"I could back then! I was self-taught!"
Ayala just shudders in musical horror. Ah Adults vs Teenagers in bands
Done. As soon as we come up with an excuse to have the design
The prevailing view is that with the way the TC is currently rolling out new mechs, designs and recovering old ones well in a few years time no one will really care about an excuse.
Mostly they'll be concerned with either a) nicking the design b) buying them from you
@#$#@%#$@#!!!!
Try again.
On that note roll for Recruitment 3026 please
She has my personal thanks.
We will see what the future brings.
You've just saved her a few billion dollars in C-Bills in setting up a new factory, of course she's happy.
Its just marrying Lisa would make Katrina even happier
Heh.
I can't wait until she arrives.
Akeno's arrival following the revelation of Edward Liao-Calderon is actually fairly muted. The political circles have much more interesting things to talk about.
Akeno herself (have you watched DxD?) is a classic Yamato Nadeshiko, also her pet dog takes a liking to you right away.
... about half right. At least the damned souls of the SLDF being roasted in lakes of nuclear fire part. ^_^
Heh
"You son of a bitch..."
Kill stealing noob >_<
Nah Hanse is the OP player whose built up a massive force over time
I talk to my marshals. What's better? To keep it away from Grover Sharplin or use it as an excuse to have a force on hand ready to blow him up should the impulsive paranoid nut do something comically stupid?
Sadly he's not an impulsive paranoid nut. Grover's simply a powerful lord whose got legitimate grievances against the FedSuns whose a massive Romantic about the TC's storied past before the Star League.
Flaum's lord however is offering to foot a good bit of the bill himself however.
Done. And I want the Mackie to get "Reverse Engineered" and then put back into production.
The 9H?
Thankfully with all the TC's Vlar 300 lines its a fairly easy process to get them expanded even more as work is on going.
They expect the first Mackie to be rolling off early November 3026
With the 5th Guards books being re-opened on June 1st 3026 "Cornet Taurens" has gotten a promotion to Lance Commander in the 1st Guard as personal transfers happen.
The 5th's loyalty to the Protector gets rated as Fanatical right away.
VMI and TTI both get a Toro plant and I present them to the public by introducing the first of Bessie's "New Children"
PPL's board makes an impassioned plea to get a Toro plant as well
I simply nod. "Can do. See to it. And as for you... I have a job for you personally..."
I make him noble ruler of Haven. He's done more than enough to earn the honor.
And have the designs distributed wide and far... with the full compliments of the Taurian Concordant.
Aramis Dunn gracefully accepts the honor.
When the design for the J/U water filter truck is presented on the 1st anniversary of your reign to the major courts of human space, jaws drop, your praises are sung and you've scored a major diplomatic victory.
Comstar graciously spreads the design to every world its contact with as a "Shining example of humanity", by late May Skobel, a Terran company, has used the open sourced design to begin pumping out thousands a month. They quickly come to prominence as the major provider for worlds within 250 LY of Terra.
Oh, I mean the technology will in time become very worthwhile so best to start on it now while building a day-hawk like design.
I don't like the grenade launcher and would rather have a MG based weapon and additional ground speed and secondary arms.
Oh yes your Marshalls would love to have plenty of Commandos equipped with Nighthawks as well. That ECM and stealth systems are something else.
Its really more a matter of time before regular NightHawks can be built, they'll get there eventually
Good plan...
I spend some time looking into the New Dallas Core for records of deep sea diving exoskeletons...
I personally like more armor, more infantry, and I intend to attack a fully REGIMENT to tube arty to each formation.
Yeah. I'm building the TDF to murder the clans NOW so when they do show up...
Part of its the TDF's limited transport capability, until big droppers and more jump collars show up a 1-1-1 unit is about the maximum that can be projected reliably as a single force.
Crap. I need some way to get people in on this project even if I have to partially farm it the hell out!
Which is fine and dandy in a battlemech but isn't needed in a fucking personal music player.
"Consumer goods are designed to break with heavy use..."
Planned obsolescence is a thing.
