Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

Can I just chime in with a MAJOR caveat here?
While all this discussion about fleshing-out the GZG-verse is 
fascinating (and please don't stop, I love reading this stuff....), I 
have to state once and for all that I DID NOT work any of this out in 
any kind of detail when the background was written! It was a piece of 
fluff to give a framework in which to push lots of little toys around 
the table - it was written to sound reasonably interesting (I hope) 
and sometimes amusing (bits of it were done with tongue VERY firmly 
in cheek...), and to give an excuse for all the different factions 
that we planned to do minis for to be beating the crap out of each 
other. We didn't work out any numbers!

So, please feel free to keep on working the little details out, but 
be aware that a fair bit of RetConning will be needed, and PLEASE 
don't ask me why some bits don't fit!!	;-)

More power to your thrusters,

Jon (GZG)

>Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>>  I think with the Israelis it's not so much that other militaries
won't
>>  come to their aid as civilian governments might not sell them spare
>>  parts. The French tried to do this with the Mirage fighter and also
held
>>  onto some patrol boats that the Israelis had actually paid for. (The
>>  Israelis ended up stealing the boats  and  reverse engenineering the
>>  Mirage, with improvements).
>Hence the two FSE Battlecruisers in OU service, the "Prince Leonard"
and
>"Princess Shirley". They had their missile systems ripped out and
>replaced with B-2s and armour when the FSE refused to supply spare
>parts. There were other changes too, none of which would affect the SSD
>nor model's external appearance.
>
>The two BCs comprise the Hutt River Province Astronautical Navy, but
>explaining why the HRP is an independent nation yet part of the OU
would
>take too long. It's complicated, and makes no difference anyway, apart
>from the uniforms. Historical reasons, basically, and some back-handed
>politics within the FSE so they could implausibly deny selling military
>gear to the OUDFm and the OU even more implausibly deny buying them.
>
>Yes, this long-standing part of OU history was "inspired" by the
>France/Israel farce.
>
>Zoe
>
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