Re: Hibernia Forever

Rob Paul wrote:
> 
> At 02:37 PM 9/3/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >> Well I too have a major NSL fleet so I guess that from that I am a
supporter
> >> of them.
> >>
> >> >Anyone else?  And do we have any seconders for the Hibernian
> >> >republic?  Free Guinness	to all who support it.
> >>
> >> Free Guinness? Got all my support then. No way they'd ever join the
fascist
> >> NAC. I actually have a few NAC ships that I intend to paint up as
Irish
> >> Mercernaries that I've never got around to painting, but now I just
might. I
> >> even have a few tiny guinness pictures that I could put on them.
Hmmmmm.....
> >>
> >>		     email J.Stephensen@fbs.gu.edu.au
> >
> >Oh dear...Well I doubt we'd have anymore than a few light cruisers in
> >this fleet.	A few celtic symbols might be more appropriate.
> >Of ourse all payment for these mercenaries would have to be in liquid
> >form.   I must admit I always tought Ireland would probably be more
> >likely to be FSE (European Union) than NAC.	Not that that should
> >stop anyone.
> >-----------------------------
> >Niall Gilsenan,
> 
> As I recall, Galloglaich were supposed to get 3 bullocks a quarter,
one
> being pay and the other 2 food!  My Scottish Socialist Republic ships
are
> mid-green, with a 2-letter ID code derived from the name, and the
larger
> vessels bear the old Scottish naval ensign (yellow sun rising from a
blue
> and white sea into a red sky).  I'm now scraping the cash together for
a GZG
> order- probably ESU, definitely some GF-range!
> 
> KR mentioning asking Himself for his "papal blessing" made me think,
how
> about the Papal States as a minor player?  Probably a core of
(crimson?) FSE
> ships, plus mercenaries from all over the place.  I'm thinking along
the
> lines of the splendidly terrible old BBC series "The Borgias" 
(Remember
> Adolfo Celi ploting to make people "deh Kink of Nipples"?).
> 
> Rob Paul
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In my background I've been using a gov't called the Celtic League. They
are basically several Scottish and Irish settled planets who've broken
away from the NAC, and 1 or 2 breakaway FSE planets, mostly of Gallic or
Galitian descent.
Their Fleet is rather small, with the biggest ship being a surplus NSL
battlecruiser, most of the rest of the fleet being smaller, and very
much homegrown.