I'm sure we could do it.

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[ersatzeverything]

I've gotta agree. I'd like to find a peaceful solution, but if we're going to do this we should do it ourselves, take responsibility and control how we do it and how far we're willing to go. If we leave it to the mercenaries things could get out of hand.

If we can do it without casualties, I'm totally up for it.

[And if they do decide to do it...]

I could go down to the planet in advance, scope out the place and bring back detailed intel for your team.

[sidecars]

Well then let's help petition!

[ Look at this face. This is a face that can help get signatures, man. ]

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[saveyourserpent]

So, essentially, you want people to go down, tranq all the hunters, and send them away before they wake up?

...

Boring, but I suppose it's no less boring than paying a bunch of people in random trinkets.

And when they wake up, head back to where they were, and go right back to what they were doing?

[Because that's what people do after they wake up after being tranqed, right?]

[warandpeace]

The idea is to use restraints and transport them off the planet on their own ships, because we also have competent ship pilots. Then the mercs could guard the planet from the outside.

Payment wouldn't have to be so immediate. If anything, we could use what was left on the planet to cover anything initial.

[warandpeace]

Didn't know you were good with Intel. You might want to talk with Ocelot sometime. If you can tolerate him.

[He says as if he's not been tolerating him.]

But yeah, solid maps and marked non-crew would be a good idea anyway.

[warandpeace]

I'm not even against paying the mercs to maintain protection. From the outside. It's a matter of trust.

I haven't asked them about it yet.

[saveyourserpent]

I do suppose they'd be leaving behind plenty of valuables. A whole bloody planet full of them, ripe for the taking. No reason for them to come back with their tails between their legs.

...Wonder what piloting a spaceship's like.

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[trap_factory]

[Why is he typing a response when a verbal one would be better suited to this, no one knows. But considering cardboard boxes are the de facto stealth item back on Mother Base, this is probably a lot easier to explain]

mentioned this to someone else a week ago... my assigned job is sort of defunct in the face of all these armed and dangerous personnel we have. and i'm not exactly fond of the idea of meddling with the natural order of things either.
[/joke]

though... lowest damage possible scenario sounds like wishful thinking, based on the track record the crew has so far.

[ersatzeverything]

Yeah...uh...info stuff is cool. It's like a hobby.

[His desire to lie and walk back what he'd just admitted wars with a rising professional focus with a possible mission looming.]

Maps and markers. Can do. I can probably get intel on some of the hunters themselves, too. Like, who might have had combat training, who walks around armed and who doesn't, that kind of thing. [Get the right kind of clothes and slip in among them and just gossip for a few hours and see what useful bits of information they might reveal.]

[warandpeace]

The crew has new people. More skills. More abilities. Greater numbers with different experiences to reference.

The track record of the past doesn't necessarily mean it would stand.

Natural order, though. Not really. Just call it money. That's what it is. They're hunting for money. Now we're considering hiring people to hunt for money. But if we must do it, I'd rather do it this way, at least there would be some reliability.

[warandpeace]

Like a hobby. Yeah.

To be honest, I think some intel in general would help a lot. Anything we can find. But then again, I like knowing what situation we're in.

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[bloodbinds]

Whatever you're intending to do, count me in. We don't need to kill these people, but--

[ But what they're doing is murder. Ava wants them gone. ]

I want to help.

[trap_factory]

you're the strategizing sort, aren't you?

it doesn't mean it will stand, but it certainly doesn't support the narrative you're trying to spin, does it? it's difficult to ignore the talk of how this crew has apparently left a wake of destruction behind it.

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you're right! if we're going to destroy the planet by interfering where we're not wanted, then we shouldn't involve outside parties. or, well, any more outside parties than necessary. especially if we're such a reliable group.

[ersatzeverything]

[Totally like a hobby. Well, he spends all his time doing it and doesn't get paid for it because the Railroad is a Cause, not a business, so...yeah.]

I'll get ready to go. If the mission doesn't go off, no harm no foul. [And he'll have gotten some practice in to keep his game up, so he wouldn't consider it wasted time.] And if it does, it'll be one step already complete, make it easy for the heavies to move in faster.

[warandpeace]

The last planet wasn't destroyed. We were framed, and exfiltrated the planet without loss of life on our part.

Strategizing worked better than you might think.

[warandpeace]

Thanks. If we were to get the go ahead, I think we could do it.

And honestly, no matter what we do, it's on our head now. We hire the mercenaries and they fuck up, it's still us. We leave these people behind to suffer, tell them that its their fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, then that's on us too. We do something to stop this ourselves? At least the results would be within our control.

[He didn't intend to fight for a greater good, rock the boat. He's learned not to care much about it. But now he has reasons.]

[warandpeace]

And with their equipment and temporaries damaged beyond repair, not much reason to come back.

Hell if I know. So far I've never even ridden in a smaller spacecraft. But there are people here who can, and have access to craft.

[trap_factory]

[... military man?]

so is that what happened? the way people were talking about that primary place, it seemed far worse. i suppose it's easier to frame strangers than to try and straight up accuse them of crimes. different worlds, same deal.

[saveyourserpent]

Of course, that's not to say nothing'll happen in the future, but we'll be long gone by then.

[Missing the point a little. He tried.]

I might have to look into that.

[He misses piloting things.]