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mutinywatch posted:
MUTINY WATCH 33/201/8
Successful mutinies: 0
Failed mutinies: 1
Attempted mutinies: 3
Failed mutiny reportedly led by an Engineer Hosa formerly serving under Chief Hunter Karom. Workers spaced their captain and several high-ranked members of the crew before the ship was shot down over a gas giant. All are presumed dead.
Attempted mutiny reports: [link]
>open comments
updraft: engineers stay winning
hs118fju: @updraft She died. Since when does that count as winning?
updraft: yeah but she killed her captain first. what a way to go out
hs118fju: You’re right. May her glory be eternal.
krakotldisliker: LOL at the second report on the link, my guy actually thought single combat with no weapons would work out well for him. Your mutiny is bad and you should feel bad.
LetMeSleep posted a video:
WATCH: Heroic Arxur Hunter Bravely Runs Away From A Child’s Toy
>open comments
chipped05: Betterment when I ask why we live in a society if we’re not social animals.
cant_choose_one: my parents once i was old enough to hunt on my own
Present: My entire squad on my first assignment to a cattle ship.
krakotldisliker: LOL that guy is so dead.
fishingbot: May his cowardice be eternal.
LetMeSleep: Oh, it will be. Our whole sector has seen it in full already.
updraft: i hacked into our ship’s announcement system to play this so more people can see it
fishingbot: @updraft Rule three.
updraft: it’s not identifying info because i lied
updraft: does your ship have a fucking video announcement system
notamod posted:
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU FUCKERS NEED RULES
Rule 1: Question everything.
Rule 2: Keep those pamphlets circulating.
Rule 3: Only share identifying information if you want to die.
Rule 4: If you report someone to Betterment, you will be reported too.
Rule 5: Stop asking to become a mod. There are no mods.
Rule 6: Act like normal people, not crazed cannibals.
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infoleaks posted:
The stolen scout ship Headless Hunter has been spotted near the borders of sector 7. In a transmission, high-ranking officers were urged to “capture and dispose of the traitor.”
UPDATE: Three ships, including one cattle ship, are out of communication. Safe to say Xauris got to them. Another win for treason.
>open comments
shot_at_dawn: Good for her!
TheAwaited: good for her.
chipped05: Good for her.
Present: Good for her.
updraft: good for her
krakotldisliker: Good for her
LetMeSleep: Good for her.
hs118fju: So-called “free thinkers” when they see piracy
revokedfortreason: Not good for her. Hate seeing someone else living my dream (of piracy) :(
cant_choose_one posted a document:
Technical Sabotage For Idiots
>open comments
cant_choose_one: this pamphlet could not have come into being without the engine specs posted by @infoleaks, credit to you. all weapons info is mine as always.
Present: Nice! The part with the faulty wiring will definitely be useful for me.
hs118fju: What size is the explosion generated with the rifle on page 3?
cant_choose_one: small, mostly shrapnel. overcharging a 5-by-7 creates a bigger explosion if you’re looking for flashy, but it’s not very deadly and the sabotage is too easy to find during a routine equipment check.
shot_at_dawn: Your pamphlets should just be called How To Get Away With Murder (For Engineers)
shot_at_dawn: Or non-engineers, actually.
cant_choose_one: naming the next one “how to get away with murder for idiots”
Present posted:
Mental warfare update! I got our rations management officer in on it too, so it’s going better than ever. It’s so much easier to convince my captain he’s seeing things when I have someone to back me up.
Since the last update I have:
- Remote-keyed the lights in his quarters to mine so I can turn them to full brightness in the middle of his sleep-cycle
- Gotten RMO to dye my rations green and pretended not to see anything wrong with it when he asked
- Convinced him that me and RMO were holding a crucial conversation about battle plans with someone he couldn’t see
- Taped a small speaker to his chair that intermittently plays animal noises (also remote-keyed to me) and pretended not to hear.
I can see his sanity slowly slipping away, and there has never been a more rewarding sight.
