A Special Extranet Announcement from Assemblyman Max Vallario!

The Talon was very good.

What a patriot.

I'm flattered. It's nice to know some things never change.

After much thought I've decided I'm in support of Cerberus equipment being purchased by Citadel forces, of course my opinion on this matter doesn't really amount to anything because I'm in the Terminus and not Citadel Space. Anyways, I'm more curious about the selling off of the gear more than anything; what all are they auctioning off?

Should the Guns not go to C-Sec? Najhil does not see how great Benefit comes from keeping the CDF active when C-Sec is both legally established and better trained. Najhil does not live on the Citadel, but Najhil would be much more comfortable having a real Police Force rather than a group of heavily-armed, under-trained Vigilantes roaming about the Citadel.

I'm not sure why you have such a hard on for thoughts of the SAN's incompetence, but I regret to inform you that you are delusional.

A Council species-quite a militarized species I might add, especially after the war-is not so weak or stupid that they cannot defend their own home system and the center of CSpace. There are myriad reasons that the SAN's defence policy was not hole proof (I would know, I took part in a lot of those actions and let me tell you, we weren't all happy with the policies, especially when we were the garrisons on the ground), but none of those reasons are applicable to Sol which is, regardless of your stupidity, one of the most heavily defended places in the galaxy with a large portion of the SAN's forces on/orbiting Earth as part of SATAE.

So no, they wouldn't last long because last time I checked, pirates don't tend to actually last long when they come into a fight with a large amount of SAN ships. There's a reason most pirates have the 'get in, grab and burn shit, get out before the SA turns up' tactic. You really think that if it were so easy that pirates wouldn't take the opportunity to raid such a densely populated world?

Ignoring all that, I think buying weapons from the SA's surplus for cheap is a good idea, though I agree with others that crime and rebuilding CSec is a more pressing issue that the CDEM, and those weapons should probably go to them rather than the militia. The CDF/CDEM is more a sign of the Citadel's independence from the Alliance and their separate ability to defend themselves as a sovereign nation, rather than a necessity.

It was a non-albinoid tiger. Aside from that, I'd fucking vote for me in a heartbeat if that was my campaign paraphernalia.

His name was Caligula, and he was the most pristine and wondrous creature in all of God's creation, and that he died while so many shit-heels lived is the greatest injustice since the Dreyfus affair.

Turians do not let invaders into their territory, discounting that one time the Reapers totally stomped all over our homeworld.

Oh, and the krogan.

And the rachni.

Discounting all those, of course.

I KNEW DERE WAS SOMMAT MISSIN' FROM ALL DEM TEXTBOOKS

where're dem turians in da rachni wars

WHAT'RE DEM FROGS HIDIN' DIS TIME

I'll have you know, this came from a highly reliable source.

As they did for almost everyone else. I'm not sure what the protocol was for the monolithic living ships with a grudge against all intelligent life.

It's interesting to note that the krogan never actually set foot on Palaven. We'd unleashed the genophage by the time they were assaulting Menae.

You're confused.

It's flattering that the examples you cited (aside from the third, being inapplicable for obvious reasons) were also events that brought the entire galaxy to their knees.

What she said.

Humans aren't so bad at war, actually, we were pretty good at doing each other in wholesale before we entered a wider galactic stage. I also don't remember us bowing our spines and saying yes sir either when that thing with the turians went bad.
Plenty of races out there can't really say the same.

Any pirates going into Sol will also cause a lot of top brass to be embarrassed.

Actually, sometimes I wonder whether it wouldn't be a good thing. with enough provocation, the council races could go Cilician on the pirates and stamp them out for good.

Note: Cilician refers to Cilician pirates, a well-documented ancient earth plague that lasted over a century and ended in 3 months when a major power and a good commander decided that enough was enough. More recent was the end of the Barbary pirates.
Its no coincidence that campaigns to deal with them usually involve going for their bases and conquering or stamping them out.

Wait, they actually had swords? As in, for combat, against enemies with guns? I thought Genma was making that up so we could have fight scenes that weren't just another gun fight. And to poke fun at Skeleton, of course.

Nope. There really were swords. Fucking ninja bitches. You'd just be sending the platoon in and then suddenly your point man would be missing his head. It was really fucking annoying.

Cerberus had monomolecular one-sided blades in their arsenal, but they were typically in use after the Bahak relay incident. Beforehand, melee weaponry was typically the standard combat knife.

You mean Cerberus also had those? Not confusing it with the Alliance are you?

During training, one of our boot-camp sarges was Lojza Cheng, a wiry nasty little bastard from Praga. He told us he'd been on a raid with other guys and an N7 leading (Turian country, didn't specify. Some ugly moon full of reapers). He said that girl would go stealth, appear right next to the target and either Carnifex his skull or slash the head off. Then she'd dodge out of fire, duck behind something and repeat the trick. Marauders and Cannibals would go down right off.
He described a single side, straight-edged nasty blade that could cut through armor. One handed.

We *think* he wasn't giving us a barrel full of bullshit.

"Annoying" is not the Word Najhil would have used.
Possibly "terrifying" or "paranoia-inducing", though.

It really is amazing how Cerberus managed to lose when they equipped their operatives with ninja swords in the 22nd-fucking-century.

I would just like to take the opportunity to reassure citizens that, with the funding that could potentially come from the bill I'm supporting, we will NOT be purchasing swords for C-SEC or the CDF.

...even if the idea is kinda cool.

Spiritsdammit. There go my plans for taking over the Citadel. Curse yoooooooouuuuuuuuu.

And here I was picturing myself patrolling the streets, a sword on one hip, and a pistol on the other.

Have at thee scoundrels, justice is upon you!

Though I suppose there is nothing stopping me from thus equipping myself at my own expense. Ah the day is saved!