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The Battletech Forums Fleet
« on: 04 April 2015, 20:20:48 »
Alright, so the idea behind this is based on conversations my brother and I have, in which we try to come up with silly names for Warships.  Basically, the idea is pick ONE Warship Class (or Jumpship, or Dropship, I'm not picky), and give it a name (and a suitably silly backstory if you wish).  Eventually, we will have a forum fleet, right?

So, for me:

The fact that JKLantern somehow QUALIFIED for Warship Captaincy was always something of a mystery, and worried the Commanding Officers in the fleet.  In an effort to keep him out of as much trouble as possible, they assigned him to a ship that existed in quantity, had relatively low armament, and relatively thin armor, hoping that this would encourage him to stay out of trouble.

In retrospect, handing him a ship with a massive amount of cargo space MAY have been a bad idea.


Upon being handed the Sovetskii Soyuz Class BFS Roger Wilco (a decrepit, barely functional ship named for an alleged space adventurer), Captain JKLantern immediately went on a mission to fill up the cargo bays with as much "neat junk" as he can find.  The fact that he has regularly been successful on these raids baffles his fellow Captains, especially because his targets rarely make any logical sense.  His reasoning is apparently. "Hey, you never know when you might need chicken hats."

Come on, join in the ridiculous fun!  And for the Love of Herb, somebody pick a rank higher than me!  We don't want me in charge of the fleet!

The Current Fleet:
Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Modified Tracker Class IMV/BFS Wandering Profit CO:  Captain Harvey Pillock (Sharpnel)

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Potemkin Class Troop Cruiser BFS Nightmare of Logistics-CO:  Captain Blaine "Khymerion" Roderick
« Last Edit: 07 April 2015, 18:34:20 by jklantern »
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #1 on: 04 April 2015, 21:06:40 »
After the 14th consecutive promotion board declined to select mikecj for promotion, the HR department (AKA Repple-Depple Command) assigned him to command the Mule-class Magnifico.  With a crew selected for the same level of expertise and accomplishments, the Magnifico shuttles from tedium to boredom and back, with an occasional side trip through the Monotony System.

The Magnifico is well known for delivering heaters and winter uniforms in March and air-conditioner units and summer uniforms in November.   The eleven times the loadmaster has issued carbon paper instead of toilet paper have led to several unfortunate friendly-fire incidents.  The delivery of a mixed cargo of expired rations and body bags to a remote outpost was actually a mistake at Quartermaster Command but no-one at all believes that story.
« Last Edit: 05 April 2015, 09:57:39 by mikecj »
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #2 on: 04 April 2015, 21:11:37 »
Fallen_Raven was given command of a Fox Corvette less to enable his innovative tactics than to minimize the damage they could do. Being an experienced armchair strategist was thin justification for promoting Captain Raven, but it was early in the fleet and no other candidates had stepped forward. As it is the BFS Pointless Venture has been valiantly going in random direction with no sensible goal until someone with a clue intervenes.
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« Reply #3 on: 04 April 2015, 22:21:51 »
On an unnamed backwater deep periphery world, Mayor Henry "Mad Hank" Fitzimmons, tired of seeing his people being raided again and again by pirate bands using his world as a buffet table and watering hole, started the worlds first space-program since being settled in the mid 2300s.  Much to his surprise (and subsequent joy) his tiny airforce stumbled upon a semi-functional star-league era spacedock hidden in the orbit of his world's only moon just days after their inaugural test-flight.  More importantly, the mayor was pleased to discover a mostly-functioning warship just bristling with cannons.  The newly christened Black Lion Class "Y'all Done Stepped In It" technically has the highest killrate of any bandit hunter in the inner sphere, all without ever leaving orbit (no one has figured out how to drive yet).

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« Reply #4 on: 04 April 2015, 22:23:57 »
On an unnamed backwater deep periphery world, Mayor Henry "Mad Hank" Fitzimmons, tired of seeing his people being raided again and again by pirate bands using his world as a buffet table and watering hole, started the worlds first space-program since being settled in the mid 2300s.  Much to his surprise (and subsequent joy) his tiny airforce stumbled upon a semi-functional star-league era spacedock hidden in the orbit of his world's only moon just days after their inaugural test-flight.  More importantly, the mayor was pleased to discover a mostly-functioning warship just bristling with cannons.  The newly christened Black Lion Class "Y'all Done Stepped In It" technically has the highest killrate of any bandit hunter in the inner sphere, all without ever leaving orbit (no one has figured out how to drive yet).

