The bombing of Cork

[Athenian]

Cork, Cork, Cork. The first time I heard about Cork it was kind of interesting. However by this point I just want people to put a [Cork] in it. As far as I'm aware there wasn't much if any RP about the Cork bombing, similar to the Cambridge bombing.

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.

The real-world Cork city (in Irish it's called Corcaigh, from the Gaelic corcach meaning swamp, as the city is built on an island between two channels of a river) was , in fact, burned. Whoever included a burned Planet Cork in the Molly system was inspired. Shame on you for not doing your research.

The Cork (place)/cork (wood usually used to make a stopper) joke is funny as hell. You should claim copyright on it.

http://www.corkcorp.ie/aboutcork/historyof...eburningofcork/

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