Dog Soldier

Well back to working on this game world concept and thought I'd toss a couple of notes in here.

The New Peace:

The Global population has stabilized at around the 10 billion mark and globally the violent death rate has tanked to abut 1 per 100,000 per year.

How did this happen?

Effective policing, drones, private police contractors in conjunction with more effective communication between regional, national and local police

FRMI "lie detector" technology that coincidentally bypasses things like the right against self incrimination as well as new approaches to interrogation and investigation.

Net effect is that crime as it is traditionally considered is way down.

Now in a world with a population of 10 billion that 1 per 100,000 death rate means that there's 100,000 homicides ranging from old fashion murder to the occasional skirmish by more extreme groups.

And the global media will do its damnedest to sensationalize each and every one of those deaths!

More to come as it develops

Thanks

I'm in a sort of mood myself tonight.

When I was somewhere around the age or 5 my grandfather was the county sheriff.

I got my ass whipped by a total stranger when I went wandering out into the confines of the county courthouse and foolishly got a drink from the water fountain that wasn't labled "Whites Only"

Assholes....

I can take you to a grave of a black man who was lynched on the unintelligible mutters of a retarded white girl from a genuine family of inbred.

He was lynched by being sawn in half by dragging him back and forth on a barbed wire fence.

I hear whiney ass pussies wailing that whatever the hell it is that the US is doing in the sandbox is "the same damned thing as Vietnam"

Well fuck me running with a chainsaw

The levels of violence, intrusion by governments and all the other things we like to gripe about are in fact way down.

I've always liked my CP games to be more of the "edge" sorts of games. Things aren't that bad! But for the corporations an corrupt in governments how much money is enough? Only a little bit more!

The Edgerunners are out there on the Edge

The Edge has a real MEANING, it's not just more of the same bunch of people all salvaging cans of cat food or something. There's an economic bases for having high tech for the low lifes to abuse.

As for that intro all I can say is....Welcome to Arkansas

Happy Birthday!

On Wild Justice on NatGeo TV there have been several episodes where the game warden have discovered illegal gold mines in Northern California.

Tech of those things seems to be an eclectic mix of junk, primitive and high tech.

In other words if you need something that can be fabricated with a chainsaw and the trees growing around then they'd use that. No need to buy new motors if you can use salvage and the bonus is that there's no direct trail of equipment purchases and/or theft

This is actually something I'd thought about for years. As for Martial Arts simply augmenting with simple sap gloves could very well be all that's needed for some of the less armored 'borgs.

I'd heard it called Af-Gay-Istan...

I just finished Thirteen and have to say I really enjoyed it. Not going to get too detailed as I don't want to spoil anything

Some of the details of the world were an example of picking low hanging fruit and in particular "Jesusland" was shooting really big fish in a very small barrel. Some of the genetics were rather dumb but all that was easy enough to get past

The character development of Carl Marsalis is just outstanding and is a great study on what a Solo would be like

I give it two thumbs up

hehe nice

Given that they also ran the photo of Treyvan at age 12 I'm suspicious of any of this media.

Treyvan pulled a rather straight forward predator move in circling back. He got lit up like a cheap cigar for his troubles.

Actually because you came out in a public forum and said this:

Or, to put it more bluntly, let's say I go to America and legally acquire a handgun. I see Zimmerman walking down the street. I follow. I walk close to him. I loudly and aggressively confront him verbally, accusing him of being a racist, a murderer and a coward. He gets upset, starts shouting back. I now feel threatened, pull the gun and shot him dead.

 

By the logic of Zimmerman not being guilty of a crime, the above is justifiable behavior. Despite the fact that I actively pursued a person I suspected of being dangerous and verbally initiated a confrontation.

Maybe just life without parole.

The further this goes the worse it smells. Zimmerman started with a bonehead play and he finished with a 9 mm but at this point there's no doubt that Treyvan decided on a little ground and pound for being 'dissed'

Tasers have drastically reduced the incidents of police lighting PCP addled miscreants up with their .40 calibers. Overall I'd call it a win and I'm considering getting my own taser.

As for the Zimmerman/Treyvon thing. I just learned this morning that Treyvon's parents copyrighted "Justice For Treyvon' before starting their campaign. They are even selling licensed tee-shirts and hoodies I believe. You be the judge....

SEAL's recruiting high school swimmers

Plus other manner of jocks. From what I've heard this has been working out for them

I'd recently read, and I'm trying to track down sources, that 26% of CIA employees are now contractors and they this 26% constitute 49% of the CIA's personnel budget.

Why do they need so many contractors?

Well the SpecOps people who'd usually be attached to handle this sort of thing for the spooks are in short supply.

Why are SpecOp units understaffed?

Because PMC corporations are hiring them away...

So now you have each contractor costing the CIA approximately 3x what it costs to employ an actual, responsible goverment employee

My personal view is that this system is the result of Bush administration cronyism.

Yes, and that business model is why Blackwater USA/Blackwater LLC/ Xe/ Acedemi/ whateverthefuck keeps having to reorganized and change brands. BTW their current emphasis DBA Academi is on the amount of TRAINING they do

The politics of the military contractors is rather simple. Sweetheart deals are given to the connected who hire various SpeOp types away from their units to serve as overpriced mall cops for the Dept. of State.

