Wolverines and a second group that otherwise would have died out and at Niops hopefully in time to balance out their xenophobic isolationist scientist ways. Yeah this could get interesting very fast.
But hey, the man reacted with a certain amount of aplomb here. 8)I admit the closing line was rather nice. Especially the remark about frostbite from sunbathing.
"It's Free Real Estate"
I'll leave you with an image of what the sky looks like on Niops VII (the image is actually an artists rendering of what the sky might look like on the exoplanet Kepler-1649c but since the star Kepler-1649 is an M5V Red Dwarf like Niops, and 1649c orbits about the same distance out from it as Niops VII does its own star, it should be a good representation).
So, question, WHY don't the Niopians use the Project Workshops for building some of those Star League auto-factories? Or even some lower tech factories for, I dunno, computers, or anything else?
If you wanted a gauss rifle for a Highlander, a new fusion engine for a cargo dropship, a replacement radio-telescope or a complex part for a Hyperpulse Generator then a Project Workship could make it for you. If however you needed a hundred of any of them you'd better be prepared to wait a good long while because it was, in effect, extremely high-tech artisanal production that was partially hand-built.
Because those factories are gigantic. As noted in the first chapter:
Now, imagine trying to build a Star League tech automated factory that takes raw ingredients in and spits out a finalized product, like a BattleMech. That's going to be a massive series of facilities, having to make the various alloys that go into the armor layers, the components and alloys for the fusion reactor, the myriad of electronics components, computers, myomers, weapons and their components, etc.
To do that, the Project Workshop would have to first make the tools to make the machines to make the components and the tools to assemble the machines that assemble the components and the tools to make the machines that maintain the components of the factory, etc. That's a massive undertaking, and it's no surprise that, in canon, the Niops Association was in no position to be able to do that.
But this story is about them successfully making it to Niops, so who cares what's happening to "Old Nick" (that's the best epithet I've heard for him) in the back of beyond. I'm in the for the IS-adjacent part of the story! 8)
a small nitpick/suggestion.
in the canon, only 6 rigas survived the pentagon wars, each of which are accounted for turning into york classes.
"Would have" or just "have to" build a new shipyard? I'd think it's the latter if they ever want to fix that Potemkin... ???
I thought the industrial base was coming in from Camelot? Or at least some of it, while the Workshops build the rest? ???
Shipyards...require industrial base. I'm guessing that the Wolverines are going to step-stage that so that they can fix yonder Potemkin with quality work, rather than rushing things so it fails somewhere inconvenient.
Loving the story so far. Given this is still early in the Clan era and a lot of SLDF gear is still around, I would love to see/help write up a few TROs on what Royal ASFs would look like once retrofitted with Clantech gear, provided that Hotpoint is okay/amenable to that notion down the road.
The slight Wolverine/Niops Twist to that general rule is that anything that was mounting an ERPPC now has an Enhanced ERPPC.
... I now have evil visions about what that kind of refit would look like for the Royal Stuka.
180XL you say? ???
Think of the infantry man! That would make one SWEET Goblin... :D
They should be able to upgrade their Sabres to SB-27b-EC models... :thumbsup: That would be a great little upgrade
and that engine could be used to improve Von Luckner Heavy Tanks or Quasit Security Mechs or Vindicator VND-1AA (to better armor so it not a failure) or Wyvern Mechs
The 270XL also gives you the PHX-1b and PhX-1c Royal Phoenix Hawks, along with the new PPCs and, IIRC, ER lasers.
Incidentally, any 270SFE engines stripped out of existing machines for the XL upgrade find a home in new-build Highlanders. Meanwhile 150SFE engines from Spads go into new Burkes (using three Improved PPC's means you can add three tons of armour so it's much tougher).
Even better: the low weight of Clan LRM systems gives you even more armor.
I was thinking in terms of swapping out the LRM10 for an Improved LRM20 (same mass and crits) but perhaps splitting the difference at an Improved LRM15 (and an extra 1.5 tons of armour) might be an idea.I suggest using at least 1 of the freed up tons for additional LRM ammo. Larger launcher means you go through the ammo bins that much more quickly.
Swapping out the original Burke armament for three Improved PPCs and an Improved LRM15 increases armour from 5.5 tons to 10.5 tons and gives a firepower increase (until the LRM's run out).
Also useful for Royal Wyverns. Or if they want lighter something in the 30 ton class. My recommendation is for a Falcon.