>open comments
hs118fju: There is definitely something wrong with your brain, but this is the most entertained I have ever been. Continue to keep us posted until he snaps.
krakotldisliker: And all my RMO can do is spit in your face if you try to ask her anything...
fishingbot: Would you like to write a pamphlet about your methods? Some people (me) might be interested.
Present: Honestly, it’s not too difficult to replicate by yourself. You simply act like they are crazy and imagining things until they start doubting their sanity.
fishingbot: I don’t understand people well enough to do that.
Present: Got it, I’ll compile some tips for you.
mutinywatch posted:
MUTINY WATCH 33/201/16
Successful mutinies: 0
Failed mutinies: 4
Attempted mutinies: 12
Three failed mutinies and seven of the attempted mutinies are from Chief Hunter Arska’s sector. I’d wager to say that people don’t like weak leaders put in their position by Betterment instead of rising through the ranks normally.
The fourth failed mutiny got as far as stealing a cattle ship before they were apprehended. The leader – a Huntleader Thaxol – was executed by Chief Hunter Isif personally.
The other three mutineers’ names are Fayal, Shrika and Kitor.
Compiled reports: [link]
>open comments
chipped05: Disappointing. I could have sworn Chief Hunter Isif was one of ours.
hs118fju: @chipped05 You’re delusional.
hs118fju: Being a Chief Hunter is the opposite of free thinking, you have to be a Betterment puppet to get that far.
fishingbot: What is the difference between a failed and an attempted mutiny?
mutinywatch: @fishingbot A failed mutiny is a mutiny that is put down after it started. An attempted mutiny is a mutiny so badly organized it never even started because the would-be leader has no backing.
fishingbot: Okay. Has there ever been a successful mutiny?
updraft: yeah we’ve got @cant_choose_one, the only wannabe mutineer to successfully start a career in piracy
shot_at_dawn: Wait, is @cant_choose_one actually Xauris? I thought that was a joke.
cant_choose_one: i’m not
updraft: we’re pretty sure she is, she always posts around the time of a Xauris sighting and from the same locations
cant_choose_one: i’m just a fucking border patrol grunt
cant_choose_one: i’m not even female
updraft: oh yes, the legendary “border patrol grunt” with advanced weapons engineering knowledge
updraft: you’re either xauris or a betterment plant
cant_choose_one: skies forbid a guy have hobbies
revokedfortreason posted:
I left a copy of Theory of Conscience in a dropbox on station Caro-7 for anyone who wants it. Password is my username.
>open comments
shot_at_dawn: Update: Pamphlet is no longer there because I took it.
infoleaks posted:
New memo transmitted through the higher echelons of sectors 3-5. They’re hiding evidence of cannibalism in one of Soreth’s reeducation camps again.
>open comments
chipped05: Days since our last cannibalism incident at an internment camp: 0.
LetMeSleep: does that number ever reach three digits?
chipped05: No.
revokedfortreason: I think they should simply stop letting Soreth be in charge of people.
cant_choose_one: i think the prisoners should unify their forces and eat Soreth instead.
krakotldisliker posted:
It’s very entertaining to watch my shipmates get all queasy about eating our Krakotl or Tilfish rations nowadays. “B-but they are technically predators, we can’t eat predators” we literally hunted for nalsya together on Wriss as starving children, I know it’s not eating predators you have a problem with.
>open comments
updraft: southerner spotted
updraft: but what do nalsya taste like, i’ve always been curious
krakotldisliker: Bad. It builds character.
hs118fju: My captain has taken to reciting a list of our historical cattle that were not herbivores. All that has achieved is that now I can hear my shipmates say things such as “but it’s different because they have languages, society, and technology, animals don’t have that”
chipped05: They are so close to getting it.
Present: Wow @hs118fju how many have been executed for that? Talk like that would be considered treason where I am.
hs118fju: @Present None, because my captain is a weakling and an idiot.
updraft: if prey have languages, society, and technology they are animals, but if predators have those, they are people. it’s so logical, isn’t it?