I swear, every Battletech character you ever make ends up named Hank.  Welcome to the forums.
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« Reply #5 on: 04 April 2015, 23:48:55 »
The IMV Wandering Profit [LINK] is a converted Tracker-class vessel saved from the breakers while in the middle of it being scrapped. With half of her engines removed, the former SLS Wanderer was saved by the Maersk Interstellar Shipping Corporation on behalf of the youngest scion of the Pillock family, the firm's largest stockholders. Once it relocated to Maersk's private dockyard, the Wandering Profit underwent a conversion to armed escort for the line's fleet of merchant ships. It took two years to make the necessary modifications to defend itself in the wild, wild space of the Periphery. The structural integrity was enhanced so that the hull could be re-skinned with 115 tons of ferro-lamellor armor and the addition of several capital grade weapons including a pair of AR-10 launchers, a pair of Light Naval PPCs and a quartet of Class 55 Naval Lasers. While not an impressive loadout, it should be enough to discourage all but the most desperate of pirates. In addition to the capital weaponry, the Wandering Profit mounts of vast array of secondary weapon to protect the ship from fighters, DropShips and missiles.

The ship managed to survive the breakup of the Maersk Corporation following the Amaris Usurpation and has passed through the hands of many members of the Pillock family until it fell into the hands of the young and cocksure Harvey Pillock. The ship has mysteriously survived the Succession Wars looking much the same as it did when it left the Maersk Dockyards at the beginning of the 28th century. It now plies the space lanes as a mercenary vessel carrying a mixed battalion in the slightly modified Mule-class vessels that it carries on it hardpoints.
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #6 on: 05 April 2015, 01:09:59 »
A non-canon fleet calls for a Non-canon class.  And if you're going to keep a Clan going you may as well do so with a WarShip  >:D my only problem is it's what the Smoke Jaguars did... oh well if you can't beat them join them.

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During the Jihad Clan Nova Cat commited a large amount of its touman including its full naval resources to Devlin Stone and his Coalition forces in their fight against the Word of Blake.  These forces served with distinction with the Coalition participating in a string of assaults which eventually led to the destruction of the Word of Blake.  Before that however Khan Santin West foresaw a problem for his Clan with all their WarShips fighting the Word of Blake the Nova Cats would be defended by the Draconis Combine and little else.  Instead of allowing this he turned to Star Captain Canin Rosse of the Nova Cat Watch.  Rosse had been one of the first pilots of the Wight Dezgra model of BattleMech and cared little for his own honour however even Rosse was surprised at Santin West's command.

Assigned command of an Invader-class JumpShip with three DropShips full of techs and crewmen culled from the various WarShips of the Nova Cat fleet Canin Rosse led his people wider than the Exodus Road back to the Clan Homeworlds marking the first Nova Cat return to the Homeworlds.  Instead of heading to any of the planet's the single Invader entered one of the Clan's WarShip Caches finding a relitively intact Avatar-class Cruiser.  Abandoning their JumpShip the three DropShips boarded the Liberator and began to restore the ship to functionality.  Working around the clock for eight days straight the Nova Cats listened as the Homeworlds around them were sucked into the Wars of Reaving.

With their WarShip barely operational the Nova Cats moved their craft clear of the cache only to encounter two Bandit Caste JumpShips at the jump point.  Scrambling to get the weapons working the Nova Cats destroyed both JumpShips but not before their WarShip was boarded by members of the bandit caste.  The fighting onboard was brutal continuing for nearly six hours as the two sides engaged in hand to hand combat.  Canin Rosse took his Wight BattleMech along the external hull of the WarShip picking off the bandit caste boarding craft as his people fought off invaders inside allowing the Avatar-class vessel to jump.