The next XL engine available after that will be the Star League 180XL (to replace the 150 SFE in Spads and the 180SFE in the Gotha). It's actually intended for the Niops version of the Blackjack 'mech too.
So by this point in the AU, the Wolverines already have Clan LRMs and DHS? Or are they roughly still equivalent to SLDF Royal tech?
I wanna know Farnsworth's plan for that naval laser.would you believe a Long Range Laser Comm system? 8)
I wanna know Farnsworth's plan for that naval laser.
And I have to say, I hate the emoji change...
Optical Levitation experiment. He wants to build the galaxies most powerful ever set of Optical Tweezers so he can make big (well relatively big) things float.So not any of the other options?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers)
(it's not quite as crazy as it sounds).
;)
Just a quick FYI your links, you need to loose the ' https//www.sarna.net/wiki/Minnesota_Tribe ' on your links so they work.
and until I looked it up I thought the story about the Avatar class Heavy Cruiser Pioneer that ended up in the Paran system, was going to be just spacer rumor.
Also glad to see they reformed Intelligence Service from the former retired professionals
and until I looked it up I thought the story about the Avatar class Heavy Cruiser Pioneer that ended up in the Paran system, was going to be just spacer rumor.Makes me wonder if they didn't think it was just a spacers rumor until it was too late, or could be why it can't be found now.It's a little surprising that Comstar didn't descend on them like a ton of bricks!
Also glad to see they reformed Intelligence Service from the former retired professionalsMake sense to me, and where to find them. coolQuoteAfter their experiences with the proto-Watch I couldn't imagine the Wolverines not looking into that.
30,000 Locusts.... that would be mind-blowingly amazing.
LCT-1M.
Who needs armor when you have 60,000 LRM5s? ;D
The people being targeted by 60 thousand LRMs certainly do.
A Saladin with an Arrow IV instead of the AC/20 is only about 1.1 million... ;)
Good thing they didn't see the Minnesota Division patches. "We don't need no stinking badgers!" would have been a little too on the nose, eve if they belong a state over.
UHF - We don't need no stinking badgers! (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54)
Captain Mitchell and the crew of the Badger (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Badger_(Individual_Vincent-class_WarShip)) are deeply offended.
So notoriously weak against fighter threats that the Potemkin assault dropship was developed specifically to defend the Congress class against them, why the James Sever seemed to have been running without any escort was a mystery. What was known upon her rediscovery in 2826 however was that she had been so thoroughly pummelled and blasted that she was completely beyond repair.
...
For this operation Rickenbacker/James Sever still lacked a Potemkin, but the Titan carrier dropship she was hauling more than made up for it.
Small point - you reported Potemkin assault dropships - must be Pentagon ones, right?
You get the name right in your author notes - this should be the "Pentagon"-class dropship, not the "Potemkin". Bit of a size difference.
Has the Lothian League actually expanded to Paulinus yet? I thought that happened after the disastrous 2930's "merc" raid...
Good update, and the 141st are properly equipped to be a real nemesis, rather than just a walk in the park, which makes for a better story.
Nobody expects the SLDF! Especially not the guy who expected the inquisition instead.:smilie_happy_clapping:
:smilie_happy_clapping:
Blood Rains, enjoy the rain of Artillery
As well as messing with Arrow IV homing missiles and Artemis IV (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Artemis_IV_FCS) fire-control systems Guardian ECM (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Guardian_ECM_Suite) also stops NARC (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Narc_Missile_Beacon) beacons working (and AMS (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Anti-missile_system) can shoot down incoming NARC beacons anyway) otherwise the Imprived LRM launchers of the SLDF here would have utterly pulverised the Blood Rain (Improved LRM systems only way half as much so you can carry far more of them).
As a person who brought 1700 points of artillery in a 3000 point game of Epic 40k I approve of this strategy! :DEvil I love it :drinking01:
Marcus smirked. "Nice to hear that we've been living rent-free in your heads all these years."
"Rent free? Oh no. You've just built up arrears and it was nigh time to collect" Gloria told her, opening the door and walking out, closing the door again behind her as she acknowledged the guards outside in the corridor with a nod.
"Not within the Inner Sphere but it might get you a second interview in the Tortuga Dominions" Hallis quipped. "I'm sorry to tell you this Gloria but we've still not heard back from the High Associator as to his decision on how to proceed with Marcus. Getting the okay to work over Critchly was easy enough, he's infamous to the point of being practically a household name, but Olson isn't convinced that her own history necessarily warrants a no-holes-barred approach."
