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PoptartsNinja posted:Final stretch... Oh snap!
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vorebane posted:It's Robert Korean, you mook. He's always been referred to as Korean Robert, so I dunno why you'd think Robert was the family name since we're in the DC, as you said. PoptartsNinja posted:Final stretch... YES! Let's see where you take this from here...
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Jan 1, 2018 02:46
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PoptartsNinja posted:Final stretch... Wouldn't this be the second time-skip?
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Jan 1, 2018 02:48
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The first time-skip wasn't a major time-skip, like in the books. In the books, there was enough time for "Everyone's married, everyone has kids old enough for postings".
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Jan 1, 2018 04:40
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B while C is certainly the thread favorite, b means Hanse gets to really wheel to his south and get stuck in with cap com craziness. Love to see what happens either way!
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Jan 1, 2018 05:03
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Oh boy. Voting C because that's by far the most batshit option and I love me some Korean Roberts stories.
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Jan 1, 2018 05:19
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Rereading the Political Vote and Hanse mentioning Hasek reminds me of something: did we ever see what happened with that vote a long time back with Romano deiciding whether or not to go through with Justin Xiang's plan to replace Duke Hasek or not? I know we went heavy into the Clan stuff right after that, but still, it looks like we might be heading back there if Hanse pivots to New Syrtis now that he's reestablished to Draconis Combine like people in the thread are thinking.
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Jan 1, 2018 05:22
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GhostStalker posted:did we ever see what happened with that vote a long time back with Romano deiciding whether or not to go through with Justin Xiang's plan to replace Duke Hasek or not? It was presented to her as fait accompli, the vote was more about how to exploit it
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Jan 1, 2018 06:06
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PoptartsNinja posted:It was presented to her as fait accompli, the vote was more about how to exploit it Fair enough, looks like we'll be revisiting that soon, I would think, depending on how the next Theater Vote goes, I guess.
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Jan 1, 2018 06:08
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GhostStalker posted:He's always been referred to as Korean Robert, so I dunno why you'd think Robert was the family name since we're in the DC, as you said. Pit of Snakes had his readout naming him Robert Korean, but I did go check counting coup and he's Korean Robert there. I was wrong, and WT Fits is not a mook.
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Jan 1, 2018 08:16
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vorebane posted:Pit of Snakes had his readout naming him Robert Korean, but I did go check counting coup and he's Korean Robert there. I was wrong, and WT Fits is not a mook. I've changed it around depending on where the person speaking about him was from. 
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Jan 1, 2018 16:42
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Zaodai posted:He wasn't the one who landed the killing blow or anything. He just happened to be the designated CO. If he doesn't instigate some rather heavy reforms on how their system works immediately, he's going to very likely end up dead or made irrelevant in a trial. Dude the first rear end in a top hat that trials him is going to get an office chair shot through his cockpit.
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Jan 1, 2018 20:41
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Grognan posted:Dude the first rear end in a top hat that trials him is going to get an office chair shot through his cockpit. It does seem that Korean Robert headshots clanners for fun.
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Jan 1, 2018 20:55
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AJ_Impy posted:It does seem that Korean Robert headshots clanners for fun. That's not really going to save him if people in the Hells Horses end up wanting him out of the way. It wouldn't be the first allegedly free for all Trial that turned into them just trying to Robocop the guy everybody hates halfway through.
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Jan 1, 2018 21:43
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Zaodai posted:That's not really going to save him if people in the Hells Horses end up wanting him out of the way. It wouldn't be the first allegedly free for all Trial that turned into them just trying to Robocop the guy everybody hates halfway through. Thing is, he won't just hie off on his own to be leader of the Hell's Horses. I expect most or all of his lancemates-including a certain Spider pilot-will be coming along. Given that the HH are on the less-terrible end of the Clanism scale and actually accept people like freebirths, and given that they're where they will be relocated, I suspect they'll be happy enough initially. Amaris seems most likely to screw that up, depending. The real question is whether Siedman gamed out this kind of scenario with his daughter or not.
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Jan 1, 2018 22:56
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Narsham posted:The real question is whether Siedman gamed out this kind of scenario with his daughter or not. Isn't she just another member of the same bloodhouse?
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Jan 1, 2018 23:05
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Defiance Industries posted:Isn't she just another member of the same bloodhouse? Almost by definition. If she is his daughter, she can't win a bloodname, and it certainly wouldn't be his. Bloodhouses are matrilineal.
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Jan 1, 2018 23:18
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Strobe posted:Almost by definition. If she is his daughter, she can't win a bloodname, and it certainly wouldn't be his. Actually, the Clans can and do splice genes, so Siedman could have daughters that trace matrilineal descent through him. Otherwise the Kell bloodhouse would only have one member forever.
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Jan 1, 2018 23:34
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Defiance Industries posted:Actually, the Clans can and do splice genes, so Siedman could have daughters that trace matrilineal descent through him. Otherwise the Kell bloodhouse would only have one member forever. The Kell Bloodhouse is also by definition an anomaly. Even if the other Siedman was genetically Grier's daughter, he wouldn't care and it would have nothing to do with their relationship.
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Jan 1, 2018 23:37
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Strobe posted:The Kell Bloodhouse is also by definition an anomaly. This is true. However, the process had been in existence for some time before that. I'm just saying that your sex has nothing to do with your genetic relation to your offspring in Clan society.
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Jan 1, 2018 23:39
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Defiance Industries posted:This is true. However, the process had been in existence for some time before that. I'm just saying that your sex has nothing to do with your genetic relation to your offspring in Clan society. Ehhh, in a traditional Clan it absolutely does. Even during the invasion most Clans were still that traditional.
