Phantoms

[reavengitair]

Phantoms are being that I generally accept as a fact of disco. Thyre just like any other faction.

[jimmy Patterson]

Didn't make sense or "too long; didn't read"?

Either way, I'll see if I can give you a tl;dr summary.

There's a giant empire run by a species called the Crathygtan. They want to create a utopia, life for all without strife. They want to achieve this through total domination. This domination is enforced by the "enlightenment" process. It is a medical procedure that cannot be reversed, really. Phantoms are all "enlightened." They are tasked with weakening the Houses so that the military infrastructure can be compromised enough to "enlighten" whoever's left.

Imagine it. No more war. No more fighting. All under the Crathygtan flag!

'Course, you'd never hear a Phantom admit it directly...

uh huh the day i become a drone is the day i simultaniously kill off all my charcters and quit the mod i enjoy my free will

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kudos tommeh for sig

[Benjamin]

If I get in to the phantoms do I become an admin?????//


p.s. can i fly the spyglass and zoner whale

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Join Cryer Pharmaceuticals

[n00bl3t]

If I get in to the phantoms do I become an admin?????//
p.s. can i fly the spyglass and zoner whale

I have to admit the thought that goes into posts which carry a sarcastic undertone of "I am Admin now?" are just as constructive.

Eh. One day perhaps people will learn to ask why people think of the Phantoms the way they do, if they Phantoms follow the same set of rules as everyone else.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[Kambei]

sarcasm is imo best way how to deal with them in game;)

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[Guadalupe]

Phantoms are like girl scouts. Spread the love and sell you good cookies.

And they smeer boogers in yer cookies, just like real girl scouts.

The Keepers get the same kind of words chucked at them as well, although infact they have a policy of generally not being agressive.

Actually, Karlotta was never aggressive in a pvp sense either. Its a 99.9% RP character.

[me_b_kevin]

Mon'Star's a cheap knock-off. (No offense, Drey >_>)
We were here first.

BLASPHEMY!!!!!

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Mon'Star the Red- Rated "R" : http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3224
Aboard the Necrosis- Rated "E": http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3313

[CCI45-px/Probe149]

Have any of you ever tried talking from a distance rather than shooting?

No. Because I've never seen any of you online:P

And Drey is right with his statement.

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In a brilliant tactical movement, i charged backwards.

[Thurgret]

I've only ever once seen a Phantom. He disrupted a trade lane, stopped a trader and said something like 'Tell me why I shouldn't kill you.' I'm not certain on what happened then. I think he shot the trader.

I looked at the wiki, was put off by the 'borrowed' name, and was not at all keen on the concept as a whole. It doesn't seem to fit in properly with everything in the rest of the game.

[farmerman]

Have any of you ever tried talking from a distance rather than shooting?

I've got to say, whenever I've tried that, it didn't work.

As I've said before, I think a lot of the problems are related to the fact that there is no actual ingame connection between the Phantoms and the Discoverse. Sure, they have a pair of bases, but what else? If they're so powerful, why isn't there even a single mention of them or even the wreckage of a base? That's the first thing that needs to get addressed.

The other thing is, of course, the fact the diplomacy seems very wacky. If it didn't stand out, a lot of the complaints about the Phantoms standing out in a negative way would be affected. To be more specific, if someone proposed a faction right now with the same diplomacy, would it be accepted or flamed?

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