Your Favourite OTU Race/Species/Whatever
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I hope I'm not breaking the rules when I express my opinion that this is just so wrong on so many levels
. Neither Judge Dredd's universe nor that of Babylon 5 has jump drive, so how can thery possibly be Traveller universes?Ah, but it's still the universe of Charted Space that has been developing for 30 years, not that universe the way it was 25 years ago?
Hans
No, hans, you're not breaking the rules. But neither are you correct in your assessments of the two forthcoming TU's.
Judge Dredd does have interstellar travel via some form of FTL drive.
Bab 5 has a keyhole drive; it's as much traveller as many people's ATUs using FF&S.
Judge Dredd does have interstellar travel via some form of FTL drive.
Bab 5 has a keyhole drive; it's as much traveller as many people's ATUs using FF&S.
I'm not one of them, but a lot of people feel that the jump drive and the lack of FTL communication faster than the ships themselves are two of the small handful of characteristics that makes a universe a Traveller universe. IIRC there was a poll about it some years ago.
(Personally, I think that the vast and intricate history of Charted Space is what makes a Traveller universe, but I'm aware that I'm in the minority there.)
Anyway, what makes my opinion wrong and Mongoose's right? Um... Unless it is Marc Miller's endorsement, of course... Oh, well, forget I asked...
.Hans
Gong back to the poll. It all depends on what you mean by 'favourite', doesn't it? The Aslans are among my favorite bad guys. I love showing up those bigoted thieving hypocrites for what they really are. But I wouldn't want to play one :devil:.
(I wouldn't say the Aslans were my number one bad guys, though. Going by the numbers, Humaniti wins by a large margin. They're just so versatile in the BG department.)
Hans
(I wouldn't say the Aslans were my number one bad guys, though. Going by the numbers, Humaniti wins by a large margin. They're just so versatile in the BG department.
)Hans
A minority that I happen to almost be a member of
Anyway, what makes my opinion wrong and Mongoose's right? Um... Unless it is Marc Miller's endorsement, of course... Oh, well, forget I asked...
Hans
o:Gvadakoung
SOC-6
Vargr!
I really have a lot of fun with this race, it's fractious politics, it tempermental pride as a people.
My handle on these boards is the name I have given to a region of Vargr space IMTU, where this abuts the Imperium in the Antares Sector, where my campaign is set.
Some day I should post about the Vargr religion/charismatic cult/psionic movement, "the Hand of the Maker", that I have come up with to make life in that region of space a bit more interesting.
EDIT - My bad - Apparantly when I grabbed "Gvadakoung" as a regional name for my Antares Sector campaign, I was actually borrowing from the Nobility article in GDW Library Data, where mention is made of "the Order of Gvadakoung (established to honor loyal Vargr citizens)", as Aramis reminds me in another thread. >.<
I really have a lot of fun with this race, it's fractious politics, it tempermental pride as a people.
My handle on these boards is the name I have given to a region of Vargr space IMTU, where this abuts the Imperium in the Antares Sector, where my campaign is set.
Some day I should post about the Vargr religion/charismatic cult/psionic movement, "the Hand of the Maker", that I have come up with to make life in that region of space a bit more interesting.
EDIT - My bad - Apparantly when I grabbed "Gvadakoung" as a regional name for my Antares Sector campaign, I was actually borrowing from the Nobility article in GDW Library Data, where mention is made of "the Order of Gvadakoung (established to honor loyal Vargr citizens)", as Aramis reminds me in another thread. >.<
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Why of course they do: they're Brits! AB notwithstanding, most Brits I've run into that also had a thing for comics and gamed thought Judge Dredd was the be all-end all of cool, as did some Brit-wannabe associates....
Meanwhile, I'm trying to explain that it should be 'draft' not 'draught' because you don't pronounce thought 'thoft'!
He just said I was daught....
Gvadakoung
SOC-6
Though, through, thought, enough, cough, bough, borough, hiccough, lough...
It is nearly easier to simply specify hoe "ough" isn't pronounced in English.
