> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 devans@uneb.edu wrote:
> Interestingly, this feeds to the work I've been doing on the Corporate
aha! so it's you who is behind that fiendish corporation! your name and mail
address have duly been added to the prelim list. which has moved,
incidentally:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ0938/gzg/cyc-list.html
and become html.
> Having first tried cut-out images on card, I decided to use Evil
i'm having a hard time visualising the bolt pistols - they're titchy,
surely? - but it sounds like a very cool concept. now all i have to do
is get my Royal Dutch Shell tankers up and armed...
> I know the above doesn't make a lot of sense, but I have fleshed it
well, if you have any material on the web, i can link to it.
Tom
That wily Thomas sed:
> -On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 devans@uneb.edu wrote:
-> Interestingly, this feeds to the work I've been doing on the
Corporate -Wars
that
-> led up to the formation of the Texaco Corporate States (trying on yet
-another
-> name).
-aha! so it's you who is behind that fiendish corporation! your name and
-mail address have duly been added to the prelim list. which has moved,
-incidentally:
-http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ0938/gzg/cyc-list.html
-and become html.
You have to pin me down, don't you? ;->= Actually, in my fluff, the
corporation is dead; the loyal employees, horrified by the terrible
destruction occurring when the skirmish battles got totally out of hand, and
fearing midnight reprisals, fled to deep space prospecting outposts.
Natch, a government run by former corporate committees is going to take
FOREVER
to come up with a real name. ;->=
-> Having first tried cut-out images on card, I decided to use Evil
Empire -(tm)
Ork
-> (tm) Bolt Pistols (??) with the handle cut off to represent modified
-independent
-> commercial ships with strong company ties, fighting small border
-disputes. I
-> liked the idea that the bolt pistol muzzles were actually add-on
-military
-> engineering sections (engines) the corporation kept on hand for just
-such an
-> occasion, and weopen systems dropped in whatever available cargo
-opening.
-i'm having a hard time visualising the bolt pistols - they're titchy,
-surely? - but it sounds like a very cool concept. now all i have to do
is
-get my Royal Dutch Shell tankers up and armed ...
I was thinking of the smaller, independent traders of the Traveller universe,
but even more kludgey and cramped. Nasty, smelly boxes barely keeping the
occupants alive while searching for that lifetime find.
The kind of dumb, brutal existence that would give someone reason to risk life
and limb for a possible cushy company job, you know?
Converted tankers are what the new state's fleet will pretty much be. These
will use the model aircraft weapons and fuel tanks that I've been cutting and
pasting for years (VERY off and on)...
-> I know the above doesn't make a lot of sense, but I have fleshed it
out -a
bit,
-> given the bits and pieces from FT and MT of a parallel military
history -in a
-> gritty corporate universe.
-well, if you have any material on the web, i can link to it.
;->= You've just seen about the only thing I've formally set down,
either via electrons or on real paper. Still waiting for the MS Frontpage
module that'll transfer images directly from my imagination to the web. Given
their track record, I'll probably end up with a lobotomy...
-Tom
The_Beast, who continuously amazes folks with his feats of laziness
PS. To the fellow I promised a sample Micromachine Romulan Scout, don't take
the above as the reason I haven't sent it yet. I just haven't found same in
morass I call a basement. I don't blame you for your job; you just traded one
dumb,
brutal existence for... ;->=
Oh, by the way, this all started when I though how kewl the suckers would be
with red and black current Texaco logos. ;->=
The_Beast
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 devans@uneb.edu wrote:
> That wily Thomas sed:
there is no escape. resistance is useless. you will be recorded.
> Actually, in my fluff, the corporation
aww, i was really looking forwards to accounts of planetary bombardments and
other atrocities commited in the name of shareholder value!
> Natch, a government run by former corporate committees is going to
although they would probably do it quicker than a government committee
...
> -> Having first tried cut-out images on card, I decided to use Evil
fair enough; we could envisage an AT+T -> baby bells type situation in
which, say, texaco was broken up into a zillion little independent companies,
leading to this situation.
> kludgey and cramped. Nasty, smelly boxes barely keeping the
what? are we talking about siefert's new computer again?
> The kind of dumb, brutal existence that would give someone reason to
aah, we *are* talking about siefert's new computer again.
> -> I know the above doesn't make a lot of sense, but I have fleshed it
well, what there is is in the list.
Tom