With the existing damage caused to the Avatar and the need to avoid Clan patrols the Avatar's journey took nearly two years to return to the Inner Sphere.  During this the crew converted the gravity deck into a food production area and named the vessel the Liger.  Arriving in the Inner Sphere in 3074 the vessel covertly communicated with Khan West who ordered them not to reveal themselves to any Nova Cat or Draconis Combine authority instead he directed them to the Chainelane Isle and to fight a trial with Clan Diamond Shark for use of their shipyard facilities.

There following Canin Rosse's victory against the Diamond Sharks the techs helped modify the vessel into a new class known as the Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser replacing the weapons array and armour.  Due to the troubles of the Jihad this process took nearly seven years.  With the Jihad winding down the vessel took up position in the Oort Cloud of the Irece system hidden from view.  Unlike the other WarShips of the fleet the vessel remained with Clan Nova Cat following the formation of the Republic of the Sphere waiting until it was needed.

With the outbreak of the Second Dominion/Combine War the crew of the Liger expected to be called to service but instead they remained hidden following orders from Santin West to wait until they knew they were needed.  With the falling of the Dark Age and the Combine's turning on the remaining Nova Cats the crew knew that their time had come.  Communicating with contacts in the Nova Cats Watch who had remained on the planet's surface Canin Rosse arranged to pick up hundreds of survivors and members of the Watch from Irece before evacuating the Irece Prefecture.

In the Periphery Canin Rosse and his crew realize that they are the last members of Clan Nova Cat.  They have renamed their WarShip Extinction Event to reflect the events they have lived through and have taken to raiding the Rasalhague Dominion and Draconis Combine making them pay for the damage they caused to their Clan while trading with the Sea Foxes for supplies to keep them operational.  Canin Rosse is technically the highest ranking Nova Cat survivor however he has refused to take the title of Khan.  There has been some talk about moving to join the Spirit Cat survivors in the Free Worlds League but their proximity to the Wolves has so far made the Nova Cats oboard wary.

Five of the six DropShip Collars on the Extinction Event are taken up with DropShips holding civilians the sixth has an Overlord-class DropShip which carries their only ground element, the Watch Cluster.  Three stars of aerospace fighter bays support the ship.

http://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/techlab/anna-rosse-class-battle-cruiser/
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #7 on: 05 April 2015, 01:23:24 »
jklantern hope you don't mind I've hijacked/borrowed you idea and posted this up on the OBT forum as well so hopefully there will be 2 fleets.

http://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/units/the-ourbattletech-forum-fleet/
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #8 on: 05 April 2015, 08:17:46 »
jklantern hope you don't mind I've hijacked/borrowed you idea and posted this up on the OBT forum as well so hopefully there will be 2 fleets.

http://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/units/the-ourbattletech-forum-fleet/

Wait, there are OTHER Battletech Forums?   ;)

I don't mind in the slightest!  This is meant to be fun, and more people means more fun!
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« Reply #9 on: 05 April 2015, 18:31:56 »
McKenna Class- Subtlety To this day it is still not known how Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich and his crew got the ship, but it is fairly obvious how they keep it. The McKenna Class ship is supposedly, unarmed, but not even Comstar has ever wanted to test this theory. Leroy-Dietrich and his crew are the lead element in the flotilla of jumpships, all but the Subtlety civilian craft, that make up the traveling mercenary academy, Pofitable Training College Of Military Arts.

Leroy-Dietrich is known for being "eccentric" as well as being "bat-crap crazy," but while on duty his is a force to be reckoned with. His crew made up of 60 percent veteran to elite crewmen and 40 percent cadets carries on regular combat drills as part of the academy's curriculum. Graduates are considered among the most sought after civilian jumpship and assault dropship crews.

Rumors that during firing drills, Leroy-Dietrich follows firing orders by making "pew, pew" noises have not been confirmed.
« Last Edit: 06 April 2015, 13:31:28 by Drewbacca »

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #10 on: 05 April 2015, 23:42:01 »
http://bg.battletech.com/forums/aerospace/tony-manero-class-cruiser-(dragoncat's-battletech-forum-fleet-thread)/

The tale of the recovered WarShip Tony Manero is an exercise in serendipity.  Originally constructed by the pre-Reunification War Taurian Concordat, this 770,000-ton Cruiser was one-of-a-kind.  More specifically, the TCN quickly came to view this ship as a boondoggle and cancelled all subsequent orders.