English (in its many dialects) has no consistent spelling worldwide... and semi-consistent spelling in most countries that use it. And then there's Scots and Friese... neither is engish, but you could mistake them for it.
That's why there are proponents of Anglo-Cyrillic and Unifon. (I'd be happy with either!)
After all, how does one pronounce Lieutenant??? I've heard several different "dialectical" versions... Left'nant, Leftenant, Lou-tenant, Lee-ew-tenant, Loo-ten't.
That's why there are proponents of Anglo-Cyrillic and Unifon. (I'd be happy with either!)
After all, how does one pronounce Lieutenant??? I've heard several different "dialectical" versions... Left'nant, Leftenant, Lou-tenant, Lee-ew-tenant, Loo-ten't.
Rhialto the Marvelous
SOC-13
Not to mention foc'sl'.
Or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
ThunderChilde
SOC-13
foc'sl' for the wondering, if their are any, is very short for Forecastle. Olde English for the raised fighting position on the Bow of a ship. See the Mary Rose for an example during the reign of Edward the 8th.
I was a squid! It's FOHKS-uhl. Kind of in the spirit of Bosun. Which is short for Boatswain.
I was a squid! It's FOHKS-uhl. Kind of in the spirit of Bosun. Which is short for Boatswain.
≤sarcasm≥
Tell it to the gunny with a MoH who beat those pronunciations into our heads, squidly.:smirk:
≤/sarcasm≥
Gunn'y Bradley's 5-foot-2...
He won't take no S*** from you...
Tells you how you gonna stand...
Tells you how to be a man...
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That had to suck: a noncomm with a MoH? do you salute? even if he tells you not to? And when he was in drill mode, did he snap at the flag officers for NOT saluting?
That explains a lot about Marines! But you've got to admit; a million hung-over sailors can't be wrong! :smirk:
Does that cadence precede the whole company shouting at the top of their lungs, in unison,
"THIS IS MY PIECE!
THIS IS MY GUN!
THIS ONE'S FOR SHOOTING!
THIS ONE'S FOR FUN!
SOUND OFF! (ONE-TWO)
SOUND OFF! (THREE-FOUR)
ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR,
ONE-TWO! THREE-FOUR!"
(stomp-stomp! clak-a-lack clack!)
Ah, gotta love drilling. That with screwing it up the second-to-last week of boot camp and getting cycled like dog for it probably lent to the six-pack I had when I graduated boot-camp. I went thru boot camp in the summer... in Florida.
But could you picture that? Me with my clean-shaven head and 4 inches or so of beard coming to attention before a leatherneck almost a head shorter than me, saluting smartly and shouting, "It's FOHK-sul Gunny!" and saluting again? I chuckle just thinking about it...
BlackBat242
SOC-14 1K
Boot camp at MCRD San Diego, Ca the summer of 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Recruit_Depot_San_Diego
Nearing the turn-around point of our 5-mile formation run and looking to the west & south at the scum-sucking baby-squiddlies sitting on the back steps of their barracks (NRTC San Diego, Ca).
http://oldbluejacket.com/bootcamp.htm
Trying to hear what the instructor says on the obstacle course, while a commercial airliner takes off 100 yards on the other side of the fence (Lindbergh Field, San Diego Intl Airport).
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...HlCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image
NRTC SD has been closed, and MCRD SD has taken over the former Camp Nimitz the sailor mentions in my first link (the smaller part in the upper part of his first photo, and the lower left MCRD section in the Google map).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Recruit_Depot_San_Diego
Nearing the turn-around point of our 5-mile formation run and looking to the west & south at the scum-sucking baby-squiddlies sitting on the back steps of their barracks (NRTC San Diego, Ca).
http://oldbluejacket.com/bootcamp.htm
Trying to hear what the instructor says on the obstacle course, while a commercial airliner takes off 100 yards on the other side of the fence (Lindbergh Field, San Diego Intl Airport).
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...HlCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image
NRTC SD has been closed, and MCRD SD has taken over the former Camp Nimitz the sailor mentions in my first link (the smaller part in the upper part of his first photo, and the lower left MCRD section in the Google map).
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