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Jan 2, 2018 00:38
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Mostly for the labor-saving element, I would guess. I never got the read from WoK that the practice was any kind of question of traditionalism as much as just expediency. If you're good they'll take the time.You know Natasha Kerensky was a bunch of kids' dad too.
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Jan 2, 2018 01:29
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Jew it to it! posted:C Clan Steel Case
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Jan 2, 2018 01:33
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PoptartsNinja posted:I've changed it around depending on where the person speaking about him was from. Didn't even notice that, my eyes just passing over the pilot field and automatically saw it as Korean Robert in the status readout of the previous mission. Now that I do know about that, I have to say it's a great touch.
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Jan 2, 2018 03:26
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Defiance Industries posted:Actually, the Clans can and do splice genes, so Siedman could have daughters that trace matrilineal descent through him. Otherwise the Kell bloodhouse would only have one member forever. The Clans can create perfect clones, even. They just don't because they consider it morally repugnant. General Maeve Wolf was a transgender clone of Colonel Jaime Wolf.
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Jan 2, 2018 05:27
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For the sake of the joke I want a clantech office chair mech as fits the CO of this contingent of the horses. Rename it to the Hell's Chairs.
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Jan 2, 2018 06:37
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PoptartsNinja posted:General Maeve Wolf was a transgender clone of Colonel Jaime Wolf. There's an entire sibko of Aiden Pryde clones of both sexes, because Thurston has the creativity of a Xerox machine
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Jan 2, 2018 07:44
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PoptartsNinja posted:I've changed it around depending on where the person speaking about him was from. So because his name was Robert Korean on the damage readout we know his Roughneck is in fact a filthy gaijin?
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Jan 2, 2018 08:35
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Defiance Industries posted:There's an entire sibko of Aiden Pryde clones of both sexes, because Thurston has the creativity of a Xerox machine What did happen with that sibko? The stories tapered off, there was the Jihad in the Inner Sphere, and the Wars of Reaving in Clan Space, and the implication was that this (and other sibkos, with clones of other heroes, it's implied) acting as muscle for the Scientist Class. Um... spoilers?
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Jan 2, 2018 10:24
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Aidan Pryde was loving terrible at navigating Clan politics so clones of him would almost certainly wind up dead in a ditch somewhere.
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Jan 2, 2018 13:28
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PoptartsNinja posted:Aidan Pryde was loving terrible at navigating Clan politics so clones of him would almost certainly wind up dead in a ditch somewhere. Y'know, I didn't think much of him as a fighter either. And his tactics were flashy, the sort that only succeed out of dumb luck or because your opponent is even stupider than you. Figures that the Jade Turkeys would honor someone loud, flashy, and with the brains of the chicken. About the only good things that came out of his series were Horse and Joanna. Though I did kinda also like Ter Roshak and Raville Pryde.
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Aidan is 100% the Clan Ideal: he's pretty, loud, arrogant, incapable at looking of the larger picture, and lucky. The first book in the Jade Phoenix trilogy is well worth a read because it shows just how brutal and insane the Clan indoctrination process is and what it turns a group of sheltered but otherwise normal children into. The rest of that trilogy is complete trash.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Aidan is 100% the Clan Ideal: he's pretty, loud, arrogant, incapable at looking of the larger picture, and lucky. I still like it.  it's exquisite pulp trash and I certainly appreciate how Aidan never had a Sphere-friendly portrayal. He was Clan, and remained Clan (and also protagonist) until his dying breath.He's pretty exclusively a Clan hero unlike drat near every other Clan character by most other authors, who are in general either mustache-twirling evil or had extensive and detailed Inner Sphere affiliation.
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Jan 2, 2018 17:55
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I read the series, and while I didn't love the last two books I did enjoy that Aidan mostly suffers consequences for his actions (spoilers ahead). He gets too cocky during his first trial and ends up washing out because of it, and even getting railroaded back into the warrior caste relegates him to second-class status, winning his bloodname via plot armor only reinforces the stigma surrounding him, and the only reason he receives a front line command is because the unit in question was so disgraced that any other officer would have been gravely insulted by the assignment. Yeah, things work out for him in the end, but he at least suffers for his arrogance. EDIT: also voting C Voyager I fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Jan 2, 2018 18:03
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painedforever posted:What did happen with that sibko? The stories tapered off, there was the Jihad in the Inner Sphere, and the Wars of Reaving in Clan Space, and the implication was that this (and other sibkos, with clones of other heroes, it's implied) acting as muscle for the Scientist Class. Thurston quit writing BattleTech so his ultimate masturbatory fantasy probably just got flushed.
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Jan 2, 2018 19:54
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C) Become Warlord of the Hell’s Horses Reservation (Hell’s Corridor) Yeah, this can't go wrong; I'm sensing a Nova Cat type subplot brewing with this.
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Jan 2, 2018 20:04
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The DracSuns Military was slowly integrating... It took several battles just for it not to turn into a disaster. A successful military integration, not to mention a successful union on a broad national level would've taken so much more (including but not limited to a hazardous timeskip) but it could've happened...! 
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Jan 2, 2018 22:42
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It certainly would have been cool to see them keep integrating and work towards cooperation, but alas, the setting doesn't work if everybody isn't trying to kill each other 24/7. None of the plans to get off the island can work, because then the show would end.
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Jan 2, 2018 22:48
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If the FedCom taught us anything it's that trying to rule two wildly disparate groups is a bad choice.
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I dunno, I'd be ok with intrepid mech reporters keeping the generally peaceful governments of the inner sphere honest.
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