Re: [FT]USA in Full Thrust...

Brian Burger wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:
>
> > I have put my "American Time Line" on Thomas Anderson's  FTP site.
> > Here is the URL:  http://members.xoom.com/gzg_l/usa/
> > The file is called: USATL.ASC.   It is an ascii file.
> >
> > This file is my take on the United States.	(They secretly build
> > starships, and leave the solar system in 2053.  They later return in
> > 2188.)
> > Any comments are welcome!
>
> Well, it's interesting. A lot of work went into it, I'm sure. It's
your
> universe there, so you can do anything you like...
>

Sometimes it gets difficult to stop adding on..     :-)

>
> You lay out half a dozen options for the 'American'-NAC conflict after
the
> 'Americans' re-emerge from deepest space. I think you left out option
'C',
> however:

>
> 'Americans' pop their fifty ships out of Jump, and begin to make
> outrageous demands of the NAC. NAC Battlegroups deploy with NSL and UN
> support, and order the 'Americans' to act civilized. Failing that,
they
> get trashed. Fast scout squadrons fan out, from many powers, all
concerned
> about these unbalanced, unknown humans.
>

Opps!  Missed one!   Good idea though.	In spite of what I think,
(Flatten the
NAC!  Revenge!	But, there are probably two things against that:  One it
has
been 135 years...who could keep a grudge that long?  And second, as I
pointed
out, the Kra'Vak are coming in like gang busters...The Nac, ect will
have
their hands full.)  It would make for an interesting number of
battles...

>
> The NAC has several billion people, by the most conservative rekoning
of
> listmembers. Naval lists have been estimated at 2000+ ships by some
> listmembers. It's going to take more than a deepspace colony with a
bad
> attitude to do in the NAC.

Well, I have yet to estimate the final population size/number of
colonies,
ect.  I have desided that there shouldn't be more than twenty or thirty
worlds, and time limits the population size...

>
> Most likely, is that some sort of alliance is worked out, if the
> 'Americans' can be made to see reason. Trash the Kra'vak, then sort
out
> human-vs-human problems...

Yes, my first probability.  It seems unlikely that the NAC would say no,
or
the Americans to be that angry after all those years...

>
> One good thing about a group as isolated as these 'American's : really
> different naval design philosophy! Isolated from the whole mainstream
for
> ages - a good excuse to try out some _really_ different designs, in
> quantities!

One of the reasons I dreamed them up!  8-D

 This way, I could bend the daylights out of FT/FB1!  (Within limits, of
course...wouldn't want to be a munchkin...I plan to have the Americans
advanced in some ways, and limited in others.)

>
> Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)		  -DS2/SG2/FR!/HOTT-
>	- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9774/games.html -
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Earth History is a hobby of mine, and Future Timelines are one of my
favorite
things...  I had to throw in the possibility of the Americans wanting
war,
because it is a possibility...albeit a small one.

Thanks for the comments!

Donald Hosford