BT Consumers have a suggestion for planned obsolescence; Nuke it, nuke the designers, nuke their factories then nuke the planet the owners live on.
Unless somethings food or meant to be disposable (aka wipes etc) people hate fragile goods that break in under a decade.
Most goods are supposed to last at 70 years (of every day usage) before breaking.
Oh, and who doesn't find this at all fucking suspicious?
Given Isis is very much a Ten, and from the latest photo's has turned that into becoming the hottest MILF this side of Katrina Steiner.
Flipside is that TMI pretty much guarantees that the Liao's didn't pull off the Dropship kill, now if little Edward had been born before hand.....
And I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't conceived in a goddamned lab. All you need is one discarded condom and one insane plotting douche bag... you know. Par for course?
There is that, however Isis was known to visit the Concordat and Edward (Senior) a fair bit before hand.
If I have to I'll sell the fucking manors and send him the money
Its pocket change for you
I pretty much am very blunt. Does he really fear New Avalon so much that he'd kneel to the Celestial Throne?
Lets just say my response to this is blistering enough to cause paint to peel.
On the same note I want them all watched like hawks. If they BREATH too hard I want to know about it.
Given the Worlds bordering the Capellan March all consistently view the Federated Suns as an active and dangerous threat (raiding has only been stopped for seven months), they very much fear New Avalon and its ambitions vs the Celestial Throne which has been raiding the TC at a vastly lower scale.
There's a reason the Concordat Cuirassiers as of January 3025 didn't take prisoners when fighting FedSuns forces, a policy officially stopped once you were recalled because the Colonel isn't a complete political dimwit.
These worlds are also the ones that will absolutely go furious if an actual alliance with the FedSuns is signed without a significant boon (aka old TC worlds returned). Not only the Lords but the planetary populations.
Flipside is that your opposition has pretty much polarized around a single tent pole. They aren't actually doing anything at the moment however but TMI is keeping a sharp eye on them.
I smell Bullshit in the air.
Max for all his ego has a keen eye on the strategic situation, pitching in CCAF forces to fight a civil war in the Concordat would only weaken him.
Stirring up trouble domestically for you on the other hand, well its not costing him a dime.
If I decide to enact a policy of interference, he'll be the first to know.
And now he dares to dictate policy..
Its not so much dictate policy as a notification of "Stay out of the affairs of Successor States, and I'll ignore you. Don't, well be prepared to take your lumps."
Polity request that my kinsman be sent to live with his family and homeland and a polite and somewhat positive from his POV but actually utterly non-committal response to the rest.
I expect him to say no.
Max's response is a very public gesture.
He's raised Edward Liao-Calderon as the ruler of Rollis with Isis Liao as his regent.
Max also politely notes that tearing a month old baby from the arms of his mother is a rather drastic step to take. However he does support Edward's links to the Concordat and has already established a trust in Edwards name to pay for his education at any Concordat university or Academy.
In the meantime I need to talk to the canopians. And need to meet Emma and her mother.
I also want to meet madam Humphreys
I'll also want to talk to the both all at the same time.
Kyalla suggests a meeting over Detroit with Duchess Humphreys in November. Would that be acceptable?
And once we have the Helm or illyria core I send a message to Hanse. We need to talk as well. And i'll need a personal rep for Katrina Steiner there who's empowered to make critical decisions that she will abide by. I need someone beyond ambassador but a personal envoy.
Depending on the results of the above two, they might be included in the third.
Breaking News for August 3025: Comstar News Bureau
* After the recent Liao occupation of Stein's Field the Federated Suns has been reporting shocking news of human experimentation by the occupying Liao forces. Photos of heavily burnt and mutilated bodies in tanks (think SWs bacta tanks) are shown. Claims that locals were tortured and mutilated to provide subjects for medical experimentation
CapCon officials strongly deny any wrong doing, insisting that the individuals in question are soldiers in the CCAF and the units in question are part of prototype surgical system to heal the wounded.
Noted Mechwarrior and close friend of Hanse Davion Colonel Adran Sortek who was injured in repulsing the Capellan invasion has joined the First Prince on Argyle[/quote]