Although larger and better protected than existing Winchester-class Cruisers, the high unusual and homogenous armament (consisting of 160 NL-35 naval lasers!!) failed to impress the Taurians.  Considering the expense already sunk into the ship, the disguisted Admirals and Marshals did not even consider filling out the paperwork to send the vessel for scrap.

No records remain of her service during the Reunification Wars (in fact, her original name is lost to history as well).  Indeed, no records of this ship survived the Wars and the Star League Occupation afterwards.  The only evidence of her existence is the accidental discovery of a derelict vessel adrift in barren star system along the Taurian Rim.

In 3066, a scoundrel by the name of Arminas (it is unknown whether this is his first, last, or only name) fleeing Davion authorities in a dilapidated Merchant-class JumpShip choose for his destination the exact jump-point where this derelict rested.

A quick survey revealed that the ship had been opened to vacuum and powered down; apparently abandoned by her crew.

Drawing upon contacts with a number of desperate (yet highly skilled) individuals (including Chief Engineer Irose, Quartermaster Blacknova, and general gopher MechRat), Arminas (now calling himself Master Arminas) managed to get this ship working once again.

Re-christened as Tony Manero (after an ancient legend of a Terran dancer) the ship began a reign of terror along the Taurian Rim, plaguing Concordat, Magistracy, Capellan, Marik, and Davion worlds alike.  Unlike many pirates, the Disco Kings (as this band called themselves) sought out only rare musical albums and gifted (cursed?) singers/dancers for a style of music known as either 'disco' or 'funk'.

Upon learning that the Clans might well possess archives of such rarity, the Disco Kings departed for the Clan Homeworlds in their Cruiser . . . having purchased the route taken by Task Force Serpent.  They have not been heard from since.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #11 on: 06 April 2015, 08:11:16 »
http://bg.battletech.com/forums/aerospace/tony-manero-class-cruiser-(dragoncat's-battletech-forum-fleet-thread)/

The tale of the recovered WarShip Tony Manero is an exercise in serendipity.  Originally constructed by the pre-Reunification War Taurian Concordat, this 770,000-ton Cruiser was one-of-a-kind.  More specifically, the TCN quickly came to view this ship as a boondoggle and cancelled all subsequent orders.

Although larger and better protected than existing Winchester-class Cruisers, the high unusual and homogenous armament (consisting of 160 NL-35 naval lasers!!) failed to impress the Taurians.  Considering the expense already sunk into the ship, the disguisted Admirals and Marshals did not even consider filling out the paperwork to send the vessel for scrap.

No records remain of her service during the Reunification Wars (in fact, her original name is lost to history as well).  Indeed, no records of this ship survived the Wars and the Star League Occupation afterwards.  The only evidence of her existence is the accidental discovery of a derelict vessel adrift in barren star system along the Taurian Rim.

In 3066, a scoundrel by the name of Arminas (it is unknown whether this is his first, last, or only name) fleeing Davion authorities in a dilapidated Merchant-class JumpShip choose for his destination the exact jump-point where this derelict rested.

A quick survey revealed that the ship had been opened to vacuum and powered down; apparently abandoned by her crew.

Drawing upon contacts with a number of desperate (yet highly skilled) individuals (including Chief Engineer Irose, Quartermaster Blacknova, and general gopher MechRat), Arminas (now calling himself Master Arminas) managed to get this ship working once again.

Re-christened as Tony Manero (after an ancient legend of a Terran dancer) the ship began a reign of terror along the Taurian Rim, plaguing Concordat, Magistracy, Capellan, Marik, and Davion worlds alike.  Unlike many pirates, the Disco Kings (as this band called themselves) sought out only rare musical albums and gifted (cursed?) singers/dancers for a style of music known as either 'disco' or 'funk'.

Upon learning that the Clans might well possess archives of such rarity, the Disco Kings departed for the Clan Homeworlds in their Cruiser . . . having purchased the route taken by Task Force Serpent.  They have not been heard from since.

No need for making my own WarShip, I'm part of the most feared and totally cool WarShip crew in the whole Human Sphere! 8) Don't $*%& with da funk! ;D

(Thanks MA!)

