Re: The United States in Full Thrust

>On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:02:30 +0100 steve@pugh.net writes:
><snip>
>>
>>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.

No, they didn't move the population en masse - probably just the leaders
and most of the high-ranking military, along with whoever else had the
money to go (ie industrialists, business leaders etc).... I think this
would leave the general populace and the remains of the armed forces in
enough disarray that the NAC could complete the "subdueing" of the
masses
left behind.

Jon (GZG)
>
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