' Wrote:The Hessians are on the front lines against the Wild. They aren't likely to be fond of squishy freaks at all.
We love you too.
Anyhoo, it seems that I need to once more remind everyone something about the Nomad military strength. Why don't the Nomads go in and crush the Outcasts for the advantage that is cardamine (which with the Nomads fully controlling it, that would be a very scary advantage)? Because they can't. They took a massive beating from the hypergate activation, and the Wild aren't doing too spiffy either after the battles of Sigma-13 and Omicron Lost. Going a little more iffy here, how many Nomad NPCs have been farmed? It probably numbers in the millions. Hell, Jinx's Zoners have captured thousands and that's just one player. Now, I'm going to go with the usual assumption that NPC cap patrols are more or less bogus (Rheinland has 14 battleships, if I remember correctly... more than that dive into NB daily) the Nomads still don't have that much in the way of hitting power. Defensively they can keep people from reporting, thanks to radiation and such (which heals or at least doesn't hurt the Nomads inRP) but a concentrated attack from any military-type faction and they've got a real fight... add another one or two and bye bye Slomon K'Hara.
The Nomads know this. They aren't complete morons, they're a very advanced species. They are royally miffed that humanity is in their turf, but they aren't going to get themselves killed off in a vane attempt. They have a very powerful strength, that of infestation, and they play that strength because they can't play the brute force card. Plus, think of it this way- Liberty, since it maintains enough of a Navy to whomp any other house four-times over (read rumors on Manhattan), could almost certainly stomp the Nomad fleet if they flew out there and fought a good pitched battle. Why haven't they? Because the Nomads are far off, a looming danger, not an imminent nightmare. Liberty has better things to do. By preparing and infiltrating, they keep that guise of 'oh they aren't a threat now' until it is too late. They found something in the Outcasts- a culture that revered them as protectors, which at the very least keeps them out of the 'enemy' pool if the Nomads keep up the charade. Yes, the Nomads would gladly kill off the Outcasts if it was in their best interests. But it isn't. It's a way in, a foot in the door. Provide a service here and there, give reminders to the new generation that this treatment pays off, and the Nomads can turn the Orange Dream into a purple-tinted Orange Dream. If the Outcasts "win" by getting everyone addicted to cardamine, the Nomads will probably make a play for direct control of the Outcasts and thus humanity, or just torch Malta and wait a year, making surgical strikes on anything that gets close to making breakthroughs. Speaking of such, I need to launch another Wild raid on Cambridge Research Institute next weekend...
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