The bombing of Cork

[bluntpencil2001]

Official Molly Republic stance (Sprolf or Mike, feel free to smack me if I got something wrong):

Planet Cork was put in-game when system standards were lower than they are now, so you could get away with putting in things that didn't make a whole lot of sense. The Mollys, a ragtag lot of miners, creating mass settlements on a planet within several years of discovering it is silly, as is "nuking" an entire planet. So we just assume that there were some mining colonies planetside that got nuked, while the rest of the planet is uninhabitable/worthless anyway (Cork's infocard is really vague about, well, everything, and we're trying to get it changed).

In that light, we don't view the bombing of Cork as some horrible nuclear holocaust, but more as a really inconsiderate thing thing the Corsairs did that was very not nice. Those jerks. And on that note - probably none of the other Houses paid much attention to it.

Like I said, this is the Molly Republic's stance which is based on nothing more than lots of headache-fueled discussion, so you can look at it differently if you want. Until the infocards for Cork and everything else in Londonderry are changed to reflect some common sense you should really take Cork's backstory with a grain of salt.

So we ignore some infocards and cherrypick what is right and what isn't?

By that same token, I could argue that Omega 49 was added was added when system standards were lower.

Also, remember to note that the Cork infocard paints the nuking as an atrocity, since it is made to b the Mollys symbol of who their true enemies are.

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