Omegan Medical Service Ends Gang War, Kills (Almost) Everyone

I doubt it actually happened exactly like the 'news' report - Omega's citizens sometimes have a habit of exaggerating slightly. We try our hardest not to cause collateral too much; the only houses destroyed were probably full of gangers. So a few abandoned, decrepit buildings fell down. Big deal. We kill civilians, that's less potential customers. The gunships were for the evac, the heavy weapons were to cover the gunships.

If they wanted it done properly, they should've taken a contract out for everyone in the gang.

That Omega doctor lady is scary.

You are literally the worst person alive. No, seriously, fuck you. It's assholes like you that are making it harder for good people to live on Omega.

"Omega's citizens exaggerate?" Hell, most Omegan citizens are terrified to even open their mouths because of fascists like you. Do us a favor and leave the people in peace.

Curious. You have the times when Omegans angrily denounce any smears against their beloved backwater as unsubstantiated slander, and then you get the times when a gang-bang that ended in the collapse of two apartment blocks and a diner is dismissed as being par for the course.

Ahh, but that’s the point rather than beside it. Fact is, you don't see many outfits or crews filling this specific niche with any degree of quality service where it matters.

Here's the fine print for those too retarded to get it.

One, anyone big enough and nasty enough to have serious influence on the station will have the resources to hire on and supply their own in-house medical personnel, meaning they don't feel inclined to have us fill that niche for them. Then you need to factor in that those guys pretty much exclusively help their own crews and nobody else.

Two, anyone who lacks that kind of influence pretty much has to come to us or a crew that’s part of the OHO (on our terms or theirs'), or a smaller (and therefore infinitely shittier) independent outfit. If you go to the OHO, you’re pretty much fucked (because the vast majority of the crews that are OHO members suck). The OHO's outright admitted they’re constantly undermanned, underfunded, and pretty much need to get by on handouts whereas we've got the funding, manpower and firepower to at least keep our operation functional half the fucking time, even if we’re a bit more discriminatory with our clientele. Going to any crew besides the big, well-funded ones (where you need to sign up and become a member of that outfit or be a dependent of a member to get the benefits at all) or FEMES (where all you gotta do is hire us) will be a crapshoot at best.

Three, I don't see many other EMT groups on Omega period, let alone groups that can do their jobs well. Sheer selfishness among the Omegans who can afford us and aren’t part of the larger crews will keep us in business practically on its own, even through this perceived debacle.

Oh, and the best part? Not everything we do is High-Threat Response. We have smaller units that do the more typical EMT thing, but with less gunships and heavy weapons and more ‘hardsuits, a small armored ambulance, assault rifles and the occasional sharpshooter if we need it.’ So yes, we’re capable of precision, in the event that it’s the most expedient way to get to our clients (within the terms of the contract they signed).

If you guys really think I can’t get somehow spin this into a positive sales pitch, you’re wrong. We may not be the only hooker in town, but if the guys hiring us are that desperate for a half-decent fuck, they will not care if the alternatives are going without or turning to an even more disease-ridden prostitute because they’re cheaper.

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Pretty sure he's not. He's definitely better than a few people I could name.


How, exactly?


Everyone exaggerates.


We are.

Last I checked, we're not shaking people down for protection money, oppressing them, or telling them to keep their mouth shut. You're entitled to your opinion, but it's like an asshole - nobody wants to see it.

Also, fun fact, I've mentioned before that we run an at-cost clinic explicitly meant to cater to the poor. A lot of our proceeds from the EMT and High-Threat Response stuff go to that clinic.

That's right, Job! This little bout of impromptu demolition work has directly financed the medical support going to your underclass buddies! Be happy! We're doing you a favor!

You're looking for a were-moth. Case in point.


Wanton destruction to help the innocent! Permission to go blow up some buildings?

(that was a joke, before you say yes - I ran out of grenades a while ago)

Immediate efficiency is non equivalent to long term strategic viability; ie. Geth Consensus has the capability to employ sufficient military assets as to avoid significant retaliation in a comparable situation, other entities may not.

Query: current offensive/defensive capabilities of Organization: Freelance Emergency Medical Extraction Service..

Affirmative.

Clarification: When the hypothetical quote/unquote "everyone" is the issue.

Individuals who prioritize response time and personal security over collateral damage to nonaffiliated parties.

The damage to innocent parties makes this whole affair an atrocity. It's the assault on their clients' subordinates that make it bad business sense as well as unconscionable.

>implying any damage was actually done to innocent parties


I'm sorry, what gives you the impression we have a responsibility to anybody not explicitly paying for their own or their subordinates' medevac? We don't provide a free service; you get the contract filled out and sent in, and if you get shot up or expect to get shot up in the time it takes us to get to you, we evac you. The fucking end. If you get HTR services, we clear an LZ while we do it.

