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

Brian Burger wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:
>

> > Sometimes it gets difficult to stop adding on..	:-)
>
> Tell me about it...that damned website of mine has more bits and
pieces to
> keep track of every time I turn around...never mind timelines!
>

Oy!

>
> > 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?
>
> Really, really strange people? Maybe these deepspace 'Americans' have
> twisted patriotism into some sort of fundamentalist religion? The
thought
> occured to me as I was reading your timeline...esp. with the Catholic
> Church involved somehow - maybe some sort of strange fusion of
Catholicism
> and patriotism has evolved? With a healthy dose of
government-sponsered
> zenophobia thrown in. (the Non-Contact laws...)
>

Another good idea!  (And I thought I was the only crazy one here...)

> What about 'American' vs Kra'vak battles? Maybe have the Kra'vak
beating
> up on the 'Americans', who decide to lift their age-old ban on contact
to
> see about getting some help?
>

Very, very interesting.  One of the thoughts I had was that the Kra'Vak
were working
WITH the Americans.  In "good cop/bad cop" arraingement, aimed at
conquring all of
human space.  (I laughed, and said naaa....you know...there are
possibilities
here...)

> Majorly...I was unpleasantly shocked when I ran population figures
through
> the various formulas provided by listmembers. The population of my NAC
> colony suddenly fell by about 60%! (My initial SWAG pop. figures had
been
> more Wildassed Guess than Scientific...)
>
> I've still got those population formulas around, if you want them.
>

I have been using a simple program I wrote up on my laptop.  I have been
thinking of
expanding it to handle the growth of all of the colonies and the home
world at
once...should be interesting.

>
> I can't see the NAC agreeing to give up territory on Terra, though.
They
> didn't conquer it, they have a fairly solid claim to be the successor
to a
> legit American govt - plus they've been in control of the whole ex-US
for
> 140 years or something like that. 9/10ths of the law...
>

I have been thinking this also.

>
> Help, new allies, the NAC will probably accept. The deepspace Yank's
are
> going to have to get used to the idea of the Duke of Memphis, Tenn.,
> however! (The citizens of Memphis, Tenn. probably are!)
>

Considering the antics of our current government, it makes me think that
peaple can
get used to anything.

> > 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.)
>
> Bend it 'til it creaks...I doubt it'll break entirely, but you might
get
> some strange results. (Speaking from DS2 vehicle designing here,
having
> explored the outer limits of Dirtside design with some damned silly
> vehicles...Ogres, mostly...thus re-proving the maxim about "The bigger
> they are, the harder they fall")
>

In my own experience with ogres, the bigger they were, the harder they
were to
kill...Those things could eat "a lot" of tanks...

>
> > Earth History is a hobby of mine, and Future Timelines are one of my
favorite
> > things...
>
> Earth history's all we've got, here and now... :)  Except for
Alternate
> History stuff, but that's Earth too, and off-topic.
>

Yep.

>
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