12-18-2021, 08:15:32 AM
Current results of the plans:
Pinky and The Brain's plan goes ahead. Biometric locks are expensive, but they work well enough to keep unauthorized people out of the cockpits, and making the classes in question badly taught beyond belief is a good idea. Lanthanide says what she always says when she approves of an illegal action when the black-market arbitrage gets her decent quality groceries. "Ah'm not allowed to endorse this at all."
Eridan's plan starts off well. Employing security guards works. People are all too happy to oppress others, even if it isn't in their best interests to do so. Though the guards do sometimes tase the teamsters for no reason at all. Swapping out the textbooks for the propaganda-rich ones and generally delaying the curriculum changes is a good stalling tactic that could theoretically hold back the problems forever. However, Alliance Products are all Alliance Branded. There is no knockoff brand to buy, so Eridan only just scrapes by with enough ration-card left to buy himself a six pound can of whole-kernel hominy, which will have to last him the week.
George has a cunning plan indeed. Disabling the obvious routes into the cockpit and having the pilots enter through a maintenance port makes it difficult for people who don't already work on mechanic crews to get into the ship uninvited, which was the goal. Creating an accidental youth cultural movement against the new curriculum was an amazing idea, though it does seem to have started a street gang. They forget the promise of a bribe, instead going around attacking "Disloyalists". The curriculum is permanently stalled out by this new pro-Alliance youth movement. Though unfortunately, the charity scam falls through pretty quickly. The Alliance has been generally careful to keep disposable income and resources low, and so George walks away with mostly expired canned goods and a bag filled with complimentary bread from the only restaurant that offers it, rapidly going stale due to not being packaged.
Askua's plan is interesting, but ultimately falls flat in a few places. The giant robot is intimidating enough to keep anyone trying to escape or steal the craft away, but it's also a massive hazard for teamster vehicles, which constantly have to swerve around it. It also can't monitor the whole loading dock at once. The problem has become an entirely different one. The plan to force students to learn at gunpoint completely failed. The new curriculum was learned VERY well at gunpoint, and those educated with it now have even more reason to try to flee. Bilking other people out of food is tricky, but Asuka does manage it to a masterful extent, with a comment about inside tracks at underground betting rings known "only by the mayor". Ultimately, Asuka walks off with enough fraudulently obtained weekly ration cards that Lanthanide gets her groceries twice over and Asuka can also eat.
Mickey's plan starts off weak. The passport system and line system significantly slow down loading times, though barring the door does work well enough. The new education idea of stripping down all the education into absurd stereotypes and oversimplified messages works quite well though. People are taught to think the other nations deeply stupid, and there's so little detail in the lessons that it's not enough to escape with. But trying to give Ersatz food to Lanthanide just gets him what would presumably be a glare, if Lanthanide had a face to speak of.
Pinky and The Brain's plan goes ahead. Biometric locks are expensive, but they work well enough to keep unauthorized people out of the cockpits, and making the classes in question badly taught beyond belief is a good idea. Lanthanide says what she always says when she approves of an illegal action when the black-market arbitrage gets her decent quality groceries. "Ah'm not allowed to endorse this at all."
Eridan's plan starts off well. Employing security guards works. People are all too happy to oppress others, even if it isn't in their best interests to do so. Though the guards do sometimes tase the teamsters for no reason at all. Swapping out the textbooks for the propaganda-rich ones and generally delaying the curriculum changes is a good stalling tactic that could theoretically hold back the problems forever. However, Alliance Products are all Alliance Branded. There is no knockoff brand to buy, so Eridan only just scrapes by with enough ration-card left to buy himself a six pound can of whole-kernel hominy, which will have to last him the week.
George has a cunning plan indeed. Disabling the obvious routes into the cockpit and having the pilots enter through a maintenance port makes it difficult for people who don't already work on mechanic crews to get into the ship uninvited, which was the goal. Creating an accidental youth cultural movement against the new curriculum was an amazing idea, though it does seem to have started a street gang. They forget the promise of a bribe, instead going around attacking "Disloyalists". The curriculum is permanently stalled out by this new pro-Alliance youth movement. Though unfortunately, the charity scam falls through pretty quickly. The Alliance has been generally careful to keep disposable income and resources low, and so George walks away with mostly expired canned goods and a bag filled with complimentary bread from the only restaurant that offers it, rapidly going stale due to not being packaged.
Askua's plan is interesting, but ultimately falls flat in a few places. The giant robot is intimidating enough to keep anyone trying to escape or steal the craft away, but it's also a massive hazard for teamster vehicles, which constantly have to swerve around it. It also can't monitor the whole loading dock at once. The problem has become an entirely different one. The plan to force students to learn at gunpoint completely failed. The new curriculum was learned VERY well at gunpoint, and those educated with it now have even more reason to try to flee. Bilking other people out of food is tricky, but Asuka does manage it to a masterful extent, with a comment about inside tracks at underground betting rings known "only by the mayor". Ultimately, Asuka walks off with enough fraudulently obtained weekly ration cards that Lanthanide gets her groceries twice over and Asuka can also eat.
Mickey's plan starts off weak. The passport system and line system significantly slow down loading times, though barring the door does work well enough. The new education idea of stripping down all the education into absurd stereotypes and oversimplified messages works quite well though. People are taught to think the other nations deeply stupid, and there's so little detail in the lessons that it's not enough to escape with. But trying to give Ersatz food to Lanthanide just gets him what would presumably be a glare, if Lanthanide had a face to speak of.
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