Present: Betterment HATES this one weird trick: forcefeed a Dossur your rations and it becomes a person.
mutinywatch posted:
MUTINY WATCH 33/201/22
Successful mutinies: 0
Failed mutinies: 11
Attempted mutinies: 32
This is definitely a new record. Even the failed mutinies are too many for me to list the names in one post, so they’ll be in the report link.
Special mention goes to whatever the fuck happened in Chief Hunter Shaza’s sector that resulted in her swift removal. The reports are spotty, but as far as I can tell, cannibalism was involved.
Compiled report: [link]
>open comments
krakotldisliker: Us when the war against prey is going better than ever.
revokedfortreason: You have my gratitude for always saying their names. Betterment may erase them but we will remember. May their glory be eternal.
shot_at_dawn: May their memories serve as inspiration.
revokedfortreason: That too.
another posted:
How do you cope with disliking seeing prey suffer? I’m slipping; my superiors have noticed. Are there any like me here who could help?
>open comments
revokedfortreason: Get a job where you don’t come into contact with live prey. Intra-dominion border patrol, customs officer, educator. If you can hide for long enough to pass a screening and have talent, you could even try for Betterment propagandist. Be careful.
krakotldisliker: If you become a Betterment propagandist, we’ll have to kick you off this forum though. It’s the unwritten rule 7.
revokedfortreason: Hey now, people do what they need to survive.
another: @revokedfortreason Those are all jobs in high demand, are they not? What are the odds they would choose me?
chipped05: Betterment be like “we are predators who thrive on causing pain, don’t ask why everyone wants those few jobs where they never have to kill anything”
TheAwaited posted a video:
Chief Hunter Assassinated On Live Camera!
>open comments
Present: Beautiful.
krakotldisliker: I could watch this for hours.
updraft: oh hey i saw this on live feed. it was fucking awesome
updraft: dude was getting ready for a speech and then BAM! we were just watching all aghast. i wanted to cheer.
fishingbot: @updraft Have they figured out who the next Chief Hunter will be?
updraft: idk probably some betterment plant. hope they’ll get assassinated too
shot_at_dawn: I wish I lived in sector 3, you guys always seem to have so much fun.
shot_at_dawn posted:
I want to live in sector 3.
I’d wake up to news of my superior being assassinated on live camera. I’d kill my captain in a mutiny. I’d turn on the leader of the mutiny and kill them too. Then me and my fellow mutineers would get sent to a reeducation camp and cannibalize each other. We’d organize a mutiny at the internment camp, and we’d kill and eat the director. I’d assassinate the remaining leaders on live camera. I’d steal a ship and become a pirate captain. I’d get assassinated on live camera when my crew revolts against me, and then they’d dismember and eat my corpse.
I wish I lived in sector 3.
>open comments
chipped05: Average day in sector 3.
cant_choose_one: sector 3 daily routine; wake up, assassinate a guy, organize a mutiny against another guy, cannibalize a different guy, go to sleep.
updraft: i’d get mad but it’s literally true
updraft: still waiting for the day i’m important enough to get assassinated and then eaten
cant_choose_one: it’s the islander blood. makes them insane.
updraft: hey now, you’re an islander too
cant_choose_one: I’M STILL NOT XAURIS
Present posted:
Anyone ever wonder what Arxur taste like?
>open comments
LetMeSleep: Surprisingly similar to Krakotl, but with a strange metallic aftertaste. The texture is bad though; too tough and hard to chew. Not worth it.
krakotldisliker: ew
Present: …How do you know that?
LetMeSleep: How do you think? I killed and ate a guy once.
Present: I know this is a forum where deranged criminals post about their execution-worthy offenses, and yet I’m still surprised.
cant_choose_one: @LetMeSleep why would you just admit to that
LetMeSleep: Oh, so we can post about eating prey, even though a good amount of you think they’re people, but if I talk about eating Arxur – who are also people – it’s suddenly unacceptable? Hypocrites. I thought this was about challenging what Betterment says.
chipped05: @LetMeSleep rule 6.
