From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:01:52 -0500
Subject: Non-canon powers and the LE
Non-canon powers: I find some of the non-canon powers very persuasive in that they have more verisimilitude than some of the canon powers (NAC jumps to mind...). But, in order to integrate smoothly with others, I opted (as did Laserlight) to work on detailing canon powers and non-canon powers small enough to fit inside the Tuffleyverse and be below anyone's radar. I've got a list somewhere with hundreds of NAC ship names (I'm trying to compose a list that is comprehensive). I've got a few for the other powers. Eventually, this will appear as part of my Jane's 2183 project... but that is slow in coming due to other commitments. I'm sort of half heartedly working on the NFR as a small canon power (New French Republic) because I have an idea of who might have made it up (Basque seperatists, Quebecois, disenfranchised FSE, French from the African former French colonies, etc). No one seems to have claimed it, and it made a good place to try out some alternate FSE designs and has some good historical battles to drag together mercenaries, local NFR forces, the FSE and the NAC. Again, this is a project in mid-phase. I've worked up a fair part (except for finishing haggling with Laserlight on some details) of an AE sovereignty known as the Turing Republic. A small, but interesting, addition to the almost- chaos of the Alarishi Empire. Known primarily for the quality of its research establishment and its disproportionate computing resources. A friend to the NI, a friend (though in a low-key way since the Emperor finds this relation distasteful) to the UN, a friend to the Japanese, the NSL and the IAS. And to a number of other AE sovereignties like the Planet of the Geeks and New Los Angeles. But small enough to be well below the radar of any of the major powers, except when they're very bored (and in the case of the NAC, have an ax to grind). Someone asked about La Legion Etrange. It played a heavy role in my "Grey Day To Die" scenario at GZG-ECC-III. The 5ieme REA (Regiment Etrange Aerospaciale) was deployed as part of the human task force (and unfortunate end the NSL and FSE forces came to eventually explains how they split apart). For a bit of fiction which covered the lead-up, here's an old blast-from-the-past link: http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/AGreyDay.htm For some pics: http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/gzgecc/gzgecc3/sat2-gallery.shtml http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/gzgecc/gzgecc3/sat3-gallery.shtml http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/gzgecc/gzgecc3/sun-gallery.shtml Some quotes, at least one of which has attained a semi- legendary status (Hi Ted....): http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/gzgecc/gzgecc3/quote-board.shtml A few I'd like to specifically single out: More from A Grey Day (yes, it was still going!): Tom P: "Because it's honorable." Joel: "I don't care. We're French." "We woulda kept playing but the figures were getting tired." - Ted Arlauskas, end of A Grey Day scenario. Definitely from A Grey Day: David Raynes (on saturday): "I'll give you $1.50 to stop shooting at me." <later> "$3.50" <later> "$7.00" <next day> "$12.00, that's my final offer." The AAR has never fully been published.... perhaps because there is another scenario to be run as a followup sometime. The result of Grey Day was the humans handed the KV their heads (okay, they took a goodly beating to do it). But the KV couldn't finish the op after losing their armour and a lot of their aerospace. And at the end, a Legion counterattack was underway with newly revealed PA and infantry walkers (okay, the KV sniper did get to within RB1 of the French Major before firing, but he was also within RB1 of the hidden group of vehicle techs.... who promptly bagged his butt after he shot the Major). Pity the KV plans involved sanitizing the planet for forensic reasons..... "BOOM". Thus leaving the FSE and the NSL suspicious of each other... So, in short (or not, but it's me so that's nothing new), I'd say the FSE Legion Etrange Colonial is well represented in the GZGverse. Tomb