An entry with a Bang! - A BT roundrobin II

[DB_Explorer]

Originally Posted by Keiran Halcyon

That would be hilarious...especially if they get Earth + 50ly chunk of the Terran Imperium from Sidhe's 'The Consequences of Not Being Polite' Universe...holy cow. C* would just about have time to rue their actions before being immolated by the TIN.

or have Blue pencil bring in Shinji and warhammer 40k

Comstar vs Shinji Ikari

[Richardson]

Or a few hundred base stars who go to town on them, while we have to clean up the mess.

[georgiaboy]

Originally Posted by Warringer

How about something more simple?

And perhaps a few real aliens?

How about some Ninja Space Dragons?

Along with their "Chosen One"?



And BTW, when are you continuing that one?

[Raneko]

Originally Posted by Keiran Halcyon

Firstly, in your location tabs, Earth is Sol III, not Sol II - which is Venus.

Second, I highly doubt Benedict would use "'Comstar' guys" when referring to C*. Change that to 'we cannot allow these 'Comstar' upstarts/fools/heretics to do with humanity what people accuse us of doing. Their abuse of God’s name simply cannot be tolerated.'

Fix that and then its got the green light from me.

I would like to point out there are now two sol systems.. So what the hell do we call our system now?

Sol Beta?

[evilauthor]

Originally Posted by kingdragon

Has such a limit ever been stated? If not, just make shit up!

2 Things you need to consider:

1) Would it be plausible (ie not break SoD) for Earth to do this?

2) Does doing this serve the overall story? Currently, the limitations of KF Drive protect Earth as much as hinders Earth.

[Warringer]

Originally Posted by georgiaboy

Along with their "Chosen One"?

Not necessarily. They could as well be the ones from Back Home. Those got no 'Chosen One' of any kind. Any no magic.

Still the idea of having a couple of Silent Blades sneaking up to a few ComStar/WoB ships and than slug them from knife fighting range (about 25000 km for them) has its merrits.

And BTW, when are you continuing that one?

Eventually.

[walkir]

Originally Posted by Raneko

I would like to point out there are now two sol systems.. So what the hell do we call our system now?

Sol Beta?

We already used "Sol II" several times, and so did I in that post.

[evilauthor]

Originally Posted by Raneko

I would like to point out there are now two sol systems.. So what the hell do we call our system now?

Sol Beta?

Do you REALLY expect Earth to call themselves second anything?

Not that duplicate naming as never come up in real life before. You just do like in Real Life and tack on a location qualifier. "Sol, Inner Sphere" vs "Sol, Grantville Cluster" for example. And it of course helps that the primary planet of each Sol is named differently, "Terra" vs "Earth". "Sol-T" vs "Sol-E"?

In any case, there's eventually going to have to be a convention or something in-universe on how to handle the duplicate naming.

[evilauthor]

Originally Posted by walkir

We already used "Sol II" several times, and so did I in that post.

It would be easy to go back and change things since the only place "Sol II" is ever used is in the location stamps.

[walkir]

Originally Posted by evilauthor

It would be easy to go back and change things since the only place "Sol II" is ever used is in the location stamps.

True. Perhaps Sol-ISOT? Na, sounds terrible. Helios?

[Prince Charon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory

Been thinking about that, and wondering if someone on C-Earth might sponsor research into it.

[DakkaMania]

Originally Posted by DB_Explorer

or have Blue pencil bring in Shinji and warhammer 40k

Comstar vs Shinji Ikari

It would certainly be interesting to see their reaction to the EVAs and the AT field, or the frickin gargantuan cannons they are building, or psychics.

Shinji wouldn't have to lift a finger, although the thought of what he could do to the IS...

*shudder*

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory

Been thinking about that, and wondering if someone on C-Earth might sponsor research into it.

Even if we can't get FTL or a good STL drive out of it, at least short term, we could use it as a stealth drive because they can't exactly detect a gravity drive.

[DB_Explorer]

Originally Posted by DakkaMania

It would certainly be interesting to see their reaction to the EVAs and the AT field, or the frickin gargantuan cannons they are building, or psychics.

Shinji wouldn't have to lift a finger, although the thought of what he could do to the IS...

*shudder*

The angels would suddenly wonder which planet they should attack


maybe terra

[Knobby]

I hate to sound like the internet version of a little kid on a car trip going "are we there yet?" every few minutes, but did no one have any comments on my revised submission regarding O'Malley? Or did I forget to use some secret handshake to get the section recognized as something more than some whackjob street corner preacher shouting to everyone and no one?

[Vianca]

Originally Posted by Knobby

I hate to sound like the internet version of a little kid on a car trip going "are we there yet?" every few minutes, but did no one have any comments on my revised submission regarding O'Malley? Or did I forget to use some secret handshake to get the section recognized as something more than some whackjob street corner preacher shouting to everyone and no one?

Why? I can't see any real outstanding problems with it?
Gues the others ain't either.

