So many SLN POWs

Relax wrote:Dump them all on Masada...

They will want out ASAP. Even working in agriculture.

You have over two million trained and at least kind-of disciplined personnel on a planet where the normal people are disarmed and the armed people don't have the same beliefs. I suspect Masada would not be happy, and things would change in ways they don't like.

McGuiness wrote:

Northstar wrote:
I did not have any spectacular idea of things to do myself when I posted the question, but it was something I was mulling over. Obviously treating them with rigorous fairness and giving excellent medical care would be crucial. Things like putting them on Hell or letting them rot in crippled ships would not serve the goal of even possibly 'making them into friends'. :-)

Hey, I DID say to put them on the part of Hell that's a tropical resort! [G]

Would that Hell tropical resort be called inferno by any chance??? :P [G]

darrell wrote:

McGuiness wrote:

Northstar wrote:
I did not have any spectacular idea of things to do myself when I posted the question, but it was something I was mulling over. Obviously treating them with rigorous fairness and giving excellent medical care would be crucial. Things like putting them on Hell or letting them rot in crippled ships would not serve the goal of even possibly 'making them into friends'. :-)

Hey, I DID say to put them on the part of Hell that's a tropical resort! [G]

Would that Hell tropical resort be called inferno by any chance??? :P [G]

You could always use them to set up a new colony, I hear LV-426 is nice this time of year

Northstar wrote:One of the problems with Sollies, in general, is their utter lack of knowledge about realities in the verge or in places like Haven and Manticore. This can be remedied by simply giving them access to uncensored faxes and boards, though with read only capability.

That sounds lovely, but it's a very bad idea. It is impossible to know which faxes and boards might be sending subtly-encoded messages to the POWs to organize some kind of action.

However, access to previously-recorded holodramas, historical and educational material, which couldn't possibly be used in that way, would be fine.

TheMonster wrote:

Northstar wrote:One of the problems with Sollies, in general, is their utter lack of knowledge about realities in the verge or in places like Haven and Manticore. This can be remedied by simply giving them access to uncensored faxes and boards, though with read only capability.

That sounds lovely, but it's a very bad idea. It is impossible to know which faxes and boards might be sending subtly-encoded messages to the POWs to organize some kind of action.

However, access to previously-recorded holodramas, historical and educational material, which couldn't possibly be used in that way, would be fine.

I presume someone among the POWs would be trying to organize nasty stuff in any case, so what if some outsider adds to it? But I do not think any such code has been set up by Sollies ahead of time. We are talking Sollies and Solly Intelligence services, if that is not a contradiction in terms, except for certain persons, who are busy doing other things, not trying to invent codes or send secret decoder rings to the captured Sollies.

Which means overall I think it more important to offer information and watch out for trickeration... which the GA would be watching out for anyway.

TheMonster wrote:

Northstar wrote:One of the problems with Sollies, in general, is their utter lack of knowledge about realities in the verge or in places like Haven and Manticore. This can be remedied by simply giving them access to uncensored faxes and boards, though with read only capability.

That sounds lovely, but it's a very bad idea. It is impossible to know which faxes and boards might be sending subtly-encoded messages to the POWs to organize some kind of action.

However, access to previously-recorded holodramas, historical and educational material, which couldn't possibly be used in that way, would be fine.

It's a My Little Pony, Care Bears, Smurfs marathon...

kzt wrote:

Relax wrote:Dump them all on Masada...

They will want out ASAP. Even working in agriculture.

You have over two million trained and at least kind-of disciplined personnel on a planet where the normal people are disarmed and the armed people don't have the same beliefs. I suspect Masada would not be happy, and things would change in ways they don't like.

The SLN & The Navy of the Faithful (grounded) will not like each other and kick each other's ass?

So? :)

Mitchell, Esq. wrote:

kzt wrote:

Relax wrote:Dump them all on Masada...

They will want out ASAP. Even working in agriculture.

You have over two million trained and at least kind-of disciplined personnel on a planet where the normal people are disarmed and the armed people don't have the same beliefs. I suspect Masada would not be happy, and things would change in ways they don't like.

The SLN & The Navy of the Faithful (grounded) will not like each other and kick each other's ass?

So? :)

While the Deneb Accords probably don't mention anything on the subject (though they might), I suspect most everyone would feel that using POWs to start a holy war is a violation of the intent of the Accords (and would then try to find any point that it could be interpreted as a technical violation of).

Amusing thought, though.

Then put them on Greyson. The heavy metal content of the planet will make staying in the POW camps...very smart choice.

Northstar wrote:
I did not have any spectacular idea of things to do myself when I posted the question, but it was something I was mulling over. Obviously treating them with rigorous fairness and giving excellent medical care would be crucial. Things like putting them on Hell or letting them rot in crippled ships would not serve the goal of even possibly 'making them into friends'. :-)

Hey, I DID say to put them on the part of Hell that's a tropical resort! [G][/quote]

Would that Hell tropical resort be called inferno by any chance??? :P [G][/quote]

You could always use them to set up a new colony, I hear LV-426 is nice this time of year[/quote]

Good idea. A nice place, it could be called a host resort, I suppose.

What about Fiora 161? Visit the Double-Y Resort!

Hoth? Featuring Tauntaun rides past the Wampa caves!

Mustafar? Natural hot springs!

Ceta-Alpha 5? Feed the wonderous Ceti eels!

Pandora? Enchanted world unspoiled by mining!

Arakis? Spice up you life!