There is absolutely no incentive for us to provide free medevac support for people who are not paying, or do not have others paying for them. The fact that those subordinates (either side) were trying to keep us from fulfilling the terms of an HTR contract that happened to cover a wounded guy on the other side of their little turf war was just an unexpected coincidence that prompted the HTR teams to take the actions they did. I'm not going to fucking apologize for doing my job.

And besides, I can guarantee neither side involved in this particular squabble will seek retribution. The only survivors are in our medical ward right now. Say hi, Don and Richard.
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Don and Richard say hi.

Are you as bad a doctor as you are a liar?

>implying anybody who was in the buildings wasn't a ganger and therefore a threat to the extraction teams

>implying that anyone can really be innocent on Omega in the first place

Really, Harrad, I expected better 'evidence' to support the shit-stream of inane babble indicating I'm somehow the worst person in the galaxy. Especially out of you, of all people.

EDIT: More importantly, even if there were civvies in those buildings? Fucking free-fire zone. This is no different from how the Hierarchy acted during Taetrus, Relay 314, or any other war throughout galactic history. Standard fucking procedure. If civvies were in the buildings, tough fucking shit, they should not have been there.

So I take it you gave everyone, including the people in the building who you totally forgot about until I pointed them out to you, a chance to surrender? Because that doesn't sound like the case. Until then I'm pretty sure you don't even understand the difference between what you are and what you're trying to hide behind.

You're arguing really hard and coming up with a lot of excuses for someone who's supposedly sleeping well at night.

Right, because that's totally an option when half of the people living in districts like Kima are usually sandblasted outta their fucking minds and running high on adrenaline to boot. Between that and by 'keeping my extraction teams from doing their jobs' I meant 'shots fucking fired on the HTR units who came to save the dude on the other side of the shootout', I see no reason to permit them a chance to seriously fuck over my men. I have to be responsible for the lives of both my outfit and my clients, and in a situation like this, that means 'DO NOT FUCK AROUND.'

I cannot waste time and resources discriminating between 'hostile' and 'non-hostile' in a fucking live-fire shootout beyond the people I need to rescue, whom, I might add, are fucking bleeding out and are already in critical condition, dying, by the time I GET THERE.

Then you are utterly incompetent and shouldn't even think about touching a gun.

continue fucking reading you spiritsdamned monkey

No. Seriously. If yer running into shit so hot that you can't tell who's who, then ya might want to find yourself a new AO. Hell, I can even say it's perfectly possible in T-Space.

Showing up and blowing everything to hell is a quick way to piss everyone off. True story.

Nulisan

You should be ashamed of yerself. Yer a good enough person, you ought ta know better than this. You are better than this. No self respectin' medic mows down non combatants, neverth'less two apartment buildings potentially full of them! You c'n say it was in your contract, that you ain't done nothin' wrong. But deep down you know damn well what you've done completely flies in the face of everything ya supposedly started off standin' for.

You didn't sign up to become a medic within the Hierarchy to blow up buildings that could be full of people, you did it you help protect the people around you. You started a medic operation on Omega to help people.

You didn't leave the Hierarchy on your own terms, an' yer mad at the discharge. I get that.

Prove them wrong, goddammit, don't prove them right.

Get back to doing what medics are supposed t' do.

+200 for some decidedly interesting and non-idiotic arguments in favor of your operation plus being at least partially aware of what's going on.

-25 for the minor to moderate emotional meltdown.

Unless I'm very much mistaken (look at me charging in on my white stallion and shining armor) but Mr. Praesid is not interested in helping people out of the kindness of his heart so much as he is in making a profit overall.

You know

like any decent mercenary organization.

Really people, if he intended to run a charitable/non-profit group don't you think that he would be.

This coming from the guy who was OK with Korwun fucking Gorik being buddy-buddy with spiritsdamned slavers.

I'm fucking laughing right now.

Also

brb backing up my own personal fucking wahmbulance (of which I've got like a dozen) BECAUSE I'M OH SO ASHAMED RIGHT NOW GUYS

ok back


This is hilarious. You think I'm just mad about the fucking xemnashit psych discharge? FUCK no. I'm already proving them wrong about that discharge by sheer dint of the fact that I got my operation functional, staffed and competently-run. A few dead civvies whose existence in the first place is still in fucking question? So fucking what, it's Omega, nobody gives a shit except a couple of white knights who don't have the goddamn fortitude to dish it out and take it at the same fucking time.


-500 for the fucking unwanted analysis of my business practices and psychological state

So it's not at all like the examples you tried to bring up to bareface your way out of it. Got you..


You know I did dropship missions for the Hierarchy for five years before I joined the Lifebearers, right? You know that I have seen and flown in the same shit you claim your team is staring down, right? You know we did a fine job being able to discriminate, right? And when we had to level a place we knew what we were leveling and owned up to it instead of making excuses.

What I'm saying is that if this is the way you roll, you're not only a hazard and a bareface liar, but you and your team is just shitty at doing your job.

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I'm starting to think an analysis of your psychological state is exactly what you need.

Because it's not like I'm half decent at management and administration myself or anything. Or have any idea what I'm talking about.

That's just crazy talk.