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  1. Soliciting Ideas -

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    Re: Soliciting Ideas -

     

    I might suggest taking a leaf from Jim Shooter: once you've beaten up on and defeated the plans of a whole bunch of people, those people are all going to have something in common - you.

     

    So, unless your team is a "take no prisoners" type, you'll have a lot of bad guys in prison, with a real hate-on for the PC's. Now, if somebody ELSE who doesn't like them should start breaking them out and incoroporating them into an anti-PC force..?

  5. Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

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    Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

     

    I loved some of the sci-fi stuff they brought out in the 80's and 90's, but it's like I was the only one.

     

    Electric Warrior from DC was an excellent piece, but it only ran 12 issues. At least they ended it, unlike Open Space by Marvel, where they just never published the last issue.

  7. Future submarine warfare?

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    Re: Future submarine warfare?

     

    One thing you could explore is the interceptor-torpedo concept. Having secondary tubes firing short-range interceptors at the big shipkillers could make a battle sub much more survivable (and B-G lasers for the next layer of defence, perhaps..?)

  11. Spacecraft size

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    Good point: the political situation will also impact ship design. Right now' date=' spaceships are designed to be as light as possible, which if you look at something that doesn't need to enter an atmosphere could be pretty darn flimsy. (Think of Apollo Program LEMs.) But the minute people start shooting at one another in space, all of a sudden survivability becomes a big factor and structural integrity a huge concern. Would it even be feasible, let alone practical, to launch any kind of armed-and-armored spaceship from Earth's surface? Or would it have to be built in orbit?[/quote']

     

    It would certainly be possible to launch a warship from Earth's surface - but that would be hideously inefficient, expensive and wasteful, both of fuel and of ship mass, since you'd have to build it to survive terrestrial conditions, and the launch, as well as space, rather than just space.

     

    So, not practical, save in emergency situations (the only such I can think of in litaerature is the Archangel Project spacecraft Michael in Footfall - and that's only possible using an Orion Drive to launch!)

     

    Orbital shipyards fed by orbital factories fed by mined asteroids are orders of magnitude more efficient than any other system. And could be primarily either automated or telefactored, reducing costs still further.

  12. WWYCD: Quantum Leap

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    Uncle Slam would prevent the death of Arch-Duke Ferdinand, thus pre-empting WW II. The war would happen anyway, but later and for other reasons. Then he'd have to find a way to go back in time to stop himself :o

     

    I think you mean World War One...

  13. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

     

    Just completed The Watch on the Rhein, by John Ringo and Tom Kratman. I found it very interesting, both as a straight actioner and because of the philosophies espoused, which can be stated basically as "Stereotypes have no merit; everyone is an individual, with their own reasons for their actions" and "Survival trumps all else." It's the interaction and conflict of those two philosophies that drives a lot of the conflict in the book.

     

    The book is part of the Posleen Saga. The German Chancellor, knowing that his nation is going to be overrun by the Posleen hordes within five years, is forced to decide whether to use alien technology to rejuvenate ALL of the available old men who were once soldiers - including those who were members of the Waffen-SS...

  14. WWYCD: The Champion Protocols

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    Re: WWYCD: The Campion Protocols

     

    Terminus would get The Edge together and have them investigate the original robbery. Most of The Edge have public IDs, so the protocols aren't that important to them; they'd be most interested in stopping whoever it was from releasing information about mor vulnerable heroes.

  18. WWYCD: Vengeance From Duress

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    Re: WWYCD: Vengeance From Duress

     

    Actually, Terminus would be in two minds about the situation. It would seem to him that Nebula brought this on herself. On the other hand, letting a bunch of demonic/villainous being have their way with her - that's not on.

     

    He'd summon The Edge, and Primus, then put a railgun shell through the marble jar. "I'm taking Nebula into custody. Anybody want's to leave, go ahead. No one's going to try to stop you. But Nebula is coming with me."

     

    Let the melee commence...

  19. WWYCD: The Nebula Affair

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    Re: WWYCD: The Nebula Affair

     

    Terminus would point out that her laws hold no jurisdiction on earth. If she replied that she did not accept that argument (as I have no doubt she would), Terminus would request the presence of the other members of The Edge, and ask Zero to mindlink them all.

     

    After explaining the situation, Terminus would then ask the team to aid him in taking Nebula down. I'm pretty certain we could nail her without getting hit (Miss Chaos slaps on her "flash everything" attack, Terminus uses his Light Lance, and Trawler haymakers - end of fight).

  20. The Champion Protocols (ie how to take down your character)

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    Re: The Champion Protocols (ie how to take down your character)

     

    With Terminus, things could be easy or difficult.

     

    His major weakness is Mentalism. On his world, there were no powerful Psis, so he wasn't engineered to deal with their powers.

     

    Otherwise, you'd probably want to hit him with gas attacks when he isn't wearing his Hardsuit - it's atmosphere sealed. He's quite good at dealing with conventional attacks.

  23. Re-Imaged Hero(ines)

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    Blood on the stone.

     

    That's what it was all about, in the end.

     

    1863 - The quarry was old, the crane rickety and weak, the man unlucky. The piece of rock fell from a height of fifty feet - and the tombstone he had just finished carving from the living earth was baptized with his own life's blood.

     

    The stone was scrubbed, and cleaned, and sprayed with noxious chemicals - and soon it was white again, and Geoffrey Walters bought it for his family's burial plot.

     

    Geoffrey was a good man. He provided for his family; he gave what he could to those less fortunate than himself; he tried to be the best he could. He laid three children beneath the stone, and their names were etched in the face of the rock. In time, his son, Edward, laid him to rest there also.

     

    Edward fought for his nation, and for his family. In two wars, and with the deaths of three of his own children, he slowly grew old before his time, and was laid to rest beside his wife of thirty years, at the feet of his father.

     

    His son, Martin, was the only survivng child, as Edward had been. He stood tall, fought when it was asked of him, and came home safe, determined to make a difference. He wore a badge, he walked a beat, and he fathered a fine son to come after him.

     

    James followed after his father. An only child, he worshipped his father, and loved to hear the stories of his ancestors. And when he was a man, he married, and took up his father's cause as his own.

     

    James did not walk a beat. He wore a fine suit, and his badge was gold. He put drug smugglers and gangsters in prison, and he went home to his wife and his three fine daughters.

     

    But then came the day, Martin died, easy in his sleep. And James and his family took him to be buried in the family plot, for his name to be engraved in the stone placed there so long ago.

     

    But James had made enemies, evil men who wanted him dead. And their bullets sprayed the blood of James upon the stone; and his wife, Samantha; and his three fine daughters, all the blood mixed together. The blood of good people, the blood of it's people, the blood of those the stone was made to guard, blood on the stone.

     

    Some say, the earth has a soul, a spirit as alive and real as any of us.

     

    Some say, even the smallest and least part partakes in it's own right of that soul.

     

    Can a stone be offended? Can a simple piece of carved stone grieve?

     

    The evil men did not long celebrate their success. Their house was smashed inwards, their bodies broken, their weapons less than useless.

     

    And the tombstone of the Walters family was nowhere to be seen. Only deep, deep footprints walking away from the grave...

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