Re: Outrim Coalition

I like it.  It sounds like a more interesting place to nestle my own
little 
colony.  Makes me consider evolving changes in the CNP concept.

After everything that's been posted, I'm still not sure where I will
want to 
fit in to the Tuffleyverse.  More info on the ORC would be VERY
interesting 
to me.

Brian

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

>From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@eisa.net.au>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: Outrim Coalition
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:21:50 +1100
>
>Regarding the OutRim Coalition,no-one has done any blurb for it.
>
>What do people think of this :
>
>"The ORC is a loose alliance of many different colonies that were
>left to fend for themselves when the major powers all but abandoned
>defending them to concentrate their forces on the Core Worlds after
>2185. The original nucleus was a band of extra-legal (read Pirate)
>forces that raided the KV supply lines, then joined up with small
>colonies that had been by-passed by the main KV assault. As such
>their first forces were old, obsolete designs and repaired wrecks.
>However the low-tech designs they had access to were perfectly
>fitted for dispersed, non-centralised production. Even colonies
>that had had most of their industries wrecked could produce parts
>for early 22nd century ships, so many of the ORC fleet were actually
>new production of old designs.
>In fighting the KV, they have become like them. Their Pirate origins
>have led them to raid even Core worlds, and should the KV menace be
>ended, they are likely to be a theat in their own right. Because they
>feel betrayed by the rest of humanity, are proud of their "frontier
spirit"
>that saw them through tough times, and see the "soft decadent 
>core-dwellers"
>as being sheep for the slaughter.
>
>They call themselves ORCs."
>
>
>

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