[Keiran Halcyon]

Originally Posted by Knobby

I hate to sound like the internet version of a little kid on a car trip going "are we there yet?" every few minutes, but did no one have any comments on my revised submission regarding O'Malley? Or did I forget to use some secret handshake to get the section recognized as something more than some whackjob street corner preacher shouting to everyone and no one?

No, no secret hand shake. Usually when no one comments it means they've got no issues with it and your segment is good and has ticked all the boxes. Sometimes its just that you've posted when everyone is deep into some other aspect of the story/debating something and they just forget about it, next thing you know your post is already three pages in the 'past'.

Anyway. I've got no problems with it going into the Story Thread. It's your story of a cannon-cocker employed in the Buron Cavalry - keep O'Malley's arc going - don't make this a one-shot, tell his story with multiple segments over time as events unfold showing his perspective and opinions of it.

[Knobby]

Originally Posted by Keiran Halcyon

Anyway. I've got no problems with it going into the Story Thread. It's your story of a cannon-cocker employed in the Buron Cavalry - keep O'Malley's arc going - don't make this a one-shot, tell his story with multiple segments over time as events unfold showing his perspective and opinions of it.

Oh, I do intend to keep going, but it may be somewhat sporadic, as my Muse is a tempermental bitch at the best of times.

If nothing else, since he knows even less about BT than I do (no minor thing, that ), as his story continues he'll have more than a couple of choice words about how the Inner Sphere does things.

[JonBerry]

Given that by author fiat, the days of the year match up on CEarth and Terra, how much opposition do you think the people of the CSN would have to moving their Calendar forward to synch up with the rest of the Sphere? Officially skip all the years from 2008 to 3024 (i.e. 31 December 2007 -> 01 January 3024)?

[Mosati]

Originally Posted by JonBerry

Given that by author fiat, the days of the year match up on CEarth and Terra, how much opposition do you think the people of the CSN would have to moving their Calendar forward to synch up with the rest of the Sphere? Officially skip all the years from 2008 to 3024 (i.e. 31 December 2007 -> 01 January 3024)?

10-15 if your very optimistic. I see a lot of people sticking with the CEarth calendar for generations when on Earth and only using the IS Standard when dealing with the IS.

We can look at the Honor Harrington novels as they bring this up frequently. Our future colonies would be in the same situation, Homeworld for them is CEarth, but their local year could be significantly different.

[wolfzoid]

sol is the sun not planet so sol ll can be sun 2

[HawaiianOnline]

Originally Posted by DB_Explorer

or have Blue pencil bring in Shinji and warhammer 40k

Comstar vs Shinji Ikari

Which would end with Unit 01 casually taking a stroll through C* headquarters at Hilton Head after using the AT field to jump directly from SI&WH40K-verse Earth to Terra. Why?

"BECAUSE HE WILL KICK FASA-PHYSICS TO THE CURB!!!!!"

That's why...

In any case, I would suggest that any weapons research into the ISOT ends in spectacular failure, like temporarily bringing forth eldritch abominations forth who then wreak havoc upon the assembled researchers and military forces until BT verse physics reasserts itself and they vanish in a supernal flash...

Then again, some Manei Domini might think that that was a successful weapons test. Better it just fizzles in a disappointing pop...

[DB_Explorer]

Originally Posted by HawaiianOnline

Which would end with Unit 01 casually taking a stroll through C* headquarters at Hilton Head after using the AT field to jump directly from SI&WH40K-verse Earth to Terra. Why?

"BECAUSE HE WILL KICK FASA-PHYSICS TO THE CURB!!!!!"

That's why...

In any case, I would suggest that any weapons research into the ISOT ends in spectacular failure, like temporarily bringing forth eldritch abominations forth who then wreak havoc upon the assembled researchers and military forces until BT verse physics reasserts itself and they vanish in a supernal flash...

Then again, some Manei Domini might think that that was a successful weapons test. Better it just fizzles in a disappointing pop...

First: LOL

second point: I'm kinda worried that he would consider that a successful test..

[evilauthor]

Originally Posted by wolfzoid

sol is the sun not planet so sol ll can be sun 2

Sci Fi convention (and who knows, maybe even scientific) is to name planets after the star. Ie, Epsilon Eridani VI would be the sixth planet in the Epsilon Eridani system, not the sixth star to be named Epsilon Eridani.

That's why I suggested the "Sol-E" and "Sol-T" as the distinguisher, or just say "Sol, Inner Sphere" as opposed to "Sol, Granville Cluster". It's not like names have been duplicated before. Does a small town in a US state named Paris call itself Paris II just because there's another city in another country named Paris? No, you just say "Paris, StateName" and "Paris, France" to distinguish them.

[JonBerry]

Well, at least no one will confuse Terra and Motherlode as the same world. They're hundreds of light-years apart!

[EdBecerra]

And once we crush ComStar, we'll be the Sol Survivor...

Ed.