I’ll have to give it another listen, but the entire album is the
story of “Pink’ and his fall into madness. That song was set
in the time during the London Blitz. “The Wall” is the mental
wall he built around his mind to protect himself, and it was
broken due to the fact he called his wife and a man answered,
twice. Watch the movie based on the music, it explains much.
Ok. I’m still hearing “Look, Mommy, there’s an
aeroplane up in the sky” …
The kid’s slurring pretty badly, tho.
Like “There’s’n-naeroplane upin the sky”
But if you listen to the background –
you can here those bomber engines approaching
(clearly some large darkly humming propeller
driven aircraft, at least).
Also that fits way better to the the lyrics
which follow immediately after.
I hear a naive little kid fascinated with what he has
yet learn to fear, you hear a kid that’s relieved for the
short moment of peace between two air-raids.
I love the call signs! So Sally is a newsie? Could be good or bad,
depends on what kind she is, a true reporter or a ratings monger.
Yeah, I figured he was going to go down the “bribe’ route,
I’m a bit surprised he didn’t ask for one, but that might still
happen. It is a sweet deal, to be the first to get the benefits
of low shipping costs without excessive taxation.
There is also the question if she is bluffing in how
prepared they are. Of course only someone completely
crazy would try a bluff on that scale.
Of course the incentives are much more far reaching than
these 5 freighters. Win or loose, it is likely that the
other 7 Core Worlds will loose some of their freighters
during the war, and considering that everyone will want
to lease freighters from the Empire, there will be a
waiting list. To rebuild the Core Worlds on the loosing
side need to buy freight space wherever they can and if
your Core World was neutral, you have freight space to
sell at a very high price. On top of that, the Fringe
Worlds will start building a stellar industry of their
own. Just to keep up the Core Worlds will have to do the same.
So the question is not if one of the Core Worlds breaks rank,
but when. Sooner or later the other Core Worlds will come to
a similar conclusion. Ser Slinom can give his people a head
start in the considerations, but as soon as this offer gets
out, the others will hit on the idea that the Empire is
prepared for the conflict and they are not.
This offer is pure evil. Now the Core Worlds will have to
consider the possibility that they might loose this conflict.
I love it.
She did say lease, not sell. And I feel she means those freighters
will only carry the items, not be manned by the leaser. That way
their tech is safe and IMM has control over what is shipped, if
they want to arm a planet. they will have to carry it themselves.
My wording was a little confused.
After the war the Fringe Worlds will probably lease all the freighters
the Empire can lease out. At least for a while I’m guessing that there
will be a waiting list.
But the Core World that stayed neutral, can not only lease 5 freighters
from the Empire, but their own ships will all be intact. So they can
transport goods for anyone willing to pay the astronomic prices.
And considering what we have seen? The loosing Core Worlds will
need every bit of freight space they can get their hands on no matter
the cost Not only need they to rebuild their fleet, but they also need
ships to build their own in-system infrastructure.
Ships the Core Worlds on the loosing side no longer have.
The part about the question not being if someone breaks but
when – that is in essence the classical dilemma.
Each of the accused knows that the first one to make deal will
get the softest punishment.
And they each know, that the police won’t stop until one of them
breaks.
That aside, the offer is cunning, yes.
But pure evil? No. She’s offering them a way to cut their losses.
She might even indicated (a few panels back) that the
Empire doesn’t necessarily seek the conflict.
So Mr. Sharkhead has three options:
stay with the rest of the Core,
calling her bluff if you will.
Or he could take her up on her offer.
He might even tell her they’d be open for
negotiations on some level or the other.
The thing with the prisoner’s dilemma is if both stay true to each other.
Here we have the suggestion that the Empire will win anyway. No
matter what the prisoners do. If she is not bluffing, one Core World
staying neutral might not change the war that much.
If that is the case, it suddenly becomes a question of what is going
to happen after the war. The Core Worlds already lost the Dogusians
as ground troops and the Empire doesn’t have the capability to
land troops to conquer other worlds. So the war might be over when
one side does or threatens orbital bombardment.
So everything comes down to ships. Who wins in space? And if the
Empire is as prepared as she says?
Of course she claims to win either way. But does that
mean Ol’ Slimy has to buy it?
… actually that’s still pretty much the situation of suspect ./. police.
