RE: [sg] Merc Guild

On Friday, January 04, 2002 9:06 AM, Laserlight
[SMTP:laserlight@quixnet.net] wrote:
> From: B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com>
> > A la Hammer's Slammers from David Drake or the Dorsai from Gordon
> Dickson.  In both cases the justification for mercenaries was that
> they brought experience and equipment that the hiring government could
> not provide on its own.  It seems reasonable that an agricultural
> world would not have an extensive military tradition that would
> provide whole units on demand, perhaps not even equipment.
> 
> Of course, that does raise the question of where the merc units get
> the funds to pay for something a government can't afford.  Corporate
> units, perhaps, or big loans.  Maybe merc units have a loan insurance
> officer instead of a political officer...
> "Major, stop that pursuit!"
> "But we have the enemy right where we want them!"
> "Yes but you're risking MCr50 if they counterattack!"
> 
*bang*
"Chaaaarrrrrggggggeeeee!!!!!!"

Brendan Robertson
'Neath Southern Skies