Okay, I might as well get started. I’m taking
Cannonshop up on
this offer, to whit: “Anyone who still has extant copies of my older stuff, is perfectly welcome to repost it.”
Anyone who gets twitchy when faced with errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting needs to know that these are the texts as-posted by
Cannonshop himself. I know how twitchy
I get about people possibly modifying my stories, so other than matching the original italics/bold formatting, and resurrecting the odd ‘missing’ line that got obscured by Censortron hiccups, these stories are re-posted exactly as
Cannonshop first put them on-line. :-\ I’ll even be including relevant writer’s notes and out-of-story remarks, including a few choice comments from readers of the time. ;)
Main Ngo Timeline (Ngo-verse 3.0(?)) 2729 —
Kowloon Rising (re-post: complete)
2768 —
A Pound of Flesh — from the Debtor’s Chest (re-post: complete)
2776 —
When the Man Comes Around co-written by blacktigeractual (re-post: complete)
3052 —
Unsuitable (re-post: complete)
3059 —
Blood of my Motherland (re-post: complete)
3061 —
Moving Towards Madness (re-post: complete)
3063 —
Enter the Falcon co-written by Blackhorse 6 (re-post: complete)
3075 —
For the Liberty of Others (re-post: complete)
3076 —
Awards and Rewards co-written by Deathrider6 (re-post: complete)
3077 —
Standards and Decisions (re-post: complete)
3079 —
Never Coming Home (re-post: complete)
3081 —
Sweetness and Light (re-post: pending)
3081 — For the Good of the Nation (re-post: pending)
3081 — Genesis — (re-post: pending)
3082 — For Home and People (re-post: pending)
3082 — Finding Your Feet (re-post: pending)
3083 — Rule of Law (re-post: pending)
3083 — The Rule of Man (re-post: pending)
[unknown timeframe] — In Hell (re-post: pending)
3084 — My Homeland, My People (re-post: pending)
3085 — Going Home (re-post: pending)
3086 — Show Me How It Hurts (re-post: pending)
3087 — My Native Land (re-post: pending)
3087 — Sing Songs of Unity (re-post: pending)
3088 — ‘3089’ (re-post: pending)
3089 — A Forest (re-post: pending)
3090 — A Cold War (re-post: pending)
3091 — Overviews (re-post: pending)
3092 — And Angels Weep (re-post: pending)
3094 — Stoke the Flame of the Empire (re-post: pending)
3097 — In Blue (re-post: pending)
3099 — Dark Places (re-post: pending)
3099 — Burial Plots (re-post: pending)
Primer on Kowloon Primer on Cholmann’s Syndrome AI side-line Technically speaking, the ‘Tabby’ stories take place in the normal Ngo-verse, but there’s next to no interaction between
Tabiranth and the ’Loonies.
[No timestamp] —
Identify (re-post: complete)
3068 —
Sybil originally a stand-alone fic written by Giovanni Blasini (re-post by
Giovanni Blasini: in progress)
3069 —
Knock, Nock fan-novel co-written by Cannonshop, Giovanni Blasini, and Deathrider6 (re-post: complete)
3083 —
Ascension co-written by Giovanni Blasini, Liam’s Ghost, and Cannonshop (re-post:
in progress)
3085 —
Cast Down from Grace (re-post: complete)
Alternate Timelines FGC’62 AU Index of FGC’62 Timeline (Index and all related fics posted by
Cannonshop himself)
As the title says, this index, and the fics it links to here, are related to the Fan Grand Councils 3062 game which started here several years ago, then migrated to the Intelser.org forums. As such, a lot of the background is incredibly divergent from canon (that game got
wild! :o); you’d need to do a
lot of catch-up on those forums to get all of the context, and at the moment those forums are closed to non-members following a spam infestation. :'( That said, the fics the FGC set-up let
Cannonshop write were classic Ngo/’Loonie stuff, so they’d be worth your time if you can ever get access.
3066 —
Traveling with Cousin Giao 3067 —
A Sickness 3067 —
Redneck 3067 —
Dinner with Elizabeth 3068 —
Chickens Come Home to Roost 3069 —
A Singular Event 3069 —
Slouching to Independence BattleTech: Shattered Dawn AU BattleTech: Shattered Dawn is an AU crafted by
Takiro and a whole bunch of other contributors, starting from the premise that a Cameron did survive the Amaris Coup. The SLDF’s 90th Heavy Assault Regiment, the “Black Tigers”, were created by
blacktigeractual for a series of fan-novels set in BTSD which I highly recommend in their own right. You can read them on-line at
OurBattleTech.com. Technically-speaking,
When the Man Comes Around can fit into either the ‘main’ Ngo timeline or the BTSD continuity, but
Smell of the Ashes has elements that make it more of a ‘Kowloon/Ngo in the BTSD ’verse’ story.
