Re: Stategic Thrust

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Rick Rutherford wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Brian Burger wrote:
> > See a post I made to the Hibernia thread regarding small nationalist
> > groups who ship out of Earth to form independant colonies, or who
> > rebel/seccede from their 'parent' power -- there can be loads of
these
> > factions, all enjoying varying degrees of success (or lack of same).
Some
> > ideas I'll just spin off here of groups looking for a place of their
own:
> > ...<snip>...
> 
> Yes, but how on Earth do they get off of Earth?

Two ways that I can think of: 1. The splinter group scrapes together
enough to lease a colony transport and grubstake its members, then heads
out either to find a world or find space on a discovered but empty
world. 

2. The parent govt. boots them off Earth- I can esp. see the ESU & IC
getting up to this sort of mass-relocation. For a view of this sort of
thing, read Anne McCaffery's 'Powers that Be' books.
  
> In other words, if a spin-off group doesn't have any starships or the
> means to manufacture and/or maintain starships, then what relevance do
> they have in Full Thrust?
> 
> StarGrunt is a different story -- assault rifles are cheap and
plentiful
> (from the point of view of a splinter faction, anyway), and you could
also
> make a case for Dirtside II, but I really don't see how the Free
People's
> Republic of Madison, Wisconsin is going to get into space.

Little relevance to FT, esp. brand new colonies. But older or rebel
splinters could have ships, good for small fleet actions. And just
getting
to a colony could be an FT senario itself -- say one splinter group,
already established, attacking the colonial fleet/ship of a rival group
to
continue hatreds/disputes from Earth. Eg. one Balkan (Yugoslavian) group
vs another, in old little ships, in some asteroid belt somewhere...

And  SG/DS ideas are natural, and even easier, esp. SG. 

> Rick Rutherford ----- rickr@digex.net ----- The above opinions are
mine.
> (snip)

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)