Re: The United States in Full Thrust

Jon, it's your timeline **but** where did the masses of the LLAR merc's
come from?  Unless this was a very elite group led by the child of
Falkenberg's son and Hammer's daughter there are a big bunch of 'mothers
of warriors' (to use a Cherokee term) out on the colonies breeding these
soldiers.  What did the LLAR do?  Convert to LDS and practice polygamy?  

(Relax, all you LDS types out there, I know you don't do that now -
after
all, I am Ex-LDS and know more about church history then the average LDS
church attending member does.  Unless you have gotten better about
teaching the adult converts about that...)

Seriously, to have a lot of troops running around, there has to be a big
enough population base (many moms) or one big birth rate... like 4:1 or
more...  I can understand this in Starguard's timeline but I never got
the impression the FT/SG2/DS2 timeline has mass exodus' occurring...

Glenn/Triphibious
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:24:28 +0100 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
>>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)
>>
>>Glenn/Triphibious
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>>
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