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Fan Fiction / Re: What's old is neu: Relighting the Fringe with old guns and new wars
« Last post by ANS Kamas P81 on Today at 03:42:52 »One does not accuse Mussolini's military of having competent vehicle designs...
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Fan Fiction / Re: What's old is neu: Relighting the Fringe with old guns and new wars
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:25:15 »That math looks good to me!
And I see the Italians put the gas (or water) where it could be shot... not something I'd want to drive! ;D
And I see the Italians put the gas (or water) where it could be shot... not something I'd want to drive! ;D
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Fan Fiction / Re: A Long Journey
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:19:06 »Site 222 is probably the safest storage for the nukes, honestly... :)
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Off Topic / Re: Naval Pictures X: Underway on Nuclear Power
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:13:32 »USS NAUTILUS is a museum ship; it can be done. You just don't let people into those spaces.
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Combat Vehicles / Re: BA Tube Artillery Truck (Ghosts of Obeedah)
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:11:22 »Please do! :)
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Aerospace Combat / Re: The Power of a Star....(calculations of Warship engine power and heat)
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:09:52 »Yes, the Lorentz transformations from Special Relativity mean the mass of the exhaust goes up the closer to light speed it becomes. And no, it's still not enough to make Strategic Thrust work, whether you're working with a WarShip, DropShip, or Small Craft.
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard
« Last post by Metallgewitter on Today at 03:03:12 »Along these lines, the only way by clan custom to decide which Jade Falcons are the 'legitimate' is basically a trial over it.
Regarding if Alaric and Stephani Chistu will 'deal' with Jiyi's... I feel like Alaric will just declare they answer to Stephanie Chistu because she answers to Alaric. If Jiyi says nope, then it'll arcs towards violence, because Alaric is a guy who in June 3152 declared he owns the universe. Not really any room for compromise with the guy as he exists now.
But... unless Wolves power up like saiyans again, or Stephanie's Falcons do so, the Falcon factions aren't likely to meet each other directly any time soon.
Alaric's message is timewise quite hilarious considering it came right after the Empire's capital had been sacked and a sibko of his children was abducted. I doubt the Dragoons will send a few of those to the Hinterland Falcons but it would be funny nontheless.
Also, he can delcare the Terran Falcons the real Jade Falcons all he wants but the hard relaity is that there are at least two factions that claim to be Jade Falcons that don't answer (for now) to the IlClan. The main question will be if the "IlKhan's bodyguard" will even be allowed to travel back to their old territory to get access to their own genetic legacies. I reckon that will take some time unless we get a Deus ex Machima that says "The two Terran Clans were so smart they brought a full set of their genetic samples to Terra and kept them out of arms reach". After all the Wolves have the same issue but on the flip side have a vastly bigger gene pool left (surviving warriors) to start again
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The Inner Sphere / Re: Mechwarriors who canonincally owned more than one mech at the same time
« Last post by Metallgewitter on Today at 02:54:15 »Danai comes to mind. She owns Yen-Lo-Wang, but now she pilots and owns a Black Knight
And for mercenaries you might argue that sometimes the unit commander is also the owner of several Mechs (or has legal ownership at the very least). Like in Gray Death Rising: Ronan Carlyle and his sister both have two Mechs in that book: Ronan first pilots a Gargoyle before switching to a revamped Marauder (his grandfather's that is) and his sister pilots a Hatchetman but at the end of the book has a Shadow Hawk. So you could argue they still own their first Mech but hand them to another trusted pilot without relinquishing ownership on paper
And for mercenaries you might argue that sometimes the unit commander is also the owner of several Mechs (or has legal ownership at the very least). Like in Gray Death Rising: Ronan Carlyle and his sister both have two Mechs in that book: Ronan first pilots a Gargoyle before switching to a revamped Marauder (his grandfather's that is) and his sister pilots a Hatchetman but at the end of the book has a Shadow Hawk. So you could argue they still own their first Mech but hand them to another trusted pilot without relinquishing ownership on paper
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Would/Could/Should the GB Dominion & Tamar Pact have a non-aggression agreement?
« Last post by Orwell84 on Today at 02:53:02 »For the Dominion, it’s a matter of timing. If Tomans happens after the Dominion has started its Combine offensive or is in the middle of its Civil War, then yeah, the Dominion would appreciate the stable border so more of its focus can be pointed internally or at the Combine. If Tomans happens well before the Dominion knows it will be going on the offensive against the Combine or is embroiled in rebellion, then it’s hard to see the Dominion seeing the Pact as more than a speed bump in its expansion into the former Falcon OZ. If the Dominion wants certain former Falcon worlds bad enough, they simply have the numbers to eventually roll over any Pact resistance.
Star Colonel Lena's report suggesting that the Pact could serve as a buffer state is dated June 3152 (Dominions Divided, p.88), so the civil war's over (for now) and the incursion towards Luthien has begun. The Dominion - or ambitious elements of its govt / military - might still decide to go for Tamar, but with another war on its opposite border and a much more powerful neighbor to the 'northwest' the odds are unlikely. In fact, this brewing Combine-Dominion War might be one of the factors that gives the Hinterlands states extended life.
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Fan Articles / Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Last post by Caedis Animus on Today at 02:40:43 »I might redo and rerelease the Blood Asp MOTW if that is a thing I can do with no objections.
I was a lot younger when I wrote it and I like to think my grasp on the English lexicon has improved since then, so being able to readdress the mech would be neat.
I was a lot younger when I wrote it and I like to think my grasp on the English lexicon has improved since then, so being able to readdress the mech would be neat.
