NationStates Jolt Archive

What is it with you people? Quoar? Sedna? Other planetoid things? You're claiming useless specks of dust and ice! I heard someone mention nationalism, and the French in the Sahara.

Well, the French were in the Sahara because they thought there were natural resources, and to defend their proper colonies.

Sedna and Quoar are just useless! You didn't know either of them existed until a few weeks ago, (well, if you were an astromoner you might have known about Quoar) and now there's some land rush? This isn't RL, the colonial times. You're all nations that have flown out and established colonies outside the solar system! Do any of you have an IC reason for just now discovering this planet?

Therefore, and I don't care if it's unilateral, for NS purposes I'm ignoring the existence of Sedna, and any bases on Sedna. I won't listen to people who say that they stopped me from doing anything because their base on Sedna was real close.

I have news for you. Even if I wasn't ignoring it, Sedna would still be 51, 000 years travel away from my position. Unless you're really lucky.

So, have fun. It's the worst kind of stupidity, though.

Well, that's fine and dandy. We'll have our storyline, and we won't have to deal with you either. Funny how that works.

~Rep

*terraforms both "planets"*

It's MY rock! Mine Mine Mine!

not as bad as having like 5 different nations on mars' moon "Phobos"... a moon an astronaut could walk around in about 10 minutes...

Rep, feel free to look at it that way if you want. I just want my position clear now, so I don't have to deal with this rubbish later.

Like I said, there's at least hundreds of KBO's (Kuiper Belt Objects), and very likely thousands or even tens of thousands.

If you want one, make one up. It probably exists. :wink:

~Siri

Sedna and Quoar are just useless! You didn't know either of them existed until a few weeks ago, (well, if you were an astromoner you might have known about Quoar) and now there's some land rush?Actually, I knew about Quaoar and Varuna several months ago, and I'm not an astronomer. I just happen to pay attention to science news.
This isn't RL, the colonial times. You're all nations that have flown out and established colonies outside the solar system! Do any of you have an IC reason for just now discovering this planet?
Nope, which is why I'm RPing it as if I had known about it all along. I do, however, have a good reason for wanting an outpost there, which you pointed out yourself: It's a cold, remote, useless chunk of ice. Ergo, nobody will bother me there. Or at least that was the idea, until everybody decided to bother me there....