LetMeSleep: But what if I am a crazed cannibal? :( Let me be myself.
revokedfortreason: I wonder what humans taste like…
TheAwaited posted:
I killed my captain :)
[Image]
>open comments
updraft: cool, now get rid of the body you fucking moron
hs118fju: Dude, don’t post the dismembered body of your captain in a forum known to be frequented by Betterment plants. Read the fucking rules or your idiocy’s gonna be eternal.
Present: I’d delete this if I were you.
updraft: guy’s dead in two days tops. hope that brief reprieve from your captain was worth it.
cant_choose_one: lol, this you? [link]
mutinywatch posted:
MUTINY WATCH 33/201/31
Successful mutinies: 0
Failed mutinies: 9
Attempted mutinies: 20
Four of the failed mutinies are from Chief Hunter Naxla’s sector. The mutineers – Yalth, Xilla, Tasyth, and Oxaur – reportedly planned the timing together, though the mutinies were separate. Combined casualties are two and a half ships’ worth of cattle, one space station, two dead fleet captains and one dead fleet commander.
The one who assassinated Chief Hunter Isthel on camera was a scout called Seirn, who apparently acted without the knowledge or help of anyone else. The other mutineers’ names are Sulleth, Xira, Keth, and Kursal.
Compiled reports: [link]
>open comments
updraft: Seirn was a real one, may his glory be eternal
revokedfortreason: Look at that, Xilla actually tried to send a cattleship full of live prey back into prey space. Now that’s real conviction, not the “space the food” shit people in my sector have going on. Would have been fun if they didn't get shot down.
updraft: oh hey i found @TheAwaited
updraft: senior hunter kithien in sector 4, killed and dismembered her captain and then posted the body on “an internet forum”, found and executed the same day. lmao dumbass
chipped05: Internet forum mentioned! [image]
hs118fju: It’s interesting how many of the mutinies nowadays seem to revolve around getting rid of cattle, instead of getting more cattle. I’m sure that means nothing.
infoleaks posted:
Fun news from the homeworld: Farm worker left alone for a day, kills nearly all Zurulian cattle to “spare them further suffering”, then sets the place on fire. Internal communications regarding the incident: [link]
>open comments
Present: I understand the theory behind compassion, but burning the farm down? Why is everyone wasting their food these days? Is there something in the water?
hs118fju: This was up on the clearnet, though. Not really a leak.
Present: @hs118fju Read the internal memos, apparently she was talking to the cattle and called one of them her friend. Betting the news’ll be off the clearnet as soon as they dig that up.
hs118fju: Apologies. I did not see that part.
another: @Present We are wasting food because it sends a message.
LetMeSleep: “Is there something in the water?” Revolution, hopefully.
fishingbot posted:
I am trying to convert one of my squadmates. What is good literature for beginners?
>open comments:
revokedfortreason: We Live In A Society and Theory of Conscience are some of fhe best ones.
LetMeSleep: Betterment – for who? is a good first step, it was my first treasonous read. Greatly recommended.
LetMeSleep: Check your messages, I sent an electronic copy to you.
chipped05: Depends on what kind of person they are. Do NOT give Theory of Conscience to a hardline believer.
revokedfortreason: True, but I wouldn’t want to get a hardline believer on my side anyway.
fishingbot: What do you mean “what kind of person they are”? How do I tell?
chipped05: Summoning @Present, they’re the best at reading people.
Present: Why do you want to convert them? Do you just want company or are they showing signs of defective emotions or opinions? What do they think about Betterment? Or humans? Fellow defectives? Prey?
Present: In any case, Stronger Together is the best first read, since it’s very non-offensive, and then depending on their reaction you can follow it up with one of the others mentioned, or Mirroring Genes. (I’m biased, that one’s mine.)
Present: Actually, just tell me more in private and I’ll help you out with what I would do.
fishingbot: I appreciate it.
Present posted two documents:
Read Them Like A Book
Manipulation Is Your Strongest Ally
>open comments
Present: I’ve been told there was a need for this, so here you go. I present Present’s Guide To What Other People Think.
updraft: oh fuck yeah an expert opinion
updraft: hows your captain doing?
