Posted on 09/24/2002 7:55:52 PM PDT by moneyrunner
Lousy story. We never did find out what happened to the Anu'udrian mother ship...
Poorly armed Americans, foaming at the mouth to avenge their slaughtered fellow citizens (even the stupid ones), managed to repulse the Anu'udrians while taking enormous casualties.
10 years later, a 138 mile diameter nickel-iron asteroid finished a braking manuver, falling into the gravity well of the Anu'udrian binary system with 38 Vengence class star carriers, 70 Punishment class star battleships and innumerable support vessels.
Over a period of 8 years the force conducted a moon hopping campaign which isolated the outer worlds and ended with the Siege of the Anu'udrian homeworld.
After fierce resistance, with Anu'udrian lower caste sacrifice warriors even resisting with centuries old kinetic energy weapons, the Anu'udrian prime egg bearer submitted the race when the 3rd moon, Bithrip, was destroyed with its 3.5 billion inhabitants by the newly developed quantum interference bomb.
After an occupation of 15 years, along with a massive rebuilding campaign, the Anu'udrian race is a staunch ally of ours against the machine beings of the Tatheel 5 system.
One of the byproducts of the rebuilding was that Anu'udrian businesses have, for the most part, lower costs and higher productivity due to the more modern nature of their nanofabricators, and THAT, children, is why we're flooded with all these cheap Anu'udrian Ba'a'nith players...
You people are sick, he said as he slowly picked himself up floor.
OTFLMAO.
I generally agree with the "no profanity" policy, and yes, I recognize that it's not my machines and FR can do whatever it wants.
But in this case, I think the policy is misapplied. The purpose of having this policy, it's always been my impression (and correct me if I'm wrong) is to keep the discussion here civil and away from personal attacks.
In this case, the profanity in question (which was *ster*sk*ed out in the other thread) is a part of the story, and really doesn't take an any more of an offensive tone, I think, than the story itself. Considering that the two threads combined had about 80 replies between them, and no one seemed to be complaining, this ruling doesn't seem to have served us well. Personally, I think this is one of the funniest posts I've ever seen here.
Again, it's not my servers, so the moderators can do what they want. But I'm one of the people a bit concerned with the frequency of thread-pulling lately (I've seen some other ones that I thought were quite questionable), so I wanted to make the case here for one that was but I don't think should have been.
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