Freudian slip, or an intentional turn of the phrase?
And ALL the points to Alice here... she's playing him like a fiddle, and he can't even bring himself to complain! ;D
"It's like six people and a bunch of maps" another responded. "They're basically an adjunct of geology, they just refuse to merge with them."
Rumours that she had once beaned a student with an accurately thrown whiteboard eraser,
Rumours that she had once beaned a student with an accurately thrown whiteboard eraser, the student concerned having fallen asleep during one of her lectures, were widely believed though officially denied.
It's very possible to make a Devastator with Clan weapons saving so much tonnage that it's not necessary to use an XL engine - which lets it nail the long range firepower and the durability options.
Just tried in Megamek Lab. 100% doable - 15 tons of Clan Ferro, two cERPPCs, two cGRs with four tons of ammo, three cERMLs and 17 DHS gets you there on the dot. Would be a very useful and powerful Second Line mech that could easily outshoot most assault omnis too.'
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Thank you for the nightmare fuel!
Plinker
Mass: 100 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: Tracked
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Clan Invasion
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E-A
Production Year: 3070
Cost: 3 936 667 C-Bills
Battle Value: 852
Power Plant: 200 I.C.E.
Cruise Speed: 21,6 km/h
Flanking Speed: 32,4 km/h
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
8 LB 2-X ACs
1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 50 points 10,00
Engine: I.C.E. Engine 200 17,00
Cruise MP: 2
Flank MP: 3
Heat Sinks: Single Heat Sink 0 0,00
Control Equipment: 5,00
Lift Equipment: 0,00
Turret: 5,00
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 188 10,50
Armor
Factor
Front 48
Left/Right 38/38
Turret 32
Rear 32
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Equipment Location Heat Spaces Mass
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8 LB 2-X ACs T 8 8 48,00
CASE BD - 1 0,50
@LB 2-X (Slug) (45) BD - 0 1,00
@LB 2-X (Cluster) (135) BD - 0 3,00
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 6 Points: 9
2t 1 1 1 0 4 0 Structure: 5
Special Abilities: CASE, EE, TUR(1/1/1), FLK 1/1/1
No need for rolling maps... Look at this BV and consider just how many TACs you can take before you get mission killed!
*snip*
As a random test I ran four of these against a Dire Wolf once on 2x2 standard maps. The DW got to fire once before the pilot died from ammo TACs and head hits. :evil:
"They all seemed very nice, they just seemed to have a blind-spot when it came to human experimentation" Captain Blüd observed with a shrug.
I think I agree with the TH that geneticists are more dangerous than nuclear physicists. One can destroy planets while the other can destroy life.
Holy crap, Niops and Frobisher together. Is the galaxy ready for that much “Science!”?
Also at least she is not a Colonel Blood, then it is ''lock ya crown jewels'' time.No, just the German word for it.
astrologers were held somewhat lower in public esteem there than people that claimed to be able to divine the future by studying goat entrails.
His scores are much higher than his promotion prospects.
Ahem... [Astronomy Minor]Terra is Sol III.[/Astronomy Minor]
Putting the Hegemony back together like a giant kit, was how one commentator had described it.
I LOVE this bit:
And it's only odd to me that Niops didn't try building more workshops earlier... ;)
Suggesting academic departments merge? That's a material for a lifetime vendetta right there.Don't worry.. that will take years to happen, and there will be blood to pay..
Weaksauce, our teachers were not afraid to throw chalk or a key bundle, to wake up a sleeper or shut up a chit chatter.I have a friend who had a nun who used an eraser, but was good enough to bounce it off way to hit you on the rebound.
Part XXVI will be entirely lacking in teenage crapthe teenage crap, is what keeping this from just being another stock AU. and the kids give us an interesting insight into the world.
Love it! The only thing wrong with that flag is the words... it doesn't need them! :)
Interesting that the saKhans aren't in attendance. Normally, at least in the 31st century, both Khans of a Clan attend the Grant Council. It's possible this was different initially but I don't know anything to that effect.
Also Jerome Winson (or his replacement if he's died) is rather conspicuously not mentioned. He was both Nicholas' mentor and his heir as ilKhan so it's odd that he's quiet.
