Re: [FH] St^3 Jon on target again

I thought it was private...maybe it is in the archives...sorry man.

...a couple of years, and several email/computer crashes can play tricks
on my
memory.

I can't yet claim to be perfect...;-)

Donald Hosford

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >Are you refering to St Jon's marvelous FT timeline?
> >
> >When I asked him a while back (in a private email), about how he did
it and
> >why...
> >He told me that a friend of his (whom I can't remember the name
of...) created
> >the timeline (I think he said his friend tossed it togather).  Jon
thought it
> >sounded good, and pasted it into the game.
>
> I can't remember the exact exchange of emails, Don, but this isn't
quite
> right. What happened is that I originally wrote up the major events of
the
> timeline, including the development of FTL., the breakdown of the USA
and
> formation of the NAC, the Chinese incursion into the ex-Soviet
republics
> and the formation of the ESU etc.; Steve Blease (who is credited with
> co-development of the timeline in the FT credits) then fleshed out the
> basics that I'd come up with, adding much of the colour and details.
The
> subsequent extensions of the timeline in MT, FB2 etc. are mostly down
to
> me, though a lot of the more detailed bits used in SGII were Steve's.
> Then we'll have to see where we're going post-FB2......  ;-)
>
> Jon (GZG)
>
> PS: As I've said several times, the timeline is really only there to
give
> you all a valid excuse to put almost any force up against any other on
the
> tabletop!
> As an aside, for anyone interested in ideas for near-future political
and
> military background, there's a new(ish) book around by Simon Pearson
called
> "Total War 2006" - out in paperback from Coronet. I've just borrowed a
> friend's copy, and though I haven't read it fully yet a quick skim
> indicates that there may well be some rather interesting ideas in
it....
> >