Re: The United States in Full Thrust

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:02:30 +0100 steve@pugh.net writes:
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>If you want to talk about the downtrodden colonial population, then 
>what about the inhabitants of the former LLAR?
>
>	Steve
>
>-- 

Yanqui, go home!

Seriously, I think the result, while *currently* unlikely, is **a**
model.	I tend to gloss over that part (burt I have an 'alternate
sector'
model i use in designing games so it's no big deal) and 'play on.'  The
big change I would make is a the idea that all of South America was
essentially 'evicted' from Earth.  Sound wrong?

Page 42 of FT:

look at 2050 (LLAR war threat), 2057(War of the Americas start), 2072
(War of Americas ends - Central America lost), 2075 (First LLAR FTL
ships), 2098 (Border clashes become war and in two years "...the LLAR
loses al possessions on Earth..."),   Yet the LLAr colony worlds supply
reasonable to large numbers of mercs in  wars (2128, 2165, 2166) later
(Implicit - see 2128 "...both sides employing large contingents
of...volunteer forces...")!

Okay, did the LLAR move the majority of the population to space
colonies?
 They had the tech and resources and will power to do that but they
couldn't hold South America??  The Homeland?  While it plays well into
my
setting, it doesn't hold water to me in a logical sense.  Yes, I *too*
am
nitpicking here...  Seems to be the thing to do today.

Glenn/Triphibious
This is my Science Fiction Alter Ego E-mail address.

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