Jerome Winson nodded. "Even the up-gunned and up-armoured versions of the Marauder and Battlemaster that turned them into assault mechs puts the machines we rode during Operation Klondike not so long past firmly in the shade" he agreed. "
Also Jerome Winson is mentionedMy bad for missing that.
so alot of the clan warships are going to be more ready for recalling. maybe this time the Dragoons will get some bugeyes for scouting. i do have to wonder what would happen if the wolverines captured a bugeye that Nicky sent to spy on the IS>
Their reduced numbers preclude classic SLDF tactics, though...
Not a nitpick but my son just read Betrayal of Ideals and we've been discussing the period- where was the source of:
"In canon after the destruction of Dehra Dun the khan of Clan Mongoose, Mitchell Loris, tried to take advantage of the weakness of Clan Snow Raven but was threatened with tapes the Snow Ravens had of Sarah McEvedy talking to Mitchell about the ilKhan (McEvedy was good friends with the saKhan of the Ravens). "
Thanks!!!
He's coming in fresh and I haven't read that period in years.
However Nicholas did say they will need a lot more troops for the war on Inner Sphere, so their numbers will be higher, but their obsession with duelling will influence their planning, even if they brush up their SLDF manuals before the invasion.
"The Bane is intended as part of a combined-arms formation, it is not a toy for one-on-one trials against a single foe" Fletcher replied, his tone similar to what you might use to lecture an ignorant child. "If the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere come for us, or the Wolverines return, neither are going to play by our rules" he said. "Why do you think the ilKhan prefers us to call them the Chalcas Clan?" he asked rhetorically.
"Your words verge on praise for the ways of the Chalcas, Khan Fletcher" Ellie Kinnison told him, glaring with her one good eye. "A dangerous position to take" she warned coldly.
"Failure to recognise that an enemy is formidable is more dangerous" Fletcher retorted. "I defeated many a battlemech unit of the Rim Worlds Republic because they thought little of infantry and tanks and paid the price for their hubris" he stated from experience.
"The Khan of the Hell's Horses makes a valid point" Nicholas Kerensky interjected. "We learn more from our mistakes than our successes, and we underestimate our foes at our peril" he said.
Other than Betrayal of Ideals the relevant source is Field Manual: Warden Clans which contains a couple of interesting passages from Stephen McKenna's personal journal.
The first passage speaks of no longer trusting the other clans in the wake of Dehra Dun, and his Snow Ravens facing absorption by Clan Mongoose, and the second how he got Loris Mitchell to back off. I'll quote the second because I find the phrasing hilarious (McKenna seems to have a very wry, sardonic sense of humour).
"Loris proved most understanding when I presented our case to him this afternoon. He was also most appreciative that rumors of tapes describing his association with the Khan of the Not-Named proved false. As he so vehemently told me. any claim that he was in league with that treacherous woman is preposterous. He is lucky that we intercepted the tapes and prevented them being presented to the Grand Council."
:cheesy:
I can see one major set of goals that NIOPs and the SLDF will have. That is to have a Navy, Army, and enough replacement programs to fight the whole Clan forces.
I think you mean Lyran Commonwealth, not Lyran Alliance... unless there's been one hell of a timeskip!
I'm not sure Paulinus was in the Lothian League that early, but I'm liking the rest of the story! :)
I'm not sure that you will not see the Clan we know and love/hate come to be. Right now you have commanders who know "Real War" and what it will take to win. But as they go and are replace with new Khans will they keep training up
Sentencing the rest of those sibkos based on the behavior of four with similar genetics is definitely not cool. Establishing that particular punishment for any that break laws in the same way would fly, but not pre-emptively...
i would be nice to see some intel types talking about pattern analysis and work on a tech decline graph. soon merchant class will be worth the effort to make and sell.
There's an extra ' in the link for the Cargo King.
When did the Mariks get a Samarkand?
At some point the Draconis Combine sold them the Chronos (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Chronos_(Individual_Samarkand_II-class_WarShip)). Maybe it was because neither of them liked the Lyrans. :wink:
A motto for NHCOMNET "We deliver the mail, we don't read it"
A motto for NHCOMNET "We deliver the mail, we don't read it"
One of my people decided to try and get a tan when we first got here after getting really pale from being couped up in the ship. She was in the medbay on the Intruder recovering from sunburn
Woah, didn't expect Charles Marik get bumped off this soon. He was suppose to talk to his sister in Comstar as the Captain-General to try get the League out interdiction. Butterflies keep flapping their wings around here.That would have been an interesting conversation since she died on the Oriente HPG station (which was a space station) when Charles had it blown apart.
