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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 4, 2006 4:50:51 GMT -5
Not necessarily. We don't know where the Toad homeworld is in relation to other worlds. Might be one of the first that explorers bump into.
Your idea about privateers is an intersting one. Given the size of the SPACE I had wondered if member worlds might increase the size of their own military forces. Or we could go back to the beginning of the Toad War, when the UAC as hiring anyone with a gun. That could be used to explain the characters lack of experience.
I can't think of a way to justify the UAC building a new ship and then giving it to a crew with no experience.
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Post by Zingydex on Apr 4, 2006 5:33:26 GMT -5
Other than not HAVING anyone with any experience? Mimi LaFleur led a rag-tag resistance group that got absolutely nowhere until Bucky intervened, and she got command of a ship for that. That doesn't sound like a nation with reams of experienced warriors to draw on.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 4, 2006 6:58:50 GMT -5
Do we know what she did before she was enslaved? I understand that in the web series she was a mercenary.
The UAC is an alliance. Even if they had no candidates centrally, there would be some on member worlds. Even if they (somehow) they had no soldiers they would have skilled pilots and engineers.
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Post by Zingydex on Apr 5, 2006 11:50:07 GMT -5
If they really had all this (presumably willing) talent to draw on, they wouldn't have had to scrape the barrel to pull together two of their three crews. An ex-space pirate, a ten-year-old alien child, at least one former mercenary/arms smuggler ... a big chunk of S.P.A.C.E. is drawn from the dregs of society, the absolute LAST places you'd go looking for troops.
Someone needs to take up the slack there, and from the looks of things it'll take a private venture to do it.
I wonder how a privateer crew would get along with S.P.A.C.E., given their necessarily different operating styles.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 5, 2006 14:01:05 GMT -5
Deadeye is an expert marksman who has been pardoned, the alien is a genius and we don't know what skills LeFluer's crew has.
Would you want this to be set in the near past or the present?
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Post by Zingydex on Apr 5, 2006 20:33:13 GMT -5
Depends how you define "near past" and "present". Are we including the web series continuity in this?
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Post by Norris on Apr 6, 2006 0:32:38 GMT -5
I'd say 20 years in the past if we were going to set it in the past.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 6, 2006 3:56:44 GMT -5
I would consider any point from the beginning of the origional series to be the present.
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Post by Norris on Apr 6, 2006 4:20:27 GMT -5
And there's little time between the two if compared to the full timeline.
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Post by Zingydex on Apr 6, 2006 6:15:39 GMT -5
Just like all of human history is like a dime at the top of the CN Tower if compared to Earth's geological history.
20 years was long enough to turn the known aniverse on its political ear, if I remember correctly. And it's long enough to make the difference (to me) of having to totally rewrite a character or not to make them fit. Personally I still prefer the present as defined above.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 6, 2006 6:47:35 GMT -5
By my timeline twenty years would put us just before Komplexes take over of the toad homeworld.
Alright, thats two possibilities. What does everyone else think?
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 10, 2006 3:20:39 GMT -5
Deadline for new theme submissions is the end of this week. At the end of the week you potential players can vote on what overview you want to play. If fewer than four people vote then we go and do something else until we get four people.
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Post by Brian the Flying Penguin on Apr 15, 2006 14:46:08 GMT -5
Okay then. Lets get voting. Past or present?
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Post by Kooshmeister on Apr 15, 2006 17:27:28 GMT -5
Well, I prefer the present. Prequels irk me. Then again, I probably won't end up participating so my opinion shouldn't really matter.
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Post by Norris on Apr 16, 2006 0:26:16 GMT -5
Past.
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