Re: Stategic Thrust

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Brian Burger wrote:
> See a post I made to the Hibernia thread regarding small nationalist
> groups who ship out of Earth to form independant colonies, or who
> rebel/seccede from their 'parent' power -- there can be loads of these
> factions, all enjoying varying degrees of success (or lack of same).
Some
> ideas I'll just spin off here of groups looking for a place of their
own:
> ...<snip>...

Yes, but how on Earth do they get off of Earth?

In other words, if a spin-off group doesn't have any starships or the
means to manufacture and/or maintain starships, then what relevance do
they have in Full Thrust?

StarGrunt is a different story -- assault rifles are cheap and plentiful
(from the point of view of a splinter faction, anyway), and you could
also
make a case for Dirtside II, but I really don't see how the Free
People's
Republic of Madison, Wisconsin is going to get into space.

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I've seen the lights on the CSU/DSU glitter in the dark near the router.

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