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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #150 on: 17 February 2022, 02:05:13 »
Don't know how I missed this before.  Looks good, and am reading it now

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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #151 on: 17 February 2022, 19:09:00 »

The minor fixes from the RS have been applied to the XTRO and I have created a PDF and a combined file for those that prefer that.

See opening post.
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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #152 on: 17 February 2022, 20:56:01 »
Battletech Fanon Wiki has updated it's links to book and it's record sheets.  I have backup for the book just in case.
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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #153 on: 17 February 2022, 22:55:47 »
The minor fixes from the RS have been applied to the XTRO and I have created a PDF and a combined file for those that prefer that.

See opening post.

A few spelling and grammar errors I spotted in this file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9y3l4d3cm549ku/Society%20XTRO.pdf?dl=0

p3, 5th paragraph starting with "The revolt":
"our surviving the fleet redirected"
should be:
"our surviving fleet redirected"

p3, 6th paragraph starting with "The last":
"from finding out the true extend of our"
should be:
"from finding out the true extent of our"

p6, 1st paragraph:
"This required emptying out Brain Caches"
should be:
"This required emptying out Brian Caches"

p6, 2nd paragraph:
"quality part, the loses among these"
should be:
"quality part, the losses among these"

p7, middle column, 2nd paragraph:
"as is a “Pretend Mech” in"
should be:
"as it is a “Pretend Mech” in"

p13, "Notable Units":
"finished being build when"
should be:
"finished being built when"

p19, "Notable Units":
"done anything of noteworthy"
should be either:
"done anything noteworthy" or "done anything of note"

p23, left column, 1st paragraph:
"hidden underwater facilitates"
should be:
"hidden underwater facilities"

p23, Notable Units:
"is also the last Whisperer to be last configured"
should be:
"is also the last Whisperer to be configured"

p35, left column, 1st paragraph:
"from start to finish, an logistical nightmare for the Society"
should be:
"from start to finish, a logistical nightmare for the Society"

p35, "Capabilities", 1st paragraph:
"a Heavy Calvary unit"
should be:
"a Heavy Cavalry unit"

p35, "Capabilities", 2nd paragraph:
"combination of calvary movement, effective"
should be:
"combination of cavalry movement, effective"

p35, middle column, 1st paragraph:
"allow the use of 360 rated XL engines"
recommend as
"allow use of the 360-rated XL engines"
(had to read it twice to understand it did not mean there were three hundred and sixty engines available)

p40, Arospace, 1st paragraph:
"had been"
should be:
"has been"
('had been' sounds like the Aerospace component has been lost, 'has been' means that the part existed in the past and still does exist)

p43, Capabilities, 2nd 'paragraph':
second paragraph is not indented

p43, Capabilities, 4th paragraph:
"crews for striping or repairing"
should be:
"crews for stripping or repairing"

p45, Capabilities, 2nd 'paragraph':
second paragraph is not indented

p45, Capabilities, 3rd paragraph:
"and an reinforced repair"
should be:
"and a reinforced repair"


Depending on the secrecy available, I could see the Society working on a mutatype that might be politely called 'Sheeple'.  This mutatype would be where the recipients at Fertility clinics get various upgrades/Traits that make them excellent long-lived Laborers and Technicians, but have cleverly selected negative Traits such as Combat Paralysis.  So excellent non-combatants, but less likely to rebel.  Those who do want to rebel (or are not part of the Fertility Clinic products) are carefully guided towards planetary militia so they can be used up.

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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #154 on: 18 February 2022, 12:50:05 »
Battletech Fanon Wiki has updated it's links to book and it's record sheets.  I have backup for the book just in case.
Thank you.  :thumbsup:

A few spelling and grammar errors I spotted in this file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9y3l4d3cm549ku/Society%20XTRO.pdf?dl=0
[snip]
Ouch, some of those are pretty embarrassing, I will process this in the current work file.
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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #155 on: 18 February 2022, 17:15:56 »
Now off to update the XTRO and then try to use the current momentum to get the FM over the finish line.

Best of luck! Hope IlClan proved inspirational!

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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #156 on: 17 July 2023, 12:16:28 »

The Field Manual is done (see link in my signature).

I have also updated the XTRO, with spelling corrections (thanks idea weenie :smilie_happy_thumbup: ) and other small improvements.
The links in the Opening Post have thus also been updated.
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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #157 on: 17 July 2023, 19:46:26 »
I've been sort of in and out of contact with the BattleTech community since the completion of Operation Lancaster (burnout is real, and I guess I should've expected it), but this project was recently brought to my attention by a mutual friend of mine and Marauder648.

I have to say, though I've only taken a cursory look through this so far, but this is some really cool stuff, mate! Well done! Lovely art (as to be expected when working with Plog), and the passion poured into this is very much evident. Looking forward to digging into this more. I have a few thoughts and questions already, and I'll send those to you in a private message. :)

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Re: Fan XTRO: The Society
« Reply #158 on: 17 July 2023, 21:53:51 »
 :yahoo:

A team-up!  OMG!  Could it happen?!
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