<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2289108#msg2289108">Quote from: Chelemar on 30-09-2009, 00:02:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">mark, you wrote here that the col. intended the following:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote">He has left a couple of his men and women behind at every pod that had wounded and dead: triage and burial servitors.  He intends to round them all up sometime the next day, with proper materials (i.e. stretchers) to transport the wounded.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>  <br/>However, Linco has already established that the wounded were brought along, not left behind.  He had said it twice in post.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, see, the problem with your statement is that the Colonel is in a position of authority.  It is<em>his</em>decision to bring or leave those people behind, not Linco's.  I didn't put that into my post because I assumed you guys would think that he had simply left the wounded behind.  When I saw your post (which incorrectly said that they were brought along), I decided to clarify a few things  in this thread.  Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2289108#msg2289108">Quote from: Chelemar on 30-09-2009, 00:02:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">And, no Linco is not crazy.  He is pragmatic and yet an idealist.  For him, the greater good is what matters in some things (feeding the children over the life of the animals).  He mourned to death of the lovely creatures, but feeding children and the weaker colonists would come first for him.  Yet, he is an idealist, if he was a total pragmatic, he would accept that the stronger would eat before the weaker so that the hunters would continue to hunt.  But, as he has shown, who decides what is considered strength.  Other may have baulked at killing the creatures allowing their loveliness sway them, not Linc. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It was just an observation, Chel.  :P  I got the impression he was mentally unhinged because he's a career special operations officer who captured these two beautiful creatures, kills them in cold blood, and then bawls like a baby over them.  I mean, that just screams PTSD.  He’s also having bitter, murderous, and somewhat irrational thoughts (the “dick” rant, much?).  XD<br/><br/>Now don’t get me wrong.  That was a stunning post; I loved the connection you established between him and the dearlings (sp: deerlings?), and the imagery was fantastic.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2289108#msg2289108">Quote from: Chelemar on 30-09-2009, 00:02:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, are they not marching away from the CACC?  ( This is the way it appears in the post.) </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Actually, he’s marching parallel to the CACC.  The CACC is south of the beach, in the jungle.  He marched northwest towards the westernmost beached lifepod, then from there moved east along the beach to the easternmost pod (which is about as far away from the CACC as the westernmost pod).  When he sets out again, he’ll head back to the CACC, gather the supplies necessary to move the wounded, and then return to the CACC.  I also reread the post, and I don’t understand how you go the impression he was moving away from the CACC.  Well, technically, he was, but he had to in order to scout out the beached pods.  :?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2289108#msg2289108">Quote from: Chelemar on 30-09-2009, 00:02:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Why  would the Col. not send all survivors with armed sentries to the CACC immediately, not drag them on a forced march to find other survivors.  Even if his intentions are good, his logic is questionable.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Couple reasons.  First off, he wants to condition the people.  True, the Novus Expeditionary Force only recruited people who could pass the military’s fitness exam, but that doesn’t mean they’re in shape.  The Colonel knows that no one from the Company will be checking in for a<em>long</em>, if ever, which means they have to carve out a survival on this colony with what they can salvage, which is not much at all.  Many of these people have lived out their lives in comfort, and would have continued to do so with the colony building equipment on the<em>Traveler</em>.  Now, lacking the proper supplies, they’re going to be forced to endure and suffer for the first time in their lives.  The Colonel is force marching these people to condition them.  Play times over, kids, time to hurt.<br/><br/>Second, he might need the manpower.  What if he stumbled on a pod trapped in water, or wedged in the rocks, or buried in sand?  The civilians could provide that extra muscle necessary to save the people trapped inside.<br/><br/>Third, he doesn’t want to split his forces unless absolutely necessary.  He’s military, and military represents the Company.  One of the major reasons for going on this expedition is to escape Company influence, which he and his men directly represent.  In short, the Colonel knows that there is a significant chance of the civilians revolting or betraying him and his soldiers.  He doesn’t want to send a few men along with dozens of civilians to the CACC because he fears they might be killed by the people they’re supposed to protect.  That, and it<em>is</em>late in the day.  What if night fell and they had not made it back yet?  Why risk it?<br/><br/>Maybe his logic is questionable.  Maybe he should be more sympathetic to the civilians, like not forcing them to march in the heat and gravity after a traumatic event.  Especially when he knows that they’re not exactly chums with the Company, whom he represents.  *shrugs*  He made the best choice he thought he could.  Whether it is or isn’t, we’ll find out soon enough in the RP, won’t we?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2289108#msg2289108">Quote from: Chelemar on 30-09-2009, 00:02:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As far as shelter, their best defense is to use resources from the island to escape detection.  Metal will be seen and easily scanned.  Their best bet?   To find a cave system for shelter and<strong> not rely on the wreckage of their old lives.</strong>  So moving them for one night.... meh.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Find caves?  Have you ever gone out into the woods and actively searched for a cave?  If you had, you’ll know their damned hard to find, and those you do discover are usually mere hollows in the rock, certainly nothing large enough to hold 100+ people.  If they did, the people would not like it one bit. Why live in a cave when the whole world (literally) is laid out before you, with who-knows-what resources just waiting to be harvested?<br/><br/>And like Fear said, they don’t even know if there is a sentient alien force on the planet.  So far, they’ve been led to believe that’s it’s deserted, with no signs of life besides the nonsentient flora and fauna.  IMHO, they’re more likely to believe in the absence of aliens, even if the Admiral landed and told them all about it.  The Colonel and Co. have no reason to believe that they should take shelter.<br/><br/>Also, the bolded part was very…. Poetic.  I liked it.  <br/>