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  1. drakensis

    One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

    It's... technically canon. Unfortunately. I mean. Star Lord isn't the worst battletech novel. But it's pretty close to the bottom. Certainly below Far Country.
  2. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    I do have something of an interest in battletech fanfiction. Maybe I should write one ;) I don't know if Christofur Kelly was involved at all in the Jolly Roger affair but the affair itself was heavily entangled with ComStar politics and had significant repercussions, arguably being one of the...
  3. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    That's not really wrong. Except it was the religious extremists who pushed for supplying pirates. Then when primus had claimed credit, and the pirates were turning into a bigger problem, the primus sent someone to rein them in, that turned into a fight, so the primus had to mobilize the...
  4. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    Takashi Kurita is a direct male line descendent of Minoru Kurita, the Coordinator during the Amaris Civil War. Specifically, the line of descent is Minoru's second son Zabu's eldest son Yoguchi's third son Taragi's son Shinjiro's second son Hugai's elder son Hohiro's elder son Takashi. There...
  5. drakensis

    Not at the moment

    Not at the moment
  6. drakensis

    One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

    I usually find that about 5,000-7,000 words works for a chapter, but I write longer scenes than you do. For me that averages 3 scenes. My own criticism is that not much seems to happen in the scenes. I don't get a sense that we've gone from a starting point to an end point. There's no...
  7. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    The change of scene was poorly shown - the line break was hidden in a normal paragraph mark, and it wasn't very clear in the text whose perspective we were seeing. Generally speaking, the first paragraph of a scene should indicate the location or viewpoint clearly to mark that this isn't part...
  8. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    Well, the Dire Wolf is a much newer design in canon. Over a century later.
  9. drakensis

    One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

    A Charger with the engine of a Centurion 'mech wouldn't even be as fast as an Atlas - it's a 200 SFE in a 80 ton machine, so walking speed of 2.5. A Centurion fighter's fusion turbine has the right rating - 240 - but it's a turbine not a reactor so it's debateable if that's much use in a 'mech...
  10. drakensis

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

    That's exactly what the Thug was intended to do. Of course, the Maltex decided not to invest in multiple factories, so the production was stopped after their factory was destroyed (save for limited production by Earthwerks), whereas StarCorps was churning out Warhammers from at least six...
  11. drakensis

    One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

    Ah, but Kallon would face an insurmountable problem in producing the Crusader in the Federated Suns. The AFFS staring at the plans and then asking "Okay, smart guy. Where's the autocannon!?"
  12. drakensis

    One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

    My 'standard 240 mafia' for mechs is a: 30 ton 'super locust' 40 ton 'PPC Clint' 60 ton 'slimmer Katapult' 80 ton 'Awesome' basically the same engine and gyro, same weapons (PPC and medium laser), same electronics... This can then be extended to 80 ton tracked vehicles and 65 ton wheeled...
  13. drakensis

    Like Mother, Like Daughter? (W.I.T.C.H.)

    I'm not ruling more out, but I have no immediate plans and I have a Camp Nano project. I might get back to this in May when I could have time to do the research for a further part.
  14. drakensis

    Like Mother, Like Daughter? (W.I.T.C.H.)

    Must have missed that tag. fixed. And no, in this universe Nerissa didn't replace The Mage, or have a child with Julian. In this continuity, Caleb's mother is the Mage, thus his having some magical ability of his own.
  15. drakensis

    Like Mother, Like Daughter? (W.I.T.C.H.)
    Threadmarks: Like Mother, Like Daughter?

    Susan Vandom wasn’t having the worst day of her life. The worst day… Well, she didn’t like to think about it. But this was very definitely claiming the second worst day title, displacing an event she’d considered immovable in this position. *I’d ask what I did to deserve this,* she thought...
  16. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Thank you for writing what you have so far and I look forward to seeing what you do next.
  17. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I assumed the bit in this story about HPGs signalling everywhere in range was just how ComStar operated their HPGs, sequentially contacting all their neighbouring stations in turn, rather than them transmitting to all at once, which - as you say - isn't how they work. HPGs are point to point...
  18. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    And with a 50 light year range for HPGs, it's likely the current Confederacy is entirely within reach of transmissions from Terra.
  19. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Which suggests that the time and attention of the local regional governor is mostly focused on administering more worlds than the Terran Confederacy has in total, so them only once having the time and resources (and motivation) to add to that makes sense. He was effectively using a quiet moment...
  20. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    My own suspicion of what would be done with a K-F Drive at this point is to look for some star systems that aren't normally accessible by Jump-2 drives and settle one or more as a 'fallback' location where Terran culture and population can survive if the worst comes to the worst. This would...
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