I’m rather sure that they’d also claim “we’ll get your sorry ass into jail
anyway, and you know it”
In my experience it is much easier to bluff when you’re
holding a pat hand. The Empire has had ample opportunity to observe
Xanadu space tech. The core worlds have not had similar opportunities.
If Slinom has any brains in that oddly shaped head he will realize
how poor his hand truly is. One hopes he’ll understand that his
people and the other Core Worlders have already lost and his best
bet will be to cut as good a deal for his world as possible.
“Who judges when ‘decided’ happens?”
My bet would be the Empire. They’re the ones with the pat hand. I
have trouble believing the core worlds’ economies are so shaky that
effective competition will truly be devastating. Enormously painful,
very possibly, but not devastating. I suspect it will be the fat
cats at the top of the heap on those worlds – primarily business
folk reaping obscene profits from their monopolistic tactics and
politicians in the pockets of said merchants – who will be the most
affected. When you go from obscene profit margins to more reasonable
margins it hurts but the best business folk will recover and –
eventually – prosper. The ones I feel for on the core worlds are the
common folk, the rank and file. Their cost of living is going to
skyrocket. But there is no helping that.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
now all we need for “Teaser and Firecat” , is a “Moonshadow”.
Good Lawd, I haven’t heard that song in ages!
Not even sure if I remember them…
Cat Stevens’ work disappeared from most airwaves for about 10 years after he made some unfortunate political and religious statements.
“Moonshadow” and “The Wind” are flying high guard.
And where is “Peace Train”?
Overhead.
“I’m glidin’ in the beautiful sky,
It’s such a clear day.”
Come Fly Away
Benny Benassi, Channing
Does anybody remember that song by Pink Floyd,
that started with a little child saying
something like
“Look Mommy, there’s an aeroplane in the sky”?
I know it, I used to have the album,
I think it was “clear blue sky”
but I might be wrong.
It’s been years and years ago.
And I think it was “Look mommy, there’s no aeroplane up in the sky”
It was “Good bye blue sky” from “The Wall” and it definitely was
“There’s AN aeroplane up in the sky”.
(The song sounds like somebod’s childhood memory of an air
raid, at least in part)
I’ll have to give it another listen, but the entire album is the
story of “Pink’ and his fall into madness. That song was set
in the time during the London Blitz. “The Wall” is the mental
wall he built around his mind to protect himself, and it was
broken due to the fact he called his wife and a man answered,
twice. Watch the movie based on the music, it explains much.
Exactly. That bombing is “just another brick in the wall” for him.
(And if you remember the movie – you might recall the piece
of it to the song “Good-bye blue sky.”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6YnUt4Vuk
He does say “there’s no plane”
Ok. I’m still hearing “Look, Mommy, there’s an
aeroplane up in the sky” …
The kid’s slurring pretty badly, tho.
Like “There’s’n-naeroplane upin the sky”
But if you listen to the background –
you can here those bomber engines approaching
(clearly some large darkly humming propeller
driven aircraft, at least).
Also that fits way better to the the lyrics
which follow immediately after.
On 2nd thought it makes sense either way.
I hear a naive little kid fascinated with what he has
yet learn to fear, you hear a kid that’s relieved for the
short moment of peace between two air-raids.
I love the call signs! So Sally is a newsie? Could be good or bad,
depends on what kind she is, a true reporter or a ratings monger.
Yeah, I figured he was going to go down the “bribe’ route,
I’m a bit surprised he didn’t ask for one, but that might still
happen. It is a sweet deal, to be the first to get the benefits
of low shipping costs without excessive taxation.
I loved that album. Still have the original vinyl.
Vairation on the classical “Prisoner Dilemma”.
If all of them stayed “true” to each other they might win.
But the first to break the front does get an advantage,
and the remaining ones are punished.
There is also the question if she is bluffing in how
prepared they are. Of course only someone completely
crazy would try a bluff on that scale.
Of course the incentives are much more far reaching than
these 5 freighters. Win or loose, it is likely that the
other 7 Core Worlds will loose some of their freighters
during the war, and considering that everyone will want
to lease freighters from the Empire, there will be a
waiting list. To rebuild the Core Worlds on the loosing
side need to buy freight space wherever they can and if
your Core World was neutral, you have freight space to
sell at a very high price. On top of that, the Fringe
Worlds will start building a stellar industry of their
own. Just to keep up the Core Worlds will have to do the same.
