Re: The United States in Full Thrust

Brian said
> Well, we're probably all lucky that Mr. Atkinson is temporarily
absent,
> given his habit of coming down on
'yet-another-breakaway-NAC-colony/American-Revolution-redone' like a
ton
> of rectangular building thingies.

I have his rant on that subject, I just can't find the folder/zip
archive/disk ...so I'll improvise:

> I'll reserve my comments on homegrown breakaway NAC colonies to
merely:
> Why does only the NAC appear to have massive numbers of breakaway
> colonies? Why are all these colonies mostly American? Should all
these
> revolts be taking place in 2176?

  Why, in fact, is probably one of the more easy-going governments the
one with the most breakaways?  It can't be because you don't have
sufficient imagination, because it doesn't take more than a sixteenth
of a thimbleful of imagination to come up with a faction.
   Look up "languages" or "ethnic groups" on the web.  Pick 1d6 of
them (randomly: Sinhala, Khakas, and Mon).  Okay, where do they come
from? (In this case all of them come from ESU areas--Sri Lanka,
Siberia, and Indochina).  Now, here's the tough step: learn something
about them!  Then decide why they'd be revolting against the ESU.
Money -- they found an iridium deposit and don't want to pay 55% taxes
on it??  Religion -- a prophet has appeared from the wasteland to
preach agaiinst the heathens/infidels/oppressors/etc?  Shipping lines
were cut by NAC for a while and they had to live without central
direction -- and decided that was a good thing?  Okay, now why would
they think they can get away with it?  Did the FSE promise aid (and if
so, did they provide it, fully or partially)?  Or were they just so
stung by ESU offenses against their religion or other rights that they
just decided that death is better than serfdom?  Or has the ESU
decided that they'd be more useful as a nominally independent puppet?
Or has the place been sucking up resources and the ESU has just
stopped supporting them?  Maybe the IF has been sending in
missionaries/agitators, the NSL wants to buy mining rights and the
Phalons have offered to make them a semiautonomous province.