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PoptartsNinja posted:Presently, my schedule is: wake up at 5:45, go to work, stay until 5:45, go home and try to sleep. Your fault for voluntarily living in SoDak when Minneapolis is so close by.
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Nevets posted:'hosed' War College is no West Point Don't the ComGuards use Sandhurst as a training academy and grounds in canon? Wonder what happened to all the other prominent military academies on Terra in the interim, like the aforementioned West Point... Blown up by Amaris? Wouldn't put it past him...
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Aug 9, 2011 17:58
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GhostStalker posted:Don't the ComGuards use Sandhurst as a training academy and grounds in canon? Wonder what happened to all the other prominent military academies on Terra in the interim, like the aforementioned West Point... Blown up by Amaris? Wouldn't put it past him... More than likely an afterthought for this game's fiction, but I guess we can say that Amaris burned West Point to the ground rather than have the SLDF have anything intact after victory.
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Aug 9, 2011 19:22
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GhostStalker posted:Don't the ComGuards use Sandhurst as a training academy and grounds in canon? Wonder what happened to all the other prominent military academies on Terra in the interim, like the aforementioned West Point... Blown up by Amaris? Wouldn't put it past him... If Amaris didn't hit it it very well could have been hit in the crossfire between him and the SLDF. The SLDF fights no-holds-barred, after all. When fighting broke out in the Clan Homeworlds they totally ruined their poo poo in the span of like 10 years, to the same level it took the Great Houses 200 to do.
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Aug 9, 2011 20:36
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Zeroisanumber posted:Your fault for voluntarily living in SoDak when Minneapolis is so close by. An 8 hour drive isn't exactly close.
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Aug 9, 2011 20:50
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Speaking of Apple: coincidentally, today Apple became the world's most valuable company (on paper), surpassing Exxon (for a few hours). This is of course based on stock valuation which is essentially bullshit, but there you go. No longer the plucky underdog, our Apple; it was briefly the biggest public corporation in the world (unless you rate it on revenues, profits, numbers of employees, numbers of products sold, or any other reasonable metric). Apple iBattlemechs suddenly don't sound so implausible, eh?
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Aug 9, 2011 21:30
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BattleMechs are pretty much the anti-Apple product. You can keep a mech running for hundreds of years with parts from other machines and tape.
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Aug 9, 2011 21:40
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Defiance Industries posted:BattleMechs are pretty much the anti-Apple product. You can keep a mech running for hundreds of years with parts from other machines and tape. Omnimechs especially, considering their modularity.
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Aug 9, 2011 21:42
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Mr. Despair posted:An 8 hour drive isn't exactly close. Yes but the food is actually palatable here, and there is a nightlife to speak of that doesn't involve 3am motorcycle rallies by the Banditos.
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Aug 9, 2011 21:44
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Nevets posted:'hosed' War College is no West Point 'Focht' War College. Named after a guy that won't exist(under that name) in Poptarts timeline. It's also the (archaic) german word for "fenced" and "fought". Magni fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 9, 2011 |
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Aug 9, 2011 22:59
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GhostStalker posted:Don't the ComGuards use Sandhurst as a training academy and grounds in canon? Wonder what happened to all the other prominent military academies on Terra in the interim, like the aforementioned West Point... Blown up by Amaris? Wouldn't put it past him...
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Arquinsiel posted:Battletech in general has a very anti-American future in mind. Apparently Space Everyone Else didn't take too kindly to Space America and deployed Space Nukes. The Battletech creators were huge Otakus (which is why someone will speak Japanese in every book; even the ones where everyone is already speaking Spanish).  ... but really, the Battletech universe is Midieval Europe (and Asia) during World War II in the future of 1985 in space. With giant robots. Zeroisanumber posted:Your fault for voluntarily living in SoDak when Minneapolis is so close by. I hate being around millions of people and spending more than five minutes driving to work. :p
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Defiance Industries posted:If Amaris didn't hit it it very well could have been hit in the crossfire between him and the SLDF. The SLDF fights no-holds-barred, after all. When fighting broke out in the Clan Homeworlds they totally ruined their poo poo in the span of like 10 years, to the same level it took the Great Houses 200 to do. Also, it's a considerable possibility that West Point was blown up in the wars on Terra that McKenna stopped. Or WWIII.
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Yeah, keep in mind that the Star League was Space America in that most government was based from that area. It's key areas got hit hard.
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Mr. Despair posted:An 8 hour drive isn't exactly close. Anything under a day's travel is close in the great plains.
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Grand Fromage posted:Anything under a day's travel is close in the great plains. The only thing the drive to Minneapolis has going for it is that it doesn't involve driving through Wyoming like the ride to Denver does.
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Defiance Industries posted:Yeah, keep in mind that the Star League was Space America in that most government was based from that area. It's key areas got hit hard.
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Xmas Future posted:You're thinking of the Terran Hegemony, the Star league is like the UN. Bloated, inefficient, lacking any real power or credibility? That doesn't sound like the Star League this thread has detailed. 
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Trast posted:Bloated, inefficient, lacking any real power or credibility? That doesn't sound like the Star League this thread has detailed. For one thing, unlike UN troops, the SLDF shoots back!
