> Who's responsible for transport. Tanks, guns, missiles, even planes
Yep, because they include it in their fees (explicitly or as part of a higher
profit margin). If you mean "can they afford their own transport vessel",
well, they don't have to own one, just charter one, since they won't be using
it all the time. However, there are mercenary warships. A
number of the ITT Nightvision / Night Music / Night Eyes series are in
service with mercenary corporations (of course, calling them "warships" is
rather stretching the term--they're sensor platforms plus a hot main
drive). The Kinetic Elench will operate as raiders under letters of marque and
reprisal; Murphy's Lawyers have three covert ops cruisers and several smaller
vessels; and so forth.
Gack,
Where did all those unit names come from? I guess I was more questioning how a
Merc unit could get from point A to B without out
either being -
A: Interdicted by local governments
B: Overtly obvious (in the case o in-house vessels)
C: Or overly compromised by relying on somebody else to move you. D: Or,
finally, finding themselves unable to find reliable transport for all their
assets to one locale.
Any of these could be major stumbling blocks. Don't get me wrong, I love space
mercs and that is in fact the role my PAs will play. They
form a small but effective force of hi-tech armored soldiers.
Eli
> "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu> Re:
Mercs in SpaceDate: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:31:16 -0500
> Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
A
> number of the ITT Nightvision / Night Music / Night Eyes series are in
is
> rather stretching the term--they're sensor platforms plus a hot main
> Where did all those unit names come from?
All from the Alarishi Empire.
> I guess I was more questioning how a Merc unit could get from point A
One hopes that your employer will be able to get you to the point of action,
because if they can't break a blockade to get you there, they're probably
going to lose. Depends on the size of the unit and the equipment. If you're
going as cadre, you can take commercial transport for the personnel and worry
about equipment later. If you're trying to bring a reinforced
armored infantry brigade--which I personally think is ridiculously large
for
a merc organization, not that anyone asked me--then yeah, you have to
hire people who'll get ulsers dealing with transporting you there in the first
place, plus making sure that you have access to parts, techs, ammo, etc which
the locals aren't geared up to provide.
> Any of these could be major stumbling blocks. Don't get me wrong, I
> At 5:49 PM -0800 1/9/02, Eli Arndt wrote:
I'd expect that they'ed arrange transport on vessels that are nominally
civilian in nature with some sort of warship escort. Given that the OU has
national forces that also operate on Mercenary arrangements, would they not
protect their own in general on the getting there phase?
Ryan Gill schrieb:
> >Where did all those unit names come from? I guess I was
> >for all their assets to one locale.
I guess this will depend entirely on what kind of scenario you have in mind.
Some examples: * Mercs are officially and openly employed by a government to
bolster its forces, perhaps to put down a rebellion. Other nations are
neutral. Mercs arrive on the government's ships.
* Mercs hired by a guerrilla movement against a ruling government. Mercs and
their weapons are smuggled in on blockade runners, probably in small packets
and men separate from weaponry.
* Mercs go rogue and decide to take over a minor colony. Mercs charter a
suitable civilian ship and pack everything on board.
* Mercs hired by a government to do some dirty work. For deniability, the
government arranges chartered shipping via its secret service.
etc.
Greetings Karl Heinz
I thought of a couple of interesting points on transport. For my unit, they
could easily ship their PAs as either agrocultural work suits, EVA suits, etc.
the weapons can be smuggled in seperately or provided by the employer as per a
contract.
Once on planet, local transport could be used for insertion/extraction.
I have some trasnport elements included in my organization, but they are for
battlefield use, not covert ops.
Eli