I meant to post this last Monday, but things kept getting in the way.
We haven't seen the GA's PR campaign in action yet.
Granted we should have, but what should it include?
Given there are quite a varied list of target population audiences among the ~1800+ members and 'several hundred protectorates', what should be the universal points common to all the campaigns?
While the OFS is one of the major leading crimes of the SL, the core system populations generally remain ignorant of what OFS does and the SL condones in their name.
Detailing the SL's callous attitude toward everyone one else beyond the 'old league' core (including the shell); despite their avowals of civilized behavior and claims they're civilized humanity's leaders, learning what the OFS really does, what it actually approves of the transtellar abuse, driving the protectorate's population into serfdom or virtual slavery to the transtellar who bought it from OFS, preventing the general economic improvement it's claimed as its purpose to justify seizing control in return for the theft of the system GDP via the protectorate service fees that can exceed 35% or more [Saltash was rather high, but evidently not the highest the RMN knows of] to feed the voracious cancer of the SL bureaucracies in violation of their own constitution.
Making it plain across all social media etc, with testimonials from eye witness investigators and survivors, leaked through government censorship [though such systems wouldn't be immediate targets] if necessary [given the GA's war-tech competition there ought to be many ways to subvert and avoid such censorship by a variety of communication tricks], to rip the ignorance away [and possibly some of their arrogance] to put the sollies on the defense psychologically, to leave them wondering what else they are ignorant of; ie preparing them for the later revelations including these that follow here:
1. First and Second New Tuscany should be near the top of the list; indicating the SL's and SLN's attitude towards other nations and navies.
I've posted before that the fleeing freighters from NT ought to have been able to get some sensor imagery showing a FF BC getting blown away from 40 million km, well beyond the SLN's missile range, and could have gotten free drinks in most of the pubs or taverns of the verge if not the shell, if they were careful, that was about a year ago, how many systems could they have visited, with many more copies being made and spread by other freighters each time as it gets to a new system, so how many systems have been visited by some freighter that claims to have "original" imagery of Byng getting blitzed?
Then there are the freighters who visited Spindle while the two trophy BC's were there that can corroborate 2nd NT actually happened.
2. Then there are the SL newsies that 'saw' the BoS; all the imagery of the 'discussions' between Crandall et al, visited the surrendered ships, talked with captured crews, possibly Admiral Cleary before she left etc; some of whom may be a mite miffed at being insulted as being part of some SEM trick; what that leads to will also be interesting.
Then there are all the freighters who saw it and spread it around, darn few of them headed to Sol, so their news will be the first for most of their viewers, and its been almost a year, so how many in the verge have now heard or seen that imagery?
3. Then there is Cachat and Zilwicki's "Mission to Mesa", as it will probably be known,
that changed all the preconceptions about Manpower and Mesa; which has to be explained to minimize the potential misunderstanding while emphasizing the MAlign's plans, possibly with the Streak Drive confirmed by Aldona's trips between Mesa, Meyers, and NT etc.4. Oyster Bay; which must explain what happened and what didn't, yet also emphasize the SL's reaction; an admission that they didn't and couldn't do it, yet didn't much care who did it or why or how but was really willing to take advantage of it to attack the SEM when it might be depressed or discouraged, ie the attitude more of a jackal or vulture or pirate than the nominal leaders of civilized humanity.
5. Nolan, Zunker, and Saltash: Nolan; SLN FF willingness to fire on merchant ships, followed by -Case Buccaneer-, since Governor Medusa mentioned it explain it to the curious in the protectorates, verge and shell.
Zunker; clear case of OFS sending FF to possible deaths and RMN restraint.
Saltash; Typical blatant misuse of power by OFS governor, 4 FF BC's destroyed by 5 RMN DD's, recovery of crews and ships, no evidence for any of Governor's claims.
Maybe the ship owner's will claim Duenas's out system wealth and pension for their lost profits.
6. 2nd BoM; the SEM knew Filaretta was coming, tried to get Kolokoltsov to send somebody to order him to stand down and he repeatedly refused.
All the imagery from HA-H and Filaretta etc, I think the theory needs to be put out as one possible explanation, not by the GA leadership but one analyst among others.
7. Beowulf and Admiral Tsang; Imagery of admirals Simpson and Tsang being SL bullies, Beowulf's and Truman's responses.
8. Humiliation of Beowulf for saving SLN lives by the Mandarins, how corrupt the EC and everything on Terra is.
Beowulf's response; we quit.
9. Expected defeat of SLN at Beowulf; subtext you can't quit, we said so; but the GA begs to differ...
The mandarins may try 4-500 SD's this time, for around half of active BF captured or destroyed etc, with some damage to civilian property and lives that indicate again SL not worthy to be humanity's leader or assumed protector.
10. Mobius etc [Loomis when the GA finally visits]; exactly what OFS and FF do in the protectorates, why the SL doesn't have any friends out there.
11. Which provides the pretext to destroy the SLN reserves, their major bases and shipyards.
12. What is your system's decision? Where do you stand?
If you have more ideas, please feel free to share.
L
PS: what do you think are the top 3 or 4?
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