Newgrange? [Spoilers]

[President Jyrgunkarrd]

So... I guess we never find out what was up with the Newgrange? Aside from dude's son being the captain.

I mean, Victoria was guarding it for some reason, and then she thought we'd be mortified to discover what was the thing after we blew it up... but we never find out. Unless I missed it, somehow?

 

[Bilbo999]

You said it yourself. Killing the Dude's son brought the Taurian Concordant into the war.

 

[Socratatus]

For all we know there really were innocent people in that ship and we just committed mass murder, but we have no choice but to obey in this game. The ship pleaded mercy, the white haired woman seemed quite upset when the ship went down saying, "You don`t know what you`ve done!"

I don`t think that Lady financing us is anyway as innocent as she pretends to be. If this game actually gave me options I would definitely be turning to her and saying, "Nope, not shooting until I really know what`s in that ship!"

Reminds me of a Baldur`s Gate questline where a woman wanted our party to kill a bunch of Mercs because they were `murderers` and just before we were going to, I thought it seemed suspicious so I said, "No!" and it turned out that the `Mercs` were just innocent Traders who she didn`t pay.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

War and the necessity to win often causes sides to perform actions (and take risks) that may or may not be very ethical or heroic. This especially seems to ring true in the BattleTech universe and double so in the razor thin line between civility and lawlessness that makes up the frontier Periphery.

I'm glad we will never truly know what the Newgrange was carrying. It allows us to question whether that decision was the right call or not. That makes things a bit more interesting in my opinion.

 

[Wissenschaft]

That guys son was in charge of smuggling weapons from the Taurian Concordant to the Directorate. There may well have been innocents in the dropship as well. Reminds me of real life, the US got into WW1 because of merchant ships being sunk and innocent people being killed. However, much latter in the 1980s, the British government admitted that ships like the Lusitania, did have a LOT of ammunition on them and were a major risk to salvage operations. Turns out the Germans were right in WW1.

I assume the situation is much the same in game. The directorate had concentration camps, so they were terrible. But did we just kill a dropship full of civilians and smuggled weapons of war? It adds a little bit of gray to the story.

 

[Khyron83]

Given what had been revealed prior to the mission. The attack on the Taurian. The importing of Draconis Combine equipment, and Victoria mech was mentioned to be from the Draconis Combine.

Going into the mission I was thinking "Hey this could be a Draconis Combine special operations group sparking a war between Davion and Taurian Concordant to weaken them for the 4th succession war. Useing the directorate as a scapegoat."

When the pleading started my thought was. "Crap bet they are exporting slaves, and importing the weapons/gear."

After the Mission I had the remembered. "Wait the successor state financing the Arano Resistance has a slave economy."