So the question is not if one of the Core Worlds breaks rank,
but when. Sooner or later the other Core Worlds will come to
a similar conclusion. Ser Slinom can give his people a head
start in the considerations, but as soon as this offer gets
out, the others will hit on the idea that the Empire is
prepared for the conflict and they are not.
This offer is pure evil. Now the Core Worlds will have to
consider the possibility that they might loose this conflict.
I love it.
She did say lease, not sell. And I feel she means those freighters
will only carry the items, not be manned by the leaser. That way
their tech is safe and IMM has control over what is shipped, if
they want to arm a planet. they will have to carry it themselves.
My wording was a little confused.
After the war the Fringe Worlds will probably lease all the freighters
the Empire can lease out. At least for a while I’m guessing that there
will be a waiting list.
But the Core World that stayed neutral, can not only lease 5 freighters
from the Empire, but their own ships will all be intact. So they can
transport goods for anyone willing to pay the astronomic prices.
And considering what we have seen? The loosing Core Worlds will
need every bit of freight space they can get their hands on no matter
the cost Not only need they to rebuild their fleet, but they also need
ships to build their own in-system infrastructure.
Ships the Core Worlds on the loosing side no longer have.
At least for a while.
Could be that they are going to “black box” the tech
so that if you try to open it, it self destructs.
The part about the question not being if someone breaks but
when – that is in essence the classical dilemma.
Each of the accused knows that the first one to make deal will
get the softest punishment.
And they each know, that the police won’t stop until one of them
breaks.
That aside, the offer is cunning, yes.
But pure evil? No. She’s offering them a way to cut their losses.
She might even indicated (a few panels back) that the
Empire doesn’t necessarily seek the conflict.
So Mr. Sharkhead has three options:
stay with the rest of the Core,
calling her bluff if you will.
Or he could take her up on her offer.
He might even tell her they’d be open for
negotiations on some level or the other.
The thing with the prisoner’s dilemma is if both stay true to each other.
Here we have the suggestion that the Empire will win anyway. No
matter what the prisoners do. If she is not bluffing, one Core World
staying neutral might not change the war that much.
If that is the case, it suddenly becomes a question of what is going
to happen after the war. The Core Worlds already lost the Dogusians
as ground troops and the Empire doesn’t have the capability to
land troops to conquer other worlds. So the war might be over when
one side does or threatens orbital bombardment.
So everything comes down to ships. Who wins in space? And if the
Empire is as prepared as she says?
Of course she claims to win either way. But does that
mean Ol’ Slimy has to buy it?
… actually that’s still pretty much the situation of suspect ./. police.
I’m rather sure that they’d also claim “we’ll get your sorry ass into jail
anyway, and you know it”
In my experience it is much easier to bluff when you’re
holding a pat hand. The Empire has had ample opportunity to observe
Xanadu space tech. The core worlds have not had similar opportunities.
If Slinom has any brains in that oddly shaped head he will realize
how poor his hand truly is. One hopes he’ll understand that his
people and the other Core Worlders have already lost and his best
bet will be to cut as good a deal for his world as possible.
>once this conflict is decided
>neutral world will be able to lease
>first five freighter to be available for lease
Who judges when “decided” happens?
Suspect allies will be getting help during the conflict.
And even after “decided”, allies will continue seniority
preferential treatment before anything is released to
those that were merely “neutral”.
“Who judges when ‘decided’ happens?”
My bet would be the Empire. They’re the ones with the pat hand. I
have trouble believing the core worlds’ economies are so shaky that
effective competition will truly be devastating. Enormously painful,
very possibly, but not devastating. I suspect it will be the fat
cats at the top of the heap on those worlds – primarily business
folk reaping obscene profits from their monopolistic tactics and
politicians in the pockets of said merchants – who will be the most
affected. When you go from obscene profit margins to more reasonable
margins it hurts but the best business folk will recover and –
eventually – prosper. The ones I feel for on the core worlds are the
common folk, the rank and file. Their cost of living is going to
skyrocket. But there is no helping that.
“Make sure you get my good side”
hehehehe Spoken like a true hotshot pilot
I’m willing to bet Firecat IS a cat, would make for an
interesting conversation to say the least.
Sky falling? Ok, I suspected a high velocity kinetic impactor, but WHOA!