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Xmas Future posted:You're thinking of the Terran Hegemony, the Star league is like the UN. The League was a Terran Hegemony... um, hegemony, really.
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Defiance Industries posted:The League was a Terran Hegemony... um, hegemony, really. It called itself a hegemony, but it wasn't, really. The Federated Suns weren't really a federation anymore either. No one calls themselves "Feudal Space Nation" but that's what they all were. Before it dissolved itself to form the nucleus of the Star League the Terran Hegemony was ruled by House Cameron the same way the other houses ruled their nations. When you have a "Hegemony Armed Forces" and a "Director-Captain" you aren't a hegemony anymore. You're a nation. I think this can be explained as the Battletech writers not really knowing, or caring, what a hegemony actually is, and just using it as "Government Type X." Either that or they figured that everyone called themselves something different, but everyone functions as a feudal aristocracy, so who cares if it doesn't make much sense?
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jng2058 posted:It called itself a hegemony, but it wasn't, really. The Federated Suns weren't really a federation anymore either. No one calls themselves "Feudal Space Nation" but that's what they all were. Wait so your telling me the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is not a) democratic b) run by the people or C)a republic? what next the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy roman or an empire? Just because a state calls itself after a type of government does not mean it has to behave like that type of government.
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jng2058 posted:It called itself a hegemony, but it wasn't, really. The Federated Suns weren't really a federation anymore either. No one calls themselves "Feudal Space Nation" but that's what they all were. I was referring more to the Star League being based mostly upon the TH being able to push people around. One of the rules of membership was that you had to accept the Star League Dollar and you couldn't have an army more than half the size of the SLDF forces stationed in your state.
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jng2058 posted:It called itself a hegemony, but it wasn't, really. The Federated Suns weren't really a federation anymore either. No one calls themselves "Feudal Space Nation" but that's what they all were. The Capellan Confederation is somewhat inaccurate at this point, but being psycho space-China/Korea this is in-character. The minor powers are normally accurate enough, with Alliance, Hegemony and Republic being used sensibly enough, but the Taurian Concordat is a bit 
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Arquinsiel posted:the Taurian Concordat is a bit But sounds better than the 'Taurian Assholes' and 'those guys even the Capellans don't like who live in a magical nebula space-maze'. Also, since the Catholic Church is not LosTech (and the Pope still lives on Terra), it's entirely possible the Taurian Concordat was first recognized (as a country) by the Church (which beats what everyone would've recognized them as before: Pirates), and that the Taurians decided to honor that recognition by naming their new country after the agreement. VVV It wasn't during the Amaris Coup (which is why the Federated Suns practices New Avalon Catholicism--since they got a garbled message and assumed it ment New Avalon was now in charge of the church), but it has been since ComStar took over. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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Well it is established that there's both an Earth Pope and a Space Pope (On New Avalon).
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Arquinsiel posted:Makes me wonder if the Vatican is still independant. more importantly it makes me wonder what kind of mechs the swiss guard pilot...
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Taerkar posted:Well it is established that there's both an Earth Pope and a Space Pope (On New Avalon). Is the Space Pope reptilian?
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I always interpreted the garbled message as "garbled." I mean, it's not like the guy couldn't have contacted the Cardinal on Atreus and asked if he got a message saying he was in charge too. He clearly wasn't TOO hesitant to declare himself the new Pope.
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Defiance Industries posted:I always interpreted the garbled message as "garbled." I mean, it's not like the guy couldn't have contacted the Cardinal on Atreus and asked if he got a message saying he was in charge too. He clearly wasn't TOO hesitant to declare himself the new Pope. To be fair though if he contacted the Cardinal on Atreus it probably would've just ended in "No, YOU shut up! I'm the Pope now!"
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That... is actually a really good argument. You should be proud of that one.
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Ferrosol posted:more importantly it makes me wonder what kind of mechs the swiss guard pilot... My money's on the Thunder  
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Xmas Future posted:My money's on the Thunder I don't know, you can't wield a halberd in just one hand.
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Ferrosol posted:more importantly it makes me wonder what kind of mechs the swiss guard pilot... The Swiss Guard had Clan-tech 'mechs before the Star League had Tech-2 'Mechs. You don't wanna know what they're piloting nowadays, but I'll give you a hint: they mount Rotary Gauss Rifles as tertiary weapons. You Do Not gently caress with the Swiss Guard.
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Ferrosol posted:more importantly it makes me wonder what kind of mechs the swiss guard pilot...
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Machine Gun Ammo Throwers. Yeah, I remember Battletech having a hard-on for elite regiments with fancy names. Kell Hounds, the Sword of Light regiments, Davion Assault Guards, the Eridani Light Horse (let's just skip over their track record...) And, of course, the Black Watch.
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Chicken Slayer posted:the Eridani Light Horse (let's just skip over their track record...) 
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Xmas Future posted:They killed a clan, gently caress the haters And later joined one.
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Arquinsiel posted:A quick asking of my friend who owns most editions of most books since Battledroids and it appears they don't pilot mechs, but they do still exist protecting the independant state of the Vatican City..... By the 32nd century they're using specially designed experimental battle armor suits.
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