Re: Discussion topic - rewriting (future) history....?

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>On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  4. The least likely things in the old continuity are the most
heavily
>>  entrenched in miniatures. The NAC was tremendously unlikely (I mean,
God
>>  Save Her Majesty The Queen of Canada, but Britain rescues North
America?
>>  Don't know if that works... and then taking over all of South
America? Not
>>  likely). The ESU probably at least as unlikely. But they are both
popular
>>  blocks of minis.
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>I thought Jon developed the NAC as he did to have a fun tweak at those
of us
>across the Pond here.	:-D  I *thought* that's how he once explained it
to
>someone, but I could be misremembering.
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>Mk

You're remembering exactly right there, Indy - which ties in with my 
comments earlier about FT getting far more world-wide exposure than 
was ever envisaged when it was originally written. Back in those 
days, in pre-internet times (at least as far as I was concerned) and 
not having any kind of transatlantic distribution, I really never 
expected to sell more than a handful of books outside the UK - and as 
a large number of the gaming products coming over here from the US 
appeared to have a very "America rules the world/known space/the 
universe" outlook, with the British being very much sidelined and 
ignored in many cases, the formation of the NAC was very much an 
"in-joke" to redress that balance a little! The premise behind it was 
always, of course, a loooong stretch of credibility....  ;-)

Jon (GZG)