2776 —
When the Man Comes Around co-written by blacktigeractual (re-post: complete)
2779 —
The Smell of the Ashes co-written by blacktigeractual (re-post: complete)
BTSD crossover AU Think the Ngos and ’Loonies were bad enough on their own? Add a time-displaced SLDF unit to the mix — worse yet, the 90th Heavy Assault Regiment, the “Black Tigers” of ‘BattleTech: Shattered Dawn’ fame — and watch the fireworks get so much
nastier! Sadly, this one remains a stand-alone story at this juncture, but I doubt anyone would complain if it expanded into a complete Ngo-’verse/timeline in its own right. ;)
(For the record, the Black Tigers misjumped out of their timeline into the ‘canon’/Ngo timeline; the Terran Republic and BTSD are
not part of the timeline they arrive in.)
3051 —
Ghosts of the Dead fan-novel co-written by blacktigeractual, Cannonshop, and MechRat (re-post: complete)
Hunted Tribes AU Hunted Tribes is a story by
Hotpoint which crosses BattleTech with the 2003 reimagining of
BattleStar Galactica and details what happens when the Tag-Tag Fleet finds a ‘New Caprica’ that is already occupied by humans. The resulting interactions between the Colonials, their new hosts, and the Cylons are as complex as they are...
interesting, often in the Chinese sense.
Note that the first version of
...But Somehow a Most Melancholy listed below, the ‘original’ version, ran into some serious issues.
Hotpoint and
Cannonshop began a re-write, and groundwork elements of
that version are incorporated into the main narrative of
Hunted Tribes, but the rewrite remains unfinished and the ‘first version’ should not be considered part of
Hunted Tribes ‘canon’.
3045 —
Hunted Tribes by Hotpoint alone 3046 — ...But Somehow a Most Melancholy (original)
co-written by Hotpoint and Cannonshop 3046 — ...But Somehow a Most Melancholy (re-write)
co-written by Hotpoint and Cannonshop Ngo-verse version 2.0(?) The Ngo-verse went through several iterations over the years, as
Cannonshop honed his writing skills and learned better control of his urge to ‘power-game’ through the Ngos and Kowloonese. This iteration was the second version I ever saw, back before these were even adopted by (then) FanPro as the official forums, and while I can’t deny
Cannonshop’s passion for the material or his ability to write an exciting narrative, the power-level of his protagonists is far higher than seen in later takes, with the semi-natural consequence that they ended up all but running the entire Lyran Commonwealth at points.
(Sadly, the original version I read appears to have been lost to the data-tides of the Internet. It showcased an even more powerful(!) set of Ngos/’Loonies, but included some really interesting ideas. For instance, in that version, the Ice Hellions were also part of the Jade Falcon invasion of Kowloon... rather to their regret. That was the version where CIH MechWarriors on Kowloon were getting ambushed by
Marauders armed with MetalStorm AC/10’s in combat, or falling afoul of twelve-gauge vasectomies from ’Loonie boobytraps when they dis-/re-mounted....)
3063 —
...and Every Mother's Son Will Suffer (reposted by wolfcannon)
Ngo-verse version 4.0(?) (With many thanks to
glitterboy2098 for initially compiling these links.)
In this iteration of the Ngo-verse, Mizz Liz is something less of a force-of-nature; she’s just as smart and driven and
passionate as ever, but she enters the nobility (and ‘repossesses’ Kowloon) in 3057 as a sixteen-year-old, some five years earlier than in previous treatments, which leaves her far less politically adept. Instead of steamrolling everyone in her way, she actually faces pushback from other power-players in the Lyran Commonwealth, who have vastly more experience and resources in managing would-be disruptors. And then the Arluna Flu shows up and
really upsets the various applecarts....
3057 —
How to you apologize to THEM?: a Elizabeth Ngo featurette Apparently takes place right after Mizz Liz ‘repossesses’ Kowloon, as seen in A Question of Labour
3058 —
Not necessarily to everyone's taste 3058 —
Her Wings 3063 —
Her Boots 3059/3065 —
The Watery Silence The Arluna Flu strikes again! 3067 —
The Politics of Compromise 3067 —
Spreading Darkness 3075 —
Cool Wind 3076 —
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