So what's the best way to go about this? I'm thinking we all take a post to write out our service records, and compile the history we have so far to get the ball rolling. If you think this is a good plan, I'll write out my bio in an edit to this post. Otherwise, well it's hard to say : :D
Much like "Siemens" and the Rheinmetall-gau in Germany and the Catholic church over half of Itally and south Europe mind you.Heh, my relatives live there, great country, great engineers - have you ever driven a Rheinmetall Nashorn MK III? I got to test one out for the cooperation agreement of '44, and they run smooth as hell. It's no miracle EA never jumped the channel; there may be internal strife, but when Gondor calls for aid... you know how we celebrated when those bastards tried to cross. I hear the water turned red from Cherbourg to Amsterdam.
August is a good time to fight a war, but might I recommend sometime in April? The best time to fight is during summer, so a well planned campaign would be more likely to begin before the summer. I think they would have provided for heavy resistance, and a war lasting months, at least. Starting in late spring gives you all of the summer and the fall to fight.
Not really. The majority of EA's operations are located in the northern hemisphere, as are many of it's terrestrial targets.August is a good time to fight a war, but might I recommend sometime in April? The best time to fight is during summer, so a well planned campaign would be more likely to begin before the summer. I think they would have provided for heavy resistance, and a war lasting months, at least. Starting in late spring gives you all of the summer and the fall to fight.
You're making the mistake of assuming the first assault was in the northern hemisphere...or on Earth (since there apparently are colonies on Io and throughout the asteroid belt.)
I like that Immaterial, but disassociated groups of resistance tend to get curbstomped by an organized opponent, would you be opposed to the organisation of those groups under the overall banner of the Independant Movement?My vision is that they are disgruntled citizens, turned revolutionaries, receiving aid from the resistance. They are strictly cell-based, being little more than militia and vigilantes.
If we are okay with assembling all the various factions under one banner, we need to know if the groups are rigidly military in nature, or strictly cell-based.
He was next attached to a number of different support units under multiple banners as part of Bay12's program to loan skilled support personnel in short supply in our allies.
edit: How did Bay12 become so strong? i am sure we took in some of the Kickstarters and SpaceX gave us an early advante but that cant be all.a mix of genetic engineering and Eugenics i suspect. By this time we are basicly a race of khan like supermen, it would explain our ridiculously high kill counts for one thing.
Okay, we'll go with "B12, the last hope for a free world", it sounds ridiculous, but we're here to have fun, right?Well, not just Bay12. It would be Bay12 plus the outer system's governments. So, a space UN, for instance, The United Extraterrestrial Settlements.
edit: How did Bay12 become so strong? i am sure we took in some of the Kickstarters and SpaceX gave us an early advante but that cant be all.a mix of genetic engineering and Eugenics i suspect. By this time we are basicly a race of khan like supermen, it would explain our ridiculously high kill counts for one thing.
edit just did some bad math for mine and nullforceomega's kill count (ussed Us governments cost for death star for mine and current cost of naval equivalent fo NSO's) and here are our fiscal damages to EA WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GET THIS MONEY
8.5e+17$ me
1.5e+13$ NullForceOmega
Why is half of my avatar photoshopped on one side, then the other half on the other? I worked for the resistance in the second war, after managing to get off the planet between wars, after being neutral in the first.Wars? They were multiple ones? I thought it was swift invasion, followed by occupation, then resistance from within and the skies.
Why is half of my avatar photoshopped on one side, then the other half on the other? I worked for the resistance in the second war, after managing to get off the planet between wars, after being neutral in the first.Wars? They were multiple ones? I thought it was swift invasion, followed by occupation, then resistance from within and the skies.
Final Year of the First EA War
Upon the discovery of support of resistance groups, EA acted and captured the central figures of Bay 12, Toady One and Threetoe. Within the raid, scamps was slain by the hired mercenaries. Upon revelation of this knowledge, Bay12 launched a massive assault that caught EA unawares, managing to recapture Toady One and Threetoe. The two were then evacuated to the Mars colonies. With the major damage to the structures by the Bay12 attack, an armistice was made between the two powers, which was broken by EA at the breakout of the second war three years later.
I picked the ones that seemed appropriate first, then I added people with avatars that fitted, then I just added everyone else.You are today's best person ever. Congratulations.
This is almost certainly becoming my new background. How did you decide who to put where?
Why is half of my avatar photoshopped on one side, then the other half on the other? I worked for the resistance in the second war, after managing to get off the planet between wars, after being neutral in the first.I ran out of people and you matched the colour scheme.
Sorry for the double-post.
I'm wondering if we want to draw up a list of available tech and weapons for the periods of conflict, so we can try to work out the ebb and flow of escalation?
Let me be clear, every single item on this list could be built NOW, with modern systems, the only reson most of them do not exist is due to the strangle hold various corporate interests and treaties have on the tech sector. What I have done here is take off the shackles, and tech is exploding to the level it should be at.
Edit for additional data: Energy weapon equipped tanks and aircraft, as well as naval assets are very possible.
Okay, I'm generally willing to give up the gravity control, I'm going to have to clear up a few points tho'.
1) fusion reactors: Toroidal-fusion reactors are a dead end, spherical fusion is a current, proven, process, in fact the test start started fusing so fast they blew out their damn power grid due to excess energy.
2) solar cells: those efficency ratings are for the specific spectrum of light the cells are built to take advantage of, my wife recieved her masters degree in geo chemistry at Colorado School Of Mines, many of her contemporaries worked at the national alternative power labs, and she vouches for the above statement.
3) Nuclearthermal (or for those unversed in the lexicon nuclear steam turbine generators): Why. Nuclear electrical induction works fine, and is many times safer.
4) particle weapons: as seen in science fiction are iffy, real world ionizing-path weapons, as tested in the 1980s are very viable, simple particle collection/charging grids are in use currently.
5)'pumped' or explosive lasers: I am going to stab Weber in the fucking heart for this idiocy, I swear to hell. A high-energy plasma laser using electro-magnetic bottle and lensing would be every buit as powerful and much less self-destructive for a much lower cost.
6) electrolasers: Otherwise known as the free electron laser, developed by Nikola Tesla, gaping hole in that weapon that no one wants to look at is it's tendancy to ground out on the nearest piece of metal. Powerful, sure, but less accurate than a sawn-off shotgun.
The plasma metal seperator sounds good, tho' low frequency sonic shockwave pulverizers work well to.
I like this feedback, it sounds like we have only a few sticking points on this list in need of further discussion, I'd like to hear any ideas you guys have for filling things out. (I realise I'm kind of sounding like an ass in this post, but the amount of tech we don't have right now due to treaties and private interests drives me completely berserk, I kid you not, I actually see red when I read about another system that will never see the light of day because some company or nation doesn't like it.)
Heph, I am going to have my wife cover that in a PM, she is vastly better than me at locating the supporting data, and she can even link you to the relevant scientific journals. As fo thermopiles and thermo-electric nuclear power systems, you seem to be having the same problem most people do regarding nuclear energy, the thermopile is a system sixty years old, modern nuclear power systems are generally of the electro-induction type, where current is generated by active decay of fissile materials, controlled by graphite 'control rods'. My wife will send further details in the PM.
I like power armor, but am directly opposed to the Halo-esque 'force-field/supercomputer' armor, the power armor I am talking about and is most feasible within the time frame is purely exo-skeletal, strength augmenting, and heavily plated, similar to Fallout or Rifts (Palladium Books) types.