Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Raptor, I appreciate the risks you are taking to participate in this battle. You truly have the spirit of the warrior.
Eh eh... you're playing cat and mouse both on the CIC, and at your workplace...Originally posted by Raptor
NZ is a few time-zones out of synch with most of the world. Between that and a boss who takes exception to my wasting time on the net while she's paying me, I have to get my shots in when I can.
On a sidenote, it must be said that had Confed indeed been a unified military dictatorship, they would have lost within a few months. Granted, the Battle of MacAuliffe wouldn't have been so one-sided, but the Kilrathi would have still had torpedoes. The Confed fleet would take enormous losses, which would promptly result in a revolution within the Confederation. The dictatorship would have been overthrown, but in the meantime the Kilrathi would have rampaged through the Vega and Sol sectors.Originally posted by pendell
The Confederation was weaker than ducks because
worthless politicians hamstrung the war effort,
for many years refusing to acknowledge that there was
a war and using every opportunity to dismantle carriers,
cut back forces, etc. Had Confed been a unified military
dictatorship, the K. would have been crushed in days.
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
Raptor, I appreciate the risks you are taking to participate in this battle. You truly have the spirit of the warrior.
Originally posted by Quarto
On a sidenote, it must be said that had Confed indeed been a unified military dictatorship, they would have lost within a few months. Granted, the Battle of MacAuliffe wouldn't have been so one-sided, but the Kilrathi would have still had torpedoes. The Confed fleet would take enormous losses, which would promptly result in a revolution within the Confederation. The dictatorship would have been overthrown, but in the meantime the Kilrathi would have rampaged through the Vega and Sol sectors.Originally posted by pendell
The Confederation was weaker than ducks because
worthless politicians hamstrung the war effort,
for many years refusing to acknowledge that there was
a war and using every opportunity to dismantle carriers,
cut back forces, etc. Had Confed been a unified military
dictatorship, the K. would have been crushed in days.
...So don't blame the politicians, for they saved your ass .
Actually it is harder to detect ONE ship with ONE bomb than a whole fleet. And the Kilrathi had visited Earth and dropped a lot of bombs (after destroying the lanets Sirius, Warsaw and Gilead, remember?) on a lot of major cities and you lucky apes needed Jukaga to stop the Kilrathi from destroying Earth, mankind would not have accomplished it. Oh, and as far as I remember we also destroyed Goddard and the humans fell for the false truce. Not very smart either...Originally posted by Zor Prime
I hereby Declare my return to this board. And, I see, Mekt has returned as well. Ah, the time is at hand!!! Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!!!!! If the Kilrathi are so damned good, why did you let ONE ship, with ONE bomb, fly all the way thruogh Kil. space, blow up everything, kill hobbes, kill prince thrakath, and BLOW UP you homeworld. Anybody who lets an enemy into their home is a big idiot. So.....the Kilrathi are a bunch of idiots.
And if you were smart enough to see that we were killing more of you than you were us.......maybe you should of got your darned 'good' fighters out and used em!!!! One again...IDIOTS. Kilrathi are nothing but Cats. I have a cat for a pet. So.....you must be some little girls pet cat?
Wow....subversion to the humans. We had you enslaved before you ever met us!!! We had you beat, before you met us in space. You were a defeated race from the beginning!!!
And here's a question for ya......If you kilrathi are so freaking good......why did you lose the war?????HUH???? Can't answer can ya?? Cat got yer tounge???? Oh wait.....You are the cat.....it must have fallen out and you lost it while you were licking yourself! And you know whats funny? I blew up your planet with ONE bomb and ONE ship.....and you idiots couldn't blow ours up with a whole stinking fleet with thousands of bombs. Thats sheer STUPIDITY!!!! You can't even designate a preprogramed target on your targeting computer let alone fly you stinking fighter.....let alone a carrier or any other capship!
Actually it was the Midway who asked first for help from the Kilrathi in WCP.
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Oh...and if your so stinking good.......why do you keep asking US for help. If your as good as you say you are....you don't need our help. BUT NO..... your so dammned weak...... you come crying to us everytime a fly lands on your paw. Wait a minute.....I may have been mistaken.......The Kilrathi aren't cats.....they're CHICKENS!!!!!!
WE ARE SUPERIOR!!!! Why? The bugs..... You come crying to us: "Help! Help! I'm being chased and shot at by an inferior species!!" So what do we do? We come save your damn asses. We completely annhilate them while you stand there with your jaws on the ground. Go ahead...pick up your jaw off the floor..... you don't have to act so surprised....I mean.....we beat you didn't we?
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
The humans are such a pathetic race. They actually have people that are eating only rabbit food. Now that is at least an appropriate behaviour for a prey species that isn't
able to hunt for food without technical help.
[Edited by Mekt-Hakkikt on 04-10-2001 at 16:22] [/B]
Originally posted by pendell
Originally posted by Raptor
Three words: Six Day War. Democracies aren't the only ones who can be blindsided by a surprise attack or pre-emptive strike. It's interesting that none of the real world military dictatorships you mention have ever beaten democratic (and tiny) Israel since it was created. From the original war in 1948, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur, the Bekka Valley, it's been Israel all the way.
PS: As Mekt isn't here, I'll respond on his behalf.
Question: What do you call a Confed pilot with half a brain?
Answer: The Wing Commander.
Best, Raptor
What do you call a Kilrathi pilot with no brain at all?
A: Gifted!
Also: I agree that dictatorships can be surprised,
and lose. However, for the short term (<30 years),
they are more effective at mobilizing population for
military operations, and they certainly don't throw
away their warships during a temporary cease-fire!
In the long-term, of course, dictatorships tend to fall
behind democracies, and thus become militarily obsolescent
(ref: 20th century history). I was not arguing that any
tin-pot dictatorship in the Middle East is more militarily
effective than Isreal -- they are obviously not. I brought
them up as a counter-example to the contention that there
would be violent revolution if Confed lost at Mcauliffe
when, in fact, violent revolutions in the middle of a war
are rare.
-- Brian P.
PS. Mekt, my response to you is just below this one.
Enjoy! -- BDP.
DISCLAIMER: All insults are for training purposes only.
No actual insult of any being, living or dead, is intended
or implied.
-- BDP.
[Edited by pendell on 04-10-2001 at 16:41]
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
I want to see, when a human and a Kilrathi are in an arena for close combat, without exterior weapons, how the human's brain will save it...
Hmmm, the human brain is one of the tastiest pieces of a human. At least it serves some purpose: Filling Kilrathi bellies.
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
Actually it is harder to detect ONE ship with ONE bomb than a whole fleet. And the Kilrathi had visited Earth and dropped a lot of bombs (after destroying the lanets Sirius, Warsaw and Gilead, remember?) on a lot of major cities and you lucky apes needed Jukaga to stop the Kilrathi from destroying Earth, mankind would not have accomplished it. Oh, and as far as I remember we also destroyed Goddard and the humans fell for the false truce. Not very smart either...
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
So you are a little girl Zor Prime?
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
So what? Kilrathi have been eating ape creatures for thousands of years.
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
You were victorious because of sheer dumb luck. 36hours later your homeplanet would have been in ruins.
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
Actually it was the Midway who asked first for help from the Kilrathi in WCP.
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
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I want to add that we leaving the field of insults and are getting into a debate, however that is not the original intention of this thread. If we want to change into a debate, fine by me, although I found the "insult contest" funnier. I will continue in that direction for as long as this thread's intention isn't changed.
originally posted by pendell
Glad to see the Kilrathi find something human tasty,
since there's nothing tasty about a Kilrathi at all. We
boil them down for dog food.