Clan Nova Cat - Zombie Catgirl Extravaganza

[WONC]

And given the speeds at which those cans rotate, that's even MORE dangerous!  The contents tend to be hot just due to sheer friction!

How have we forgotten the Streak LRM Treat Launcher? You add a ton of pouch ammo and the shaker attachment, and all hell breaks loose.

As for getting to see the first Cat 'Mech, I'm down. Throw in the ever-elusive Storm Giant, and I'd probably line up for the first copy of whatever the product was. Unless it was a detailed catalog of all Nova Cat losses and failures over the course of their existence.

[jklantern]

The fact that I'm going through Jeremy Brett's "Sherlock Holmes" and the fact that the Nova Cats have a certain proclivity towards long range and accuracy have given me a REALLY nerdy idea for a name to go with a Nova Cat Mech.

The Moran.

[Istal_Devalis]

...I think you're going to need to expand on that one. I don't get it.

[jklantern]

...I think you're going to need to expand on that one. I don't get it.

Operating under the assumption that you're at least passingly familiar with the Sherlock Holmes mythos; Colonel Sebastian Moran was Prof. James Moriarty's number two.  An ex-soldier, he basically was one of Moriarty's professional hit men, and operated as a sniper using a customized air rifle.

[Istal_Devalis]

OIC. I did better at spotting references when we stuck to a feline based naming system. :D

What would the Rum Tum Tugger be armed with?

[Pa Weasley]

It would be an Omni mounting laser heat sinks and a fog machine. Easily equipped with whatever might be counter-intuitive to the optimal configuration for the pending Trial. All the better for showing off how much awesome(!) you are.

[Istal_Devalis]

...I would TOTALLY use a mech armed with a fog machine. I suppose we could just call that a smoke generator? Pity there are no rule for it. I suppose you could just use Smoke LRM batteries.

Thinking about it, "Memory" is a pretty good theme song for us.

[jklantern]

And of course, the Nova Cats would be the only producers of the Skimbleshanks Omnitrain.   ;D

[Istal_Devalis]

...Wouldn't an Omnitrain just be attaching and removing railcars? :D

Thinking about it, there's a prototype experiment for you. A pseudo Omni-vehicle that uses a tow hitch and trailers to change mission layout. Main vehicle, nothing but engine and armor (which might actually make it a decent scout vehicle when 'empty').

[wolfgar]

Funny you should mention that Istal, is anyone else here familiar with what Marine Corps aviation calls a budda, its one of our tow tractors. We use it to move C130s and V22 Ospreys, I've always felt it would be a marvelous point vehicle because you would need an anti-tank mine to get through the armor plating on it that it uses for extra weight.

[Istal_Devalis]

*blinks at the Coming Soon pages*
...When did THOSE get there? Or have I just been blind?

Operation Turning Point: REVIVAL Trials
Operation Turning Point: Widowmaker Absorption

[Dragon Cat]

*blinks at the Coming Soon pages*
...When did THOSE get there? Or have I just been blind?

Operation Turning Point: REVIVAL Trials
Operation Turning Point: Widowmaker Absorption

I noticed them this morning too good news on both

[CungrVanck]

Question for my Nova Cat friends....

Re read part of Field Manual: 3067 last night when I got to the brief rundown of the 1st Ghost Bear War.  Specifically, the part about Zeta Galaxy and two clusters of Nova Cat troops being driven off world and never being heard from again.

Has there been any mention of them in the Jihad or Dark Age?  Two clusters of clan troops with dropships and jumpships just disappearing....well, something happened to them ;)

[Deadborder]

There's no further mention of them that I know of.

Maybe the Bears decided to hunt them down and exterminate them to the very last man. It's what the Bears do because they're jerks like that.

[Pa Weasley]

Green Ghosts????

No idea, but it's more fun than, "They died in the lonely emptiness of space. Another drifting derelict lost in black water."

[CungrVanck]

There's no further mention of them that I know of.

Maybe the Bears decided to hunt them down and exterminate them to the very last man. It's what the Bears do because they're jerks like that.

I was more positive when I first found the reference.  Perhaps they are still out there and could possibly come back.  Wouldn't be the first or even second time it has happened in the universe.

Could even be pirates who prey on Combine worlds?  That would be an interesting story.

[Istal_Devalis]

My guess is either dead or turned pirate, yeah.

[jklantern]

Hey, then we could consider this a Zombie PIRATE Catgirl Extravaganza!

[WONC]

Question for my Nova Cat friends....

Re read part of Field Manual: 3067 last night when I got to the brief rundown of the 1st Ghost Bear War.  Specifically, the part about Zeta Galaxy and two clusters of Nova Cat troops being driven off world and never being heard from again.

Has there been any mention of them in the Jihad or Dark Age?  Two clusters of clan troops with dropships and jumpships just disappearing....well, something happened to them ;)

I personally hope we either a.) never hear of them again so that the dimly warm core of my soul has something to cling to, or b.) get to see they somehow made it back to the Homeworlds post-Reavings, get reclaimed as Clan, and form the core of a new, vengeful Clan Nova Cat that gets to burn the Combine into oblivion.

Dream big or go home, I say.  :-[

[jklantern]

I personally hope we either a.) never hear of them again so that the dimly warm core of my soul has something to cling to, or b.) get to see they somehow made it back to the Homeworlds post-Reavings, get reclaimed as Clan, and form the core of a new, vengeful Clan Nova Cat that gets to burn the Combine into oblivion.

Dream big or go home, I say.  :-[

Would you settle for them joining up with the Imperio and then helping THEM become vengeful?  Because I think that's a modicum more plausible.

[GhostCat]

I can think of many things more plausible.  Not every loose end gets neatly tied off.

Simplest is a malfunction in the jump drive, nobody really knows what happens because a miss-jump has too many unknown variables.  In a tight formation, it might even influence several jumpships to arrive together at the same wrong destination.  If they are lucky.

More likely and more plausible, they were spirited away by any number of secret factions that never reveal all their hidden assets.  Choose your flavor of the month.

Again, they might have just refused to participate one more tine in the great insanity known as the Inner Sphere.  After choosing a world marked as no longer viable on the Map, they absconded to establish a more cat friendly peacetech sort of place.

Well, it could happen ...

GC

[WONC]

Would you settle for them joining up with the Imperio and then helping THEM become vengeful?  Because I think that's a modicum more plausible.

Hey, I'm a long-time Nova Cat fan. Plausibility has nothing to do with it.

[jklantern]

Hey, I'm a long-time Nova Cat fan. Plausibility has nothing to do with it.

The Cluster saw a vision of a planet made entirely of pizza, and they decided to go for it.  Godspeed, Intrepid Catguys!

[Pa Weasley]

Samurai Pizza Cats if you will?

[Istal_Devalis]

...resisting the urge to paint up Clan battlearmor like the SPC, now.

[jklantern]

...resisting the urge to paint up Clan battlearmor like the SPC, now.

All in favor of Istal painting up Clan BA like the SPC, Meow now.

Meow!

[Pa Weasley]

Meow.

[Istal_Devalis]

Yeah...no.
It HAS been a while since I changed my Avatar though. I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: And there we go

[Pa Weasley]

Waddles approves.

Or he's saying "doorbell".

[wolfgar]

Meow