Captain Blüd is right about what [/I]Charles Marik (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Charles_Marik_(29th_c.)) not dying of natural causes...Sounds like natural causes to me... I mean, for a Successor Lord. Very few of them died of old age.
*snip*Well played, good sir! :D
"Welcome back to the Eleventh Army" Blüd told him.
*snip*
Part XXXV- Section 1 of 2
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Meanwhile if they were cut off from the generals giving orders the armies of the Lyran Commonwealth would probably enjoy their greatest military successes of the war.
Tyson's Troublemakers, originally the SLDF 23rd Heavy Assault Regiment, part of XXVII (27th) Corps, 11th Army, Lyran Commonwealth Military Region.
In the canon timeline, they passed into history during the fires of the 1st Succession War on the FedSuns/Combine border.
Now, they get a chance to survive and go home.
I think those guys have already earned reinstatement, and "Welcome back to the Eleventh Army" pretty much confirmed it... :)
DropShips come with 3 tons equivalent of Communications Equipment as part of their controls for no additional tonnage, which is good for +1 Initiative. One more ton gets you satellite links, and four more tons would get it up to +2 Initiative. Totally worth it in my book.How does that work with dropships though? Do you need to add the additional communication gear?
Communications equipment that a unit automatically comes with stacks with a set of additional equipment to produce a total communications equipment tonnage rating. For example, a Small Craft (which receives 3 tons free) that adds a set of 3 tons of communications equipment has a total communications equipment rating of 6 tons.
I missed it before... That should be a Mammoth parked at the spaceport. Behemoths can only go planetside once.
Is this the wrong way round?:
"Reykjanes was a spectacular backdrop, what with the volcanoes"
Shouldn't it be Niops V with the volcanoes?
So basically, the cERPPC is just the Clan ER PPC we are familiar with, while the ieERPPC has the same weight and crit profile as a regular Inner Sphere ER PPC (seven tons, three crits) but has the 15 damage/15 heat profile of the Clan version?
Don't Black Warriors also have a beef with Eridiani Light Horse?
Per Sarna:
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Black_Warriors
The Eridani Light Horse moved to Circinus in 2853 to launch raids against the Lyran Commonwealth. Both groups, as old Star League units, worked together, launching raids against their common foe. However, when the Light Horse uncovered that the Warriors were really pirates, at the end of the war they parted ways. The Warriors saw this as a betrayal, and since then keep a deep hate toward the ELH. The Light Horse landed at the behest of Charles Marik who saw an opportunity to both destroy the Warriors and attack the Commonwealth. The Black Warriors were eventually destroyed by the Light Horse. The ELH then moved on to attack the Lyran Commonwealth, leaving the world to be garrisoned by the Free Worlds League Military. Actions taken by these garrison troops fanned the flames of hatred for the League. Though destroyed in 2864, the Black Warriors would rebuild.
So this timeline has the Black Warriors running into Niops and the SLDF before the ELH had a chance to meet them.
It also sets the stage for the eventual meeting between the Light Horse and Niops, though, which, I'll be honest, I've been waiting for since the beginning of this story.Yay, that's something I'm interested in seeing.
I remember back in the day when I was still a member, even more mainstream universes had no chance against ASOIF fics because AH was as obsessed with it as SB was with Worm.
MacArthur would have much preferred to fight with some good artillery support, the kind that the SLDF used so effectively before against the Blood Rain on Algenib, but they don't have any Vali or Thor batteries so they're fighting with what they do have.I daresay MacArthur is going to be asking for a Fortress the next time he has to do one of these missions... ;D
I daresay MacArthur is going to be asking for a Fortress the next time he has to do one of these missions... ;D
But only the Fortress has installed artillery... ;)
I'm thinking a Colossus, with a Titan as a aerospace backup along with a pair of Achilles to act as bodyguards...Someone is thinking along the right lines……
"Major Christine Brzęczyszczykiewicz" she replied.
Do you they really NOT know whom the Niops Association has become? Its like they forgot.
Pineapple on pizza is delicious, IF properly done. None of that canned surat bulljive, fresh pineapple, laced with some balsamic, torched and brulee'd along with shaved jamon iberico and a touch of salsa verde atop a buttery thin crust and bubbling pecorino romano.well I like Pepperoni and Pineapple.
