The Scorpion Empire: All your Warhawks are belong to us

[truetanker]

Why not Fast Recon?

TT

[Nerroth]

As requested, I moved that last part of the Seeker discussion to its own thread, in case anyone here is interested.

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According to Operational Turning Points: Hanseatic Crusade, the initial settlement of the colony world now known as Holdout was overseen by the Third Imperial Guards Cluster, which was five Trinaries in strength at the onset of the attack by RDF 2. Although, it"s not clear if the Guards were a part of Omega Galaxy at the time, or if they were a PGC specifically drawn up for deployment to this world.

Also, Spotlight On: Hellion Keshik speaks of how that unit was on-station at what was then the new colony of Graystone when they were faced with a pirate attack on that colony.

Plus, there is that story in Shrapnel - I forget in which issue - where the fate of the last ProtoMech pilot in the Imperio was told. I'm fairly sure that took place on one of the "new' colony planets - though I forget which one...

While during the Hanseatic Crusade itself, the Hansa counterattacks against Hallelujah, Glory, and Graystone each played out differently, though it is noted that the RGC on Graystone had been reduced to a single Binary, as the rest of the Cluster had been sent off-world to reinforce the three border colonies. (Perhaps for that reason, the HDF attack on Hallelujah was successfully driven off.)

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All told, there should be plenty of opportunities to see detachments from across the touman being deployed to the new colonies, as well as for new PGCs to be commissioned for the express purpose of protecting each world as it develops.

[Doc Swift]

The PGCs on those colony worlds were intended as a deterrent against Hanseatic League raiders. There's much less threat now, so there would probably be less incentive to assign sizable defense forces to such sites. As to whether or not they are still colonizing, such efforts would probably take a back seat to exploiting the former League worlds in proper Clan fashion.

[Fire Scorpion IIC]

True, there are a lot of Hansa planets that need working on

Some light colonization is still taking place

Gottenring was a new one from Moving Forward

Also from Star Python writeup in RecGuides we know that Scorpions called dibs on Kinbrace very recently

[Weirdo]

Had entire post thought out, but neither the world nor my brain will shut up long enough to string it all together.

Proto Point is very good idea, will probably drop no more than one infantry Point for them. Thanks, forgot this was during the golden age.

2 Trackbikes to a Point, because tiny vees are still vees.

Track instead of hover because unless you can tell from orbit that the area has a lot of waterways, tracks are better for scouting across rugged, unfamiliar land.

Doesn't have to be garrison for entire colony, could just be solahma group guarding an isolated settlement, or whatever makes sense in your head.

No more than 1 Star + Air in size, not looking to see this grow too big.

What colors? Omega Galaxy, one of the second line ones, Grunt Caste?

[Weirdo]

Thinking more, really liking the idea of ProtoMechs in new colonies, because like big mechs they've got hands and lifting abilities for general work, but probably need less infrastructure than full mechs.

[Nerroth]

I double-checked, and Dying Breed is in Shrapnel #12.

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Since the above story is set in 3099, any PGC with even one ProtoMech present (other than the one featured in the story itself, that is) would probably have to be set in the early-to-mid-3090s, at the latest.

Also, if it is to appear on one of the "new" colony worlds, it would quite likely have to be Graystone. Note that the world eventually known as Holdout - which itself is said to be only the third new colony world in the region - does not begin to be settled until 3112. So that would mean Greystone was either the first or second of the new colonies.

(Perhaps Winston was the other one to be founded prior to Holdout, given its location relative to the nearest "old" Nueva Castile systems?)

That said, it's noted that the 314th PGC had been on-world at least long enough to have been depleted by a Hansa-backed privateer raid early in 3099. (As in, the raid dramatized n the Shrapnel story was the second to take place on Greystone that same year.) So if you wanted a "named" force to go with, they'd be a reasonable candidate.

[tassa_kay]

3099, the year the Scorpions stopped being as cool. It was a glorious 25 years, wasn’t it, Weirdo?

[Fire Scorpion IIC]

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What colors? Omega Galaxy, one of the second line ones, Grunt Caste?

Colonial militia without militia mechs is like cheeseburger without cheese

Couple of Quixote Industries staple products would definitely fit right in (and would be practically given away since that's their whole design requirement)

As for colors standard SLDF green would be quite appropriate, practical and nostalgic

Or a cammo pattern that fits local environment, personally I would just say that they work in arctic area as an excuse to paint them in winter cammo, I love that style

White/blue/grey all the way

[Weirdo]

Colonial militia without militia mechs is like cheeseburger without cheese

I live in the US. That's already true of 90% of the so-called cheeseburgers in this country.

I'd love to include militiamechs in this, but at this point we start to run out of Points in this Star. I *really* want to have the infantry and the small support vees, and stuff like that really only becomes useful in numbers.