Discord Name: DisgruntledLemming#3167
Name and House: Urrithon Blacktyde
Age: 28
Cultural Group: Ironborn
Appearance: A large man, standing easily over 6 foot tall, braided with muscle, Urrithon has long blonde hair, stained from years at sea with his crew. A blonde beard adorns his face and neck, his scarred body showing no signs of slowing down after many fights at sea.
Gift(s): Berserker
Skill(s): Sailing, Daggers, Drinkmaster
Negative Trait: Nada
Starting Title(s): Lordof House Blacktyde, Captain of Ocean's Wisdom
Starting Location: Pyke, the War Council
Alternate Characters: Ragwyle Paleshade ( /u/LemmingRoleplay1 ), Meric Wylde ( /u/Danglinglad )
Biography
Urrithon was born in the year 347 AC, a blonde young boy in contrast to the darkness of his older brother Urradon. Their father, Theon Blacktyde, a man of few words and fewer accomplishments instilled in them the Old Ways, rejecting the New Ways as just another passing motion. Thus he began to train his son Urrithon in the weapon arts of the Ironborn, though Urri was too small to wield an axe. After many years of trying to get Urri to wield an axe, he settled for the daggersthat Urri would become known for. He was an expert marksman with them, as well as a skilled fighter when he drew them, knowing he would have to get close to his opponents. He was a berserker on the battlefield, having raided countless smaller settlements being able to sail in quickly and quietly, before surprising his opponents with his reaver tactics.
After many moons at sea, he began to brew his own drinks, being able to taste the finer delicacies of the drinks at hand. This would be a fine skill for him to have, avoiding several attempts at poisoning by his thralls, though his crew would kill them for their ignorance. In the year 370 AC, he was given the ship Ocean’s Wisdom from his father, who passed shortly after that. His brothers, Sigfryied and Urradon were saddened at this death, but Urri knew it was just the Drowned God claiming what was always his. His life belonged to the Drowned One, and he fought as though he wished to be in the Watery Halls of his God more often than not. Urradon, despite being the eldest son, wished to take the mottled robes.
RECENT HISTORY
With the chaos of the Ironborn Civil War and its immediate aftermath, Ur
Isn't he usually more well-versed in understanding the strength and weaknesses of those under him and predicting what they will probably do? I feel that if Thrawn gave Konstantin a ISD then maybe the fleet lose 1 ISD but prob preserve 1 Interdictor and so prevent the Rebels from being able to run even after the Bendu helps them to escape from the surface to space....
thoughts?
(Spoilers for Picard through to episode 6 below.)
Recently visiting AO3, I came across a well-written short story, "The Daughter of Paradise" by BobRussellFan. It is a very good story, a narrative that imagines Naomi Wildman as she grows up and begins to wonder about the anomalies, personal and cosmic, in the mission of Voyager. One of these was the question of what, exactly, had happened in the timeline of the Admiral Janeway who travelled back from 2404 to 2378 to help Voyager take a shortcut home.
>[Janeway] was a god to you when you were a child, the stern-but-smiling authority figure that everyone deferred to, even your mother, the one whose decisions always saved the day when things got bad. There was a time when you would have defended her to your last breath - even that last great trick, that endrun around the laws of time and space that brought you safely home to Earth in time to grow up on a planet rather than on a ship.
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>It’s not until you watch Mars burn, and then Romulus, that it occurs to you (with a nagging voice in the back of your head) that surely Admiral Janeway (the other one, slim and severe, ready to die rather than live with what she'd done) must have known about this. Did she love you so much she was willing to let all those people die? You suggest that to the Admiral, your admiral, and she admits frankly to you (as she never would to anyone else) that she wonders that herself. Then there’s the other unsettling possibility - that it was _you_, or your ship, something in your return that brought all this to the Alpha Quadrant with you.
I could, perhaps, see a case for Admiral Janeway not bothering to tell anyone of the great traumas of the 2380s to come. Perhaps she wanted to make a single change, something that would not have potential sweeping ramifications like (say) enabling a more successful evacuation of Romulan worlds. I would think it harsh, but there might be some case for that.
But then, Voyager coming back decades early with early 25th century technology would not be disruptive? The uptime Admiral Janeway clearly had a blind spot. Beyond that, her decision to infect the Borg with a neurolytic pathogen that would collapse that civilization's transwarp hub and cause some degree of heavy damage to this galactic civilization is something that would have almost surely had a vaster effect on the galaxy than a few billion more Romulans surviving.
