From Beth:
A question on your timeline, really a question about the general GZG timelines
on the net... with all of space available do the same enemies trip over each
other as happens on Earth? Why not unexpected new tensions? I can understand
general tensions, but with little padding it seems illogical (though maybe I'm
being naive) for
"2126 The colony on Tzfat (population ~50,000) is overwhelmed and destroyed by
IF forces." Similarly why the sudden strike by IF in 2173?
Reasonable questions, and possibly I'm carrying too much current politics and
animosities into the next century. I also was not particularly looking at the
map for those events. If we go by Nyrath's map (or other potentially logical
colonization paths) IF and NI could indeed be very spatially separated except
around Earth itself. Perhaps the 2126 event is a Jihadi splinter movement.
Perhaps it's the IC instead of the IF (though they may be more spatially
separated). I could see the ESU or the Romanovs, or the LLAR overrunning and
annexing the colony, but not destroying it. The 2173 Homeland war was
something
I wanted to 1) put a climax on NI-IF hostilities in pre-Fleetbook time,
so that there was a groundwork for encounters in the "present," but not a hot
war on top of the Xeno war, and 2) give NI a reason to ramp up it's military
industrial complex to build its own fleet. The Homeland War clears out the
motley assortment of secondhand and purchased NAC, NSL, and IJN elements and
converted freighters.
Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability. -
Donna Lewis
> the 2126 event is a Jihadi splinter movement. Perhaps it's the IC
didn't the IC hire NI mercenaries?
> a hot war on top of the Xeno war, and 2) give NI a reason to ramp up
Normal ship lifetime could do that...what, about 40 years for naval vessel,
usually, yes?
G'day,
> Perhaps the 2126 event is a Jihadi splinter movement. Perhaps it's the
On Nyrath's map the IC is close enough on the 2D plan, though a reasonable
distance away in the 3D plane. More importantly, in 2131 NI mercs are hired by
the IC so I would say its unlikely the IC are the ones responsible for over
running the colony in 2126 (tensions would most likely to still be too high
unless the NI is itself fairly faction ridden at that time and the mercenaries
are exceptionally pragmatic).
> I could see the ESU or the Romanovs, or the LLAR overrunning and
Given the 2127 declaration by the NI it probably actually does make sense to
say it was an Islamic group, though I would probably switch from a colony
overrun to another terrorist attack of the nature of the original one on
Israel (or if you really want it to be a for sure IF
thing then make it a covert ops/suicide mission and NI/NAC or something
intelligence sources uncover undeniable evidence as to that link and official
sanction). That way you don't have to leap as many hurdles in explaining how
the IF managed to get large scale military forces there and it would fit with
the "upcoming" 100th anniversary (both from the extremists wanting to mark the
act and the NI feeling that nothing has changed so they need to renew their
declarations and step up their operations). As to why they then hit IF bases
rather than go on a terrorist hunt (assuming you go with the terrorist idea
not the
covert-ops one) that may well have developed from the practice today of
punishing nation st! ates for not reining in the actions of extremists from
that nation.
> The 2173 Homeland war was something I wanted to 1) put a climax
I think just age would do a lot of clearing out and the relationship with the
NAC may be panning out such that (a) the NAC is asking for NI military help
given the pressures it finds itself under (like US calling on allied support)
or (b) the NI feels vulnerable as its old fleet hits retirement age and the
NAC finds itself stretched by the conflicts its in so the NI decides that it
better not rely on anyone but itself.
Anyway just a thought