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« Reply #12 on: 06 April 2015, 08:22:06 »
Maybe your twin can have a ship MechRat
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« Reply #13 on: 06 April 2015, 10:23:08 »
Maybe your twin can have a ship MechRat

Maybe... I'm not sure if that would be the good or evil twin. ;)

However, I have no clue how to design a WarShip nor the rulebooks to do so. So I think I'll just leave it at this.

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« Reply #14 on: 06 April 2015, 10:35:35 »
Maybe... I'm not sure if that would be the good or evil twin. ;)

However, I have no clue how to design a WarShip nor the rulebooks to do so. So I think I'll just leave it at this.

You could just go with a canon design - there's no need for it to be a custom design me and MA are just having fun - what's your favourite JumpShip, WarShip or DropShip pick it, find a crew and come up with an excellent name
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #15 on: 06 April 2015, 10:54:19 »
Jack "Kasaga" Ryan Captain of the IMS Halcyon a Davion IIA-class Destroyer.  Operating as a mercenary ship hiring out to lead flotilla's of JumpShips into hostile space within the Chaos March the Halcyon is suspected of being a rouge Legion ship.  Why the Legion has not hunted the ship down and retaken or destroyed her remains a mystery. 

Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan is suspected of being the son of Duke Michael Ryan commander of the Legion.  This may be why the Halcyon has remained independent and well supplied of the Legion.  Kasaga has made a habit of escorting humanitarian ships into hostile space.  What the future holds remains a mystery.  Rumors of Kasaga and the Halcyon being sighted alongside the Nova Cat's Anna Rosse-class Battlecruiser CNC Extinction Event.  The ship may possibly be escorting the ship protecting it from Combine warships.

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/aerospace/davion-iia-class-destroyer-project-legion/
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« Reply #16 on: 06 April 2015, 21:19:34 »
Maybe... I'm not sure if that would be the good or evil twin. ;)

However, I have no clue how to design a WarShip nor the rulebooks to do so. So I think I'll just leave it at this.

Hey, I'm totally using a vanilla Soyuz.  Because there's just something I love about that less than optimally designed baby!
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« Reply #17 on: 06 April 2015, 21:49:51 »
Maybe... I'm not sure if that would be the good or evil twin. ;)

However, I have no clue how to design a WarShip nor the rulebooks to do so. So I think I'll just leave it at this.

Sheesh- I'm driving a Mule; its the smallest hunk of junk out here...
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« Reply #18 on: 06 April 2015, 21:55:52 »
Sheesh- I'm driving a Mule; its the smallest hunk of junk out here...

I kinda regret not assigning myself to a Dropship, or a Vanilla Jumpship.
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« Reply #19 on: 07 April 2015, 00:54:05 »
Liam Geist, commander of the Congress-D class frigate Delusions of Grandeur. A self proclaimed pirate lord far better known for for his works of bad fiction than his fighting skill, he operates on the fringes of the periphery from a wide variety of worlds he has personally charted out, in many respects operating less as a thieving cutthroat and more as an explorer, though he and his crew take considerable joy in attacking and looting poorly or un-defended targets within the interior of the Federated Suns. Said to be a rare Taurian Loyalist from the Pleiades worlds, he describes these raids as "collecting back-rent".
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #20 on: 07 April 2015, 02:11:09 »
The Current Fleet (Update):

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Modified Tracker Class IMV/BFS Wandering Profit CO:  Captain Harvey Pillock (Sharpnel)

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Potemkin-class Transport BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick
« Last Edit: 08 April 2015, 02:16:28 by Dragon Cat »
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https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #21 on: 07 April 2015, 07:42:21 »
Thanks, DC!  I would've updated last night, but between work, an upcoming Biochem Test (which is going to suck), and a minor back injury (kids, when doing a flip to stand up, be sure to actually USE YOUR HANDS), I was kinda wiped last night!
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #22 on: 07 April 2015, 07:55:30 »
You could just go with a canon design - there's no need for it to be a custom design me and MA are just having fun - what's your favourite JumpShip, WarShip or DropShip pick it, find a crew and come up with an excellent name

