Re: Hibernia Forever

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 ngilsena@indigo.ie wrote:

> > > 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"?).
> > 
> > IIRC, Ogre Miniatures has photos of a Papal States "Swiss Guard"
> > ogre, painted in yellow and purple stripes...
> > 
> > One is tempted to ask if the Scottish-Irish league would be a
> > Catholic or Protestant league...
> > 
> > -- 
> > David Brewer
> > 
> > "It is foolishness and endless trouble to cast a stone at every dog
> > that barks at you." - George Silver, gentleman, c.1600
> 
> <snip>
 
> I wonder if Luxembourg will have a fleet by then?  Or the Swiss?
> -----------------------------
> Niall Gilsenan,
> Dublin Institute of Technology,
> College of Catering and Tourism,
> Cathal Brugha St, Dublin 1,
> Ireland.
> 
The Swiss? Maybe. They'll still be armed to the teeth, probably, still
independant, bankers for anyone...maybe a few colonies, or a large
ex-pat
community spread thru space...

What about the Red Cross? Hospital ships helping struggling colonies,
running the inevitable refugee camps, supervising PoW stuff, all the
usual, but in an interstellar enviroment like everything else? I can see
gleaming white spaceships with big red crosses on the side being the
Swiss' main presence in space.

And Luxembourg (and Belgium) would probably be FSE member states, albiet
minor ones, well dominated by France.

Brian.