It’s a hero extraction shooter, think Tarkov or Arc Raiders

Etching runes onto stone by blasting little bits of metal into miniature suns.

Just wait until they learn about EUV photolithography

The vampires layer

Operating the vessel under a false flag is illegal, making the ship count as stateless and able to be boarded by anyone. The US allegation is that the Guyana flag was a false flag and the transfer of registration to Russia was illegal/null, therefore the ship can be boarded without permission in international waters.

Regardless of this case, there is the larger trend of these “shadow fleets” operating outside of international laws under the direction of their true home countries. They use international waters as a safe zone to avoid enforcement, along with tricks like flag-hopping, deactivating or spoofing their transponders, and moving cargo ship-to-ship in international waters to avoid entering a national territory. These shadow fleets are also implicated in deliberately damaging underwater cables, and in China’s case are used for illegal fishing which damages fisheries across the globe.

What I’m saying is that if the country of registry fails to enforce maritime law on the ships under their flag, or if they in fact encourage/direct the vessels to break these laws, then there are gaps in maritime law and enforcement of it. Nowhere did I say that the US is justified in breaking laws to enforce other laws, but I think it’s understandable why vigilante justice gains the support that it does.

The truth is most likely that the ship is part of the Russian shadow fleet. It may have been pretending to be registered in Guyana, then changed to Russia when they were caught out.

To my mind, the question is “does an enforcement gap exist in maritime law regarding these ships, and should the US be filling that gap?”

The aging, rusting tanker, originally called the Bella 1, was sanctioned by the US in 2024 for operating within a “shadow fleet” of tankers transporting illicit Iranian oil.

Last month the US Coast Guard attempted to seize the vessel while it was heading to Venezuela to pick up oil, then operating under the flag of Guyana. But the ship’s crew refused to be boarded and made an abrupt turn into the Atlantic.

The Bella 1’s crew later painted a Russian flag on its side, and it appeared in a Russian shipping register under a new name, the Marinera.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/russia-oil-tanker-seizure-what-we-know-intl-hnk

Article 92 Status of ships

1. Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only and, save in exceptional cases expressly provided for in international treaties or in this Convention, shall be subject to its exclusive jurisdiction on the high seas. ** A ship may not change its flag during a voyage or while in a port of call, save in the case of a real transfer of ownership or change of registry.**
2. A ship which sails under the flags of two or more States, using them according to convenience, may not claim any of the nationalities in question with respect to any other State, and may be assimilated to a ship without nationality.

Is this the one that changed its name and flag to Russia while underway (very illegal), and got a RU submarine escort?

Barbarian: “I cast iron!”

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While that’s fair, there does exist pain for which you can’t really imagine much worse at that moment. For me those have been kidney stones and a broken femur.

I can’t make up my mind on whether or not a social justice thief would be based.

I have the color note air 3 and it’s great for reading ebooks, comics, and manga and also for taking notes. And because it’s unlocked android I can use my choice of e-reader and sideload Mihon or other apps.

Ultimately they are a chemicals company, and they have other chemical operations that are propping them up.

In 2020, Kodak had a brief moment of reprieve when the US government tapped it to transform into a pharmaceutical ingredients producer.

Well, yeah. The popemobile has bullet resistant glass. Can’t have that protecting those evil medics or their terrorist patients, now can we?