All
... keep reading on reddit ➡I've noticed that we have two completely separate perceptions of the "Admirals" and "Yonkou"-level characters over the two eras that we have witnessed. I think everyone is in agreement that the previous gen Admiral-level marines, Garp and Sengoku, were equal to the Yonkou/Great Pirates of their era such as Whitebeard, Roger, and Shiki.
But now it seems like the general perception is that the current generation of top Marines (Akainu, Aokiji, Kizaru, Fujitora, etc) are all weaker than the Great Pirates/Yonkou of this era. So exactly what happened here? And why did the perception change like that?
I personally think it's because 3 out of the 4 original Yonkou were introduced to us as inhuman beings even by One Piece standards. Big Mom was able to one-shot a giant at the age of 5! Kaido can jump off an island in the sky and survive. Whitebeard is the strongest man in the world and has the ability to destroy the world. Even the newcomer, Teach has an abnormal body and ridiculous durability. Shanks is the only "normal" one among them and by normal I mean he can still get his arm chewed off by a sea king if he's not careful. I doubt he was able to kill giants at the age of five either. But it doesn't matter because he stands equally among these monsters and therefore we consider him an equal to the rest of them.
I think this is why in this community in general the Admirals are viewed as weaker, because they weren't portrayed as absolute abnormal monsters like the Yonkou. Aokiji, Akainu, and Kizaru all seem like normal people who enlisted in the marines and made it to the pinnacle of their organization. Rather than being born monsters, they were created due to their own hard work and talent. So similar to Shanks, they are all "normal" and we see that in certain scenes, like when Aokiji took a hit from Jozu and started to bleed. AFAIK, Jozu completely caught Aokiji off-guard. In comparison, I doubt Jozu could have even pierced BM's skin if he tried the same thing with her.
In my opinion, this doesn't make the Admirals any less dangerous and they are definitely not weaker in any sense. In the end, we still saw Akainu take on the world's strongest man in his full anger and survive. I know many make the argument that WB was sick and old but this was right after Ace had died. He was at his full strength and rage when he attacked Akainu and while he destroyed MF's foundations he couldn't do anything to Akainu himself. Aokiji is just as insane considering he man
... keep reading on reddit ➡
Rewatching the battle of Endor, I couldn’t help but imagine how hard it was for Ackbar to accept the high risk orders of Lando Calrissian in the heat of one of (if not) the biggest battle of the Galactic Civil War.
Putting yourself in his shoes. What would you have done? This question may be a bit hard to answer than most cause we already have a confirmation bias of what happened.
Try your best to eliminate this bias from your answer and explain why you would have or not agreed with Calrissian in this crucial moment. Look forward to your answers!
Edit: Thank you everyone for an amazing discussion!
Warrior Culture and Barbaric Despoilers definitely - Based on the description of the unique government types you get when you take those Civics, you'd expect the ruler to be culturally obligated to go out into battle and get their hands dirty with the other warriors. Possibly Feudal Society as well, since the military obligations of the nobility were a big part of the Feudal Contract, and in the IRL Middle Ages a lot of rulers personally commanded their troops in battle. (I think. That's the impression most pop-fiction about the Middle Ages gives me, including CK2, but those are far from trustworthy sources for obvious reasons.)
I don't know anything about coding, but seeing as that the game can handle the Great Khan commanding a fleet while also leading the Khanate, I'm pretty sure this would be possible. I'm less sure whether a leader can both govern a sector and command a fleet, but there's a whole bunch of posts on this sub about a single scientist leading all three science divisions at once, and I assume it would be possible to consistently replicate what causes that bug intentionally? Alternatively, perhaps it's actually more realistic that a leader would have to temporarily leave their post as governor when they're sent off to command the troops, although from a gameplay perspective that'd be unpleasantly micro-heavy, and the penalties for having your sectors ungoverned while at war might unweigh the benefits of not needing to hire dedicated Admirals.
The only reason they bring up this excuse is so they could try to stop us from complaining about the fact that Admiral Ackbar was pointlessly killed off after spending less than a minute on-screen in The Last Jedi so they could shoehorn Holdo.
I was the driver of the red toyota. You were so kind. You offered me hugs, and support, and above all, it was just nice to have someone stand there with me because that was my first car accident and I was SO scared. I also appreciated that you wouldn't allow the guy and his buddy from the other vehicle to talk to me and asked them to speak to the attending police officers instead. I was pretty shook and don't feel like I gave you a decent thank you, but wanted to say that it was really awesome to have you, a kind stranger, there to support me yesterday afternoon.