I wouldn't expect the Engineer to do ANY damage to the SLDF... you don't bend your own crowbar... ;D
Ah, wasn't sure which "he" Wrangler was referring to...Awww......I was talking about the guy in charge of the Niops , the new High Associator James Murray. Fruit cake who overreacts to planets status. Yelling at his highest commander over something like that is very....bad. Means he either he could be unstable or might be influenced by others, including ComStar.
Funny and worrisome, the guy....is not all there.Obviously he won't be going to Terra until they correct the status of Pluto 😋
Wasn't there suppose to be some diplomatic mission to Terra or was just talk? Murray doesn't seem to be stable isotope to me.
Dwarf planets are still planets. I will ride or die on that hill.
Justice for Pluto!Seconded, all for this say yup!
Sure, they're planets, it's in the dang name. The problem is that absolutely no astronomer would ever count them when they number the major planets, because otherwise the Sol system would have anywhere between 12 and 15+ planets with Ceres, Eris, and a couple other large asteroid belt and Kuiper belt objects. From an astronomer's viewpoint, that way lies madness. If nothing else, the usual mnemonic to name the planets would probably have to be updated every few years as another dwarf planet the same size or larger than Pluto was discovered hiding out among the comets. School children and their teachers would justifiably riot. (Cats and dogs, living together; Mass hysteria!)
On a somewhat related matter, learning the fate of the 295th Division came as something of a pleasant surprise
"But you made the Cardinal French... How could you miss the opportunity to make him SPANISH! ;D"
For what it's worth, the Vatican Observatory is a real thing, and would be quite interested in the original mission of the Niops Colony.
I'm sure there's at LEAST one actual Astronomer on this mission... ;D
The Vatican is savvy enough diplomatically to use this as a opportunity for outreach (they're considerably less 'bull in a china shop' than Niops, they've been playing the game a lot longer.).
"While I doubt the prisoner is in a fit state to make a run for it, if he does may I suggest you instruct your men that while the word of Our Lord as passed down to us in the Bible frowns upon killing, and that they should therefore refrain from shooting him in the back if possible, the book is somewhat fuzzier when it comes to the subject of kneecaps"
I just WHEEZED. Oh dear god what a line.
What a line indeed! :D
Seriously... who knew the Inquisition even HAD a sense of humor!? ;D
Well, face it, you can't Torquemada anything!
The "fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps" line was pretty blatantlystolen, borrowed by me from Shepherd Book in Firefly (still my favourite TV show ever).
As for the Prefect of theInquisitionCongregation of the Doctrine of the Faith having a sense of humour, well we've caught him on a good day in an upbeat mood.
Interestingly enough Joseph Ratzinger (the later Pope Benedict) headed the Inquisition for over twenty years and was supposed to have a much better sense of humour in private than people expected...
... though expectations might have been low because he wasn't just head of the Inquisition for two decades, he was also German. :wink:
Well, face it, you can't Torquemada anything!
On arrival the mercenaries had been granted their own district on what was then the edge of town, one large enough for hangers to hold their mechs plus a barracks and a few other prefabricated buildings around a parade ground, but if the town kept expanding in size and population at the current rate the Troublemakers would soon find themselves completely surrounded on all sides by urban sprawl.
Common issue, especially in Europe. And then people complain because there is a military base right in the city, well base was there well before you decided to buy a plot next to it.
Nice to see other former SLDF units rallying to the Red Cameron Star! :)
I'm sure the Primus enjoyed the news to everyone else that he had 8 Divisions...
I don't think that was ever spelled out to the Houses in the original timeline.
I'm sure the Primus enjoyed the news to everyone else that he had 8 Divisions..."Had" or "has"? That's the question that will bother most of the Houses... ;)
I don't think that was ever spelled out to the Houses in the original timeline.
This meeting would be a good time to come up with a standard "mercs who are former SLDF want to join us" policy. Raising their profile on Terra and declaring you never stopped being the SLDF will be having groups come out of the woodwork. Not just the big guys but the small ones too.
Land Grants for everybody! Niops creates a merc contract approval board where you can take external contracts but only if Niops Central Command says it's OK. Oh, and that lostec you need to maintain your mechs is available at reasonable prices. Caught selling it on the black market to others has bad penalties.
Are there any other known scientific colonies like Niops or Frobisher besides the Folly? Might make sense to contact them and see if they want in or at least troll their database.
- Of course, even further away, is the California Nebula...