Empire of the Nerds: The Niops Association Thread

[Arkansas Warrior]

Well with the reunification of FWL, is taking old league worlds really good idea for the MH? I mean even weaken as it is the FWL is a bit more for the MH to take on.

The FWL isn't weakened, it's gone.  None of the remnant states are going to attacks the Hegemony for picking up a few independent worlds, they're too busy fighting each other, or fighting for survival against encroaching foreign powers.

[Archangel]

The FWL isn't weakened, it's gone.  None of the remnant states are going to attacks the Hegemony for picking up a few independent worlds, they're too busy fighting each other, or fighting for survival against encroaching foreign powers.

I believe cavalier1685 is talking about the reunification of the FWL under Captain Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik (talk about a mouthful) in 3139.  Which, of course, is more than half a century after the post-Jihad time period we were discussing.

[cavalier1645]

I believe cavalier1685 is talking about the reunification of the FWL under Captain Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik (talk about a mouthful) in 3139.  Which, of course, is more than half a century after the post-Jihad time period we were discussing.

Yes I am didn't know what time period your discussing my bad :)

[Col.Hengist]

Thatsnot happening for a long time. Rhere are no psychics in the game so they can't look 60 years in the future to see that the FWL gets back togerher. They're doing what is good for what they forsee for their future.

[Giovanni Blasini]

So, now that Era Report 3145 has not only confirmed that Niops has lost any battlearmor/PA(L) production facilities, and has assigned them the Periphery RAT with a -1 modifier (same as the other little Periphery powers), anyone care to speculate on what kind of production, and what likely designs, Niops has been able to recover by the 3130s-3145 range?

[chanman]

Bubbamechs. All Bubbamechs All the time.

[Cik]

hi guys, what's a niops association?

[Kit deSummersville]

hi guys, what's a niops association?

This.

[tapdancingbeavers]

That looks rather like a google, not a niops! :P

(They both sound like fantastical creatures though.)

[Death by Zeus]

 ;D Kit....smartass...... ;D

[truetanker]

Hey he's a writer, give him some slack. So he took the hard way out.

TT  O0

[chanman]

hi guys, what's a niops association?

In no particular non-canon order...

[Niopsian]

I never really saw us as NOD... ???

Crazy Tesla Coil wielding Red Alert Soviets, maybe. ;D

[chanman]

I never really saw us as NOD... ???

Crazy Tesla Coil wielding Red Alert Soviets, maybe. ;D

He's a reasonable visual stand-in for Col Gorky Zubok. Although I suppose there's also Yuri

[Giovanni Blasini]

...wow. It just occurred to me that I was still working at my last job when FGC-verse was, like, active and well-known. That was, what, 2009? 2010?

[chanman]

...wow. It just occurred to me that I was still working at my last job when FGC-verse was, like, active and well-known. That was, what, 2009? 2010?

Yes. I was doing my technical writing cert at the time, so that is the correct time frame.

[glitterboy2098]

This.

i find it funny this thread is the 2nd result on that search. there really isn't much on niops is there?

[Kit deSummersville]

i find it funny this thread is the 2nd result on that search. there really isn't much on niops is there?

Pretty fringy even for BattleTech.

[Niopsian]

Pretty fringy even for BattleTech.

What we lack in numbers we make up for with obnoxiousness, er, enthusiasm.

Yeah, that's it.

[Giovanni Blasini]

Hey, what other faction has elves in UrbanMechs?

[Col.Hengist]

Hey, what other faction has elves in UrbanMechs?

 The Jarn folk?

[Nerroth]

The JàrnFòlk have no BattleMechs.

[Giovanni Blasini]

I thought they were Space Vikings, too.

[ANS Kamas P81]

What we lack in numbers we make up for with obnoxiousness, er, enthusiasm.

Yeah, that's it.

That's obniopsiousness.

[Arkansas Warrior]

I thought they were Space Vikings, too.

Well, elves do come from pretty much the same Northern European over-culture as the Vikings.

[glitterboy2098]

So, now that Era Report 3145 has not only confirmed that Niops has lost any battlearmor/PA(L) production facilities, and has assigned them the Periphery RAT with a -1 modifier (same as the other little Periphery powers), anyone care to speculate on what kind of production, and what likely designs, Niops has been able to recover by the 3130s-3145 range?

i'd love to speculate.. but i don't have the Periphery RAT's with which to base my speculations on. :(

i would imagine that Niops is now limited to whatever they can buy/steal/salvage the same way other small periphery nations are, though i would hope that the remains of their once mighty workshops could at least be up to the task of building spare parts.


hmm.. we know in the past Niops could build copies of SLDF mechs. even after their workshop based industry got damaged so badly, why couldn't they be able to produce mechs still, just at a less complex tech level? they should be able to build Primitives at the very least. those should require less resources and less work to build than SLDF level stuff.
something on par with a Primative TDR-1C Thunderbolt should be easily within their reach.

i would hope however that they still have some SLDF tech units tooling around to provide backbone to their forces..

[truetanker]

I can see them producing a SLDF Royal every 6 months or so, by hand. With another 3 micro-factories producing 3 more non-SLDF tech.

TT

[Col.Hengist]

The JàrnFòlk have no BattleMechs.

 Wow... it was a joke...

[Nerroth]

One thing I picked up on from earlier in the thread is the issue of the Capellan refugees' ethnicity/culture.

According to the AToW data in ER:3145, the secondary languages listed are Arabic, Bulgarian, and Urdu. I'm not sure if there's a similar entry for the Association in FM:3085, however.

[hpackrat]

Out of curiosity, how close is the Niops Association from Novo Franklin? The fluff says that its only a few light years away & within easy reach. That implies that they're within one or two jumps of each other. Would that mean Novo Franklin is close to the FWL border?