Re: Far Stars Union Pages and a little more

In a message dated 2/5/00 1:16:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk writes:

> tom
>  
>  [1] i think. Indonesia became independent from the Netherlands in
1949,
>  having declared its independence in 1945; i think it was formerly
known as
>  the Dutch east indies.
>  
>  

And the Indonesians used captured Japanese weaponry against the Dutch
IIRC 
(or was that the Viets vs the French--could have been both).

Yes, I know.  Which is why I made them "allies" in this case.  The
scenario 
background has the FSE "renting" a testing area from the Dutch, but the
Dutch 
still own the system.  The IC are working as mercenaries for the FSE. 
Both 
sides (NAC et al and FSE et al) discover the Kra'Vak facility at about
the 
same time and scramble to get forces into position--and since the Dutch
are 
the "legal" owners of the place, they come along (besides, this way they
get 
first crack at any technology--the Dutch aren't stupid).  And it is
THEIR 
system after all.  The IC force commander doesn't get any say in the
matter 
anyway--as they just have to do what their employer tells them to do. 
So the 
situation makes for strange bedfellows--never seen that historically,
right? 
:-)

Remember--while the players are on teams, an individual will win (well,
it 
could be more than one, but not necessarily).

As for the ships--I scratch-build most of my stuff, so the only FB ships
were 
those that I had actually purchased.  For the FSE, the Garibaldi's were 
butchered Imperial Star Destroyers from Galoob and the Epee DD were from
the 
Silent Death range.  All other non FB ships were scratch-builds.  I
tried to 
keep the design philosophies consistent with FB, though, so it shouldn't

really pose THAT much of a problem.

If you play it, let me know how it went for you.