Free Tex-Cal

> ngilsena@indigo.ie wrote:

Same goes for me...NSL ships look the coolest so that would be my power bloc

> At 11:47 AM 9/2/97 -0500, Bobby Mock wrote:

This is interesting given that Texas will starve given that California
provides a significant amount of agriculture to Texas. On the other hand
California needs Texas oil... Both states could reshape local use of resources
to make up for lack of the others (California could restart oil
reserves, Texas could re-start farming farms near the northern
border....)
but both would be innefficient. Very silly to make such a decision based on
such a thing as ego, but then Texas has plenty of that to go around
;)
I'm sure Colorado and Nevada will stay with California, we have better
beaches...

> Oh dear..I see the civil war is starting late this year. As a matter

Well, I have two answers for this one...

Answer #1: I would like to build Companies for the NAC, the
Pan-African Union, the Arabs, and the Oceanic Union.  I'd also like
to build some Merc and Colonial units, mostly because the figures are cool.
The closest I get culturally is League of Latin American Republics, but
Politically I guess I am a NAC'er (I'm Puerto Rican).

Answer #2: Good question. The NAC and the ESU are enemies. The LLAR and the
NAC probably don't like each other much. Does this mean the LLAR and the ESU
are allies? This is somewhat relevant since I am trying to develop the OoB's
for the "Mexican's"... I don't imagine the Mexicans would have NAC equipment,
unless it is captured junk from one of the border wars...

(This is as good a time as any. A whiles ago I said I could always
use my non-Jon-approved OoB's for the Puerto Rican National
Liberation Army - the "Macheteros".  Somebody connected Puerto Rico
and the "Macheteros" with Mexico. Other than the Spanish language, there is
nothing much else Puerto Rico and Mexico share. Puerto Rico
is a U.S. colony/territory/commonwealth/headache (pick your choice,
but be careful which one you use when speaking to another Puerto
Rican), and the Macheteros are a currently inactive pro-independence
Terrorist group. There, I said it. To quote my boss, "back to live action,
ladies and gentlemen...)

Any geopolitical alliance map out there?

This is petition for Free Cal-Tex to be rightfully named Free Tex-Cal.
Its either that or Texas wants to secede from the Cal-Tex Union, making
it Free Cal-Ex-Tex.

> Bobby Mock wrote:

> At 11:47 AM 9/2/97 -0500, you wrote:

Of course if Mexico, Southern California, and Texas wanted to secede, they
could be the Free Low-Cal-Tex-Mex.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

> At 11:47 AM 9/2/97 -0500, I wrote:

> Its either that or Texas wants to secede from the Cal-Tex Union,

Oh, and for you non-North Americans, Tex Mex is a type of cuisine (if
you can call food based heavily on beef and beans "cuisine").

> At 11:47 AM 9/2/97 -0500, Bobby Mock wrote:

Oh dear..I see the civil war is starting late this year. As a matter of
interest what is the allegiance of the various people on this list to the
various power blocks in Full thrust? Being rather a fan of NSL ships I suppose
thats where my allegiance lies. Anyone else? And do we have any seconders for
the Hibernian republic? Free Guinness to all who support it.

Excerpts from FT: 2-Sep-97 Re: Free Tex-Cal by ngilsena@indigo.ie
> Oh dear..I see the civil war is starting late this year. As a matter

Well, given the ships I use I suppose I support the Evil Empire (tm) that
dwells just outside the borders of the FT universe. However, since they & I
don't agree on lots of things, I'd say I'm a renegade portion of the EE, on a
five year mission to seek out habitable worlds to house
all the people on the ragtag fleet fleeing the tyranny -- um, wait, I
think I'm mixing storylines again. ^_^

> Anyone else? And do we have any seconders for the Hibernian

Hibernian republic?

> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 ngilsena@indigo.ie wrote:

Actually, I would like to see some more UN space ship and some more UN SGII
supporting cast..:)

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> This is petition for Free Cal-Tex to be rightfully named Free

You guys *do* realise that its Free because nobody wants to buy it... now they
are having trouble giving it away... soon the ad will go
Cal-Tex-We'll-Pay-You.

> At 10:46 AM 9/3/97 +1000, you wrote:

Donkey's years ago I had a temporary job as a newspaper indexer, indexing "The
Scotsman". As well as the daily news indexes, we took it in turns to index the
"Hatch, Match and Dispatch" columns from the paper going right back to its
beginning. There were all sorts of interesting little stories in those old
back issues; I remember seeing a classified ad offering "the navy of the late
Republic of Texas" for sale (I think there were 3 ships, maybe a frigate and a
couple of sloops).

cheers,

> This is petition for Free Cal-Tex to be rightfully named Free

Yeah. All you Texans can have it. All of the people left in California in
their right mind (about 3% of the current population, mind you) are planning
to relocate and join the NAC (since we've been annexed by the ESU anyway) or
the Hibernians, if the free Guinness offer still stands 8)

Come on in! Make yourselves at home!

We're leavin'.

KJ

> Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:
Hmm...Agriculture, lets see. Cal. grows citrus, Tex. grows citrus. Cal. has
vinyards, Tex. has vinyards. Cal. raises cattle, Tex. raises cattle. Tex. has
truck farms, Cal. has truck farms. The point is moot. Both states are ag
exporters, always have been. As far as other resources go I believe that Texas
has a slight edge in natural resources, and California the edge in
manufacturing, as of now. what we were (humorously) trying to say is that only
a Californian would think that
the term Cal-Tex was ok without checking with anyone else.
P.S. I used to live in Austin, a city that a lot of Californians are moving
to. They spent most of their time driving badly and complaining
that Texas wasn't like California. ;-)

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> Rutherford, Michael [IBM GSA] wrote:

Q:"Who towed that big hunk of the Sahara out into the ocean?" A:"Some
Austrialian. He wanted to make it look like home."

                             BIG ;-)