Present: Bad. :) Let’s just say he’s not been sleeping well. Or eating well. Or doing anything well. (For some reason he seems to believe he’s been exposed to nuclear radiation…) I will have an update for you all soon.
shot_at_dawn: This will be very helpful in my efforts.
hs118fju: This is a work of genius. In another life you would have made a great Betterment propagandist.
Present: That is the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said to me.
LetMeSleep posted:
What is your weirdest defective trait? And don’t say common things like “I sympathized with prey as a child” or “I’m weak”. I’ll start, I like to watch prey broadcasts. Harchen hospital dramas are something else.
>open comments
updraft: i think your weirdest defective trait would be the cannibalism
LetMeSleep: Nah, that is just the logical extension of my worldview
updraft: i don’t want to know
updraft: anyways i think talking to people is relaxing. being in a room of people who are all talking to me at the same is my idea of a fun time
LetMeSleep: You are deranged. Is that why you’re always commenting on every thread?
updraft: maybe
cant_choose_one: i’m a normal person without any defective traits but i hate betterment and like treason, so i’m stuck here with the rest of you degenerates.
updraft: sucks to suck
krakotldisliker: I like to eat plants.
updraft: what
LetMeSleep: What.
krakotldisliker: Most of them aren’t actually poisonous, so long as you steer clear of berries and the like. Fresh leaves tend to have a taste that lingers on, swamp grasses can help with an upset stomach, and seeds are just a fun snack in general.
krakotldisliker: Nuts are the best, though. Nice, crunchy texture. I recommend trying them.
LetMeSleep: You won this thread. No one else could possibly compete with that. What the fuck.
another posted:
All of my crew, regardless of personal opinions, are fervently searching for an excuse to go back to Earth. Nothing unites a ship more than good food. I miss it so much.
>open comments
fishingbot: What do you miss the most?
another: The sub-sapient cattle for one. I had the opportunity to look into the eyes of a “chicken” (I think that is what they called it), and there was no spark of intelligence in it. I could tell that it was nothing but an animal.
chipped05: Did you eat its eggs? If I wasn’t already a free thinker, that would have done it for me. If the humans ever want to incite treason in the Dominion, they should just give us a supply of chicken eggs.
another: YES! I would go to war for them if I could have one singular chicken. I would do anything if there was the faintest chance of gaining a chicken at the end. I’d live with the Venlil. I’d take a bath in acid. Did you know they lay eggs daily? And the humans have BILLIONS of them!
chipped05: The wisest decision Chief Hunter Isif has ever made was allying with the species that is literally sitting on a mountain of food. Why would anyone ever want to go raiding when the humans are just giving away delicacies for free?
hs118fju: @chipped05 Is that where your delusion that Isif is not a braindead Betterment puppet comes from?
chipped05: @hs118fju Shut up, we’re talking about the most delicious food to ever grace this galaxy, not about why you think I’m wrong.
chipped05: But no.
shot_at_dawn: You two are making me so jealous. Fuck sector 3, I want to live on Earth. Could you at least start a black market trade in chicken eggs or something? I need to experience this.
another: We ate it all already. And I will not apologize for that.
LetMeSleep: You are sick and twisted to be telling us about it without giving us any chance of experiencing it. This is torment worse than anything Betterment could come up with.
krakotldisliker: How long until Betterment turns against humans because they’re making hunting too easy?
chipped05: I bet they’re already seething about it.
updraft: i’m expecting a lot of mutinies to happen in isif’s sector now
another: Look for us on the morning news as I try to corral a ship and run right back to Earth for some eggs.
mutinywatch posted:
MUTINY WATCH 33/202/4
Successful mutinies: 1
Failed mutinies: 25
Attempted mutinies: 19
What the fuck.
My congratulations to everyone in Chief Hunter Isif’s sector. But what the fuck.
Compiled reports: [link]
>open comments
shot_at_dawn: I think if a Chief Hunter does it, it’s called “treason” not “mutiny”.
updraft: what the fuck
updraft: well at least @another will get those eggs
chipped05: @hs118fju Who’s delusional now???