I'll definitely consider creating something, but it will be a little while before I can devote serious thought to it. I'm getting married in 2 weeks and after that I'll be dedicating some serious brain power to learn how to keep the OBT site running for Knightmare, so I'm a little preoccupied at the moment...  #P
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #23 on: 07 April 2015, 10:21:49 »
I'll definitely consider creating something, but it will be a little while before I can devote serious thought to it. I'm getting married in 2 weeks and after that I'll be dedicating some serious brain power to learn how to keep the OBT site running for Knightmare, so I'm a little preoccupied at the moment...  #P

You have my congratulations . . . or my condolences.  Whichever you prefer.  :)

Seriously, congrats, man.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #24 on: 07 April 2015, 13:56:01 »
Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick is the rather stern but borderline neurotic captain of the Nightmares of Logistics, a rather clean and maintained Potemkin class Troop Cruiser.   He paid out of pocket to have the ship immaculately painted and maintained and often with a reputation for tearing into dropship captains who scratch said paint job on the ship or dock too hard with a collar.   He has earned a reputation for keeping to a very tight schedule and not delaying a jump for any reason unless ordered to do so by a superior officer, often leaving behind dropships who were less than a half hour off once the scheduled jump time arrives.   "Be on time or don't bother coming at all" tends to be the last message to those cargo haulers that just can't get their acts together.   Has a tendency to have a high turn over in the crew due to the rather brutal work schedules maintained when it comes time to load or unload dropships but those who stick it out and become veterans get well treated during the quiet periods...  they just have to make it that long.   Has no tolerance for lazy or good for nothing crew members and will strand the failures on planets during orchestrated shore leaves rather than properly firing them.    But all in all, the gleaming white with green and purple trimmed Potemkin is not a bad ship to fly on.   At least it has a good music library and stereos liberally scattered through the halls, work areas, and cargo holds.

The ship has a reputation for hauling anything, anywhere, anytime though it tries very hard to avoid combat zones, as lasers tend to scratch the paint thus sticking to more quiet civilian routes bulk hauling materials from one manufacturing center to the next.
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #25 on: 07 April 2015, 15:51:10 »
Thanks, DC!  I would've updated last night, but between work, an upcoming Biochem Test (which is going to suck), and a minor back injury (kids, when doing a flip to stand up, be sure to actually USE YOUR HANDS), I was kinda wiped last night!

No worries I had spare time before bed this morning
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https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #26 on: 07 April 2015, 16:12:27 »
Hey DC I hope you don't mind me hitching my Destroyer along as escort for ya.  the IMS (It's My Ship) Halcyon was "close by" when your people made a run for it.  Also I like the Nova Cats from your AU.  I thought they got a bad break in cannon.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #27 on: 07 April 2015, 16:13:40 »
Hmm, I could go two ways on this one:

1.  The Black Lion I battlecruiser of Captain Giovanni Blasini.

2.  The Aquilla class JumpShip owned by Jayson O'Donoghue
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #28 on: 07 April 2015, 18:35:10 »
I'll definitely consider creating something, but it will be a little while before I can devote serious thought to it. I'm getting married in 2 weeks and after that I'll be dedicating some serious brain power to learn how to keep the OBT site running for Knightmare, so I'm a little preoccupied at the moment...  #P

Psh, CLEARLY getting married is not NEARLY as important as playing with imaginary spaceships with people on the INTERNET!

Congrats!   O0
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #29 on: 08 April 2015, 02:22:45 »
Hey DC I hope you don't mind me hitching my Destroyer along as escort for ya.  the IMS (It's My Ship) Halcyon was "close by" when your people made a run for it.  Also I like the Nova Cats from your AU.  I thought they got a bad break in cannon.

Nah it's cool the more they mix in with each other the more they're a fleet - it's why I listed yours after mine since they've been seen together.  Glad you like the AU - I'm sticking with there not dead unless they are forgotten

Hmm, I could go two ways on this one:

1.  The Black Lion I battlecruiser of Captain Giovanni Blasini.

2.  The Aquilla class JumpShip owned by Jayson O'Donoghue

Tough choice I'd be tempted with both but you're only allowed ONE...

I'll go with MA MechRat congratulations/condolences and a good luck

Thank's for the entry Khymerion I added to listings
My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3