So the US Government is out all the money for training them for combat and then hires them back at a higher wage through a contracting corporation...

And people thought Haliburton was the pinnacle of Bush's corruption!

BTW, Obama hasn't slacked on handing out fat contracts to these bozo's

Question: How do you turn a highly trained operator with a friable skillset into an incompetent, overweight dork who's prone to committing atrocities?

Answer: Let him go to work for Blackwater/Xe/Academi

The next question would be where you'd get the elite inner layer. I have a suggestion.

 

HR looking for new hires flags applicants with hobbies like hunting and fishing, target shooting, athletes especially those who got scholarships for wrestling and football. Amateur boxers and martial artists.

 

Part of the "hook" would be intramural sports clubs within the company, special vacation deals for hunters. The list is endless.

 

From this they can develop in house a cadre of fiercely loyal corporate samurai and ninja who's loyalty is always to the corp.

Wouldn't the corps want soldier that they won't have to train themselves? I mean they can save all of the cost of basic training and new recruit drop outs if they hire people directly out of the army. The USA, being the way it is, would probably let the corps hire soldier directly from their reserves for a cash benefit. The corps get trained men and the US army gets some money. If the corp hires the top 10% of the recruits right out of basic training then they know they are getting quality and they are still young enough to indoctrinate.

For the grizzled commanders and the like they might hire a few guys who are at the end of their army contract. Again, years of battlefield experience for one low cost, better than sending your guys to war and losing 20% of them, just to get the same experience.

All the quality for none of the loss. A simple 2 or 3 months of corporate boot camp you will have 100% retention rate and a quality team to boot. Just my 2 cents.

Answer, it ain't rocket science..

A decent cadre of trainers and a good organizational structure and you're on your way. Catch guys right out of college, or even high school in some cases and you're golden.

The military has to train people but they aren't the Sun Source of all training.

BTW that was the point of my OP, all of those guys in that clusterfuck came with varying degrees of training ranging from excellent to excreable but they were all recruited as "pretrained"

My MA training has been rather eclectic. I hold a 4th degree BB in TKD. However the Koreans who own the school(s) I train at are an interesting bunch and regularly bring in people from other styles to cross train. For two years I trained Muay Thai with a fighter named Wu Pan Lee IIRC, never was sure how he spelled his name. For a couple of years we had Krav Maga cross training. Currently we have Gracie Jujitsu cross training and MMA.

Anyway, I've had the good fortune of being able to stay in one place and do what a lot of people have to run all over the place to try and get.

Possibly the thing that is oddest to me is that some TKD "traditionalist" just HATE it and complain bitterly then go off to train at a pure TKD school.

Ahh...I see the confusion now. Corp Guards and Corp Soldiers are completely different things by my reckoning. Even Arasaka has a strong disconnect between the two groups, and they're a full-on security company.

hehe, now that gives me an idea.

Using Arasaka as an example. They lose a contract, which they'd previously been subcontracting to one of the "former special forces outfits" to a big "former special forces outfit".

Some intel reveals that this new crew has a mixed bag of former narcs, US Army Rangers, an SAS operator and assorted other basically incompatible types.

Now the scenario is just like the video in my OP but instead of insurgents Arasaka has sent one of their A List units with a heavy machine gun and an armored SUV looking for a moment just like this.

They engage, break off after destroying the competitors detail and exfiltrate the area.

A couple of those incidents with no resolution and the contract is back up for bid

The next question would be where you'd get the elite inner layer. I have a suggestion.

HR looking for new hires flags applicants with hobbies like hunting and fishing, target shooting, athletes especially those who got scholarships for wrestling and football. Amateur boxers and martial artists.

Part of the "hook" would be intramural sports clubs within the company, special vacation deals for hunters. The list is endless.

From this they can develop in house a cadre of fiercely loyal corporate samurai and ninja who's loyalty is always to the corp.

You mean like Blackwater/Xi/Academi/whatever they fork?

Your country can't downsize you

there's nothing wrong with Martial Arts as healthy exercise. If it's practical as well that's really nice too. Something I've not seen of Krav Maga practitioners that has always annoyed me is the tubby, chain smoking expert who knows scores of nasty moves that are totally illegal and nearly untrainable who looks like a heart attack about to happen.

Have fun, but remember you have to get up and go out tomorrow so too many broken noses is gonna get old!

So, as usual - it's good as long as it is good.

Once organic body waste products start flying around, it's down and out.

The epitome of style over substance when you get down to it.

I'd contend that they don't even rise to the level of mercenaries.

I have a friend who went to work for Blackwater before it became Xi or whatever the hell the Prince family calls it now. I can't really fault him for taking stupid amount of cash but it essentially comes down to the corporation being able to dazzle prospective clients with the the credential of a retired Navy SEAL.

But again, that's my original point. They run a training school there but it's in no way equivalent to a genuine military organizations training that will inculcate a sense of unit cohesion. A couple of weeks refresher course then it's off to Bumfucked Egypt to ride around in black SUV's and sport designer shades.