Recent content by Evilutionary

Perfectly sensible thinking and in general I'd agree with you except for three things. EA's potential transport & communication, EA's telepaths (obvious), and the example of that special bit of Btech implausibility that is Wolfnet.

Well, nBSG's unforgivable crime is that it was the first TV series to do mid-season breaks that I know of and much fewer episodes per season. It sort of falls off a cliff in season 3 iirc (when the refugees settle down temporarily on the ice age planet) but some serious stupidity shows when the...

Eh....it's kindof become a thing with Battletech. Nobody ever learns;)

Well they'd certainly shit a brick once the real origins of the EA come out. Not so much about the cross dimension thing (though that will be a worry) but more about the fact they have a Real Earth(tm) with a population of 10 billion and a industrial capacity probably equal of that of at least...

;) Might be true for written English, but in my experience for Brits (Southern whatever) is the only folks I've heard using more unnecessary abbreviated words, nicknames, and incomplete sentences are Australians (though I've seen or rather heard Australians give nicknames based on nicknames)...

Technology comparisons between settings are always tough and really is more of a narrative choice by the author depending what type of story they want to tell. Mass drivers fired from orbit no doubt will chew through battlemech armor but I'm not sure about any other comparisons. Don't see a...

Back in the 90's I read a lot of studies & papers on the subject and various assessments. One I found surprising was how non-participant 3rd world countries would fair post-war after a full on nuclear war (especially compared to the US). The general assessment for any I remember was it'd be a...

Yah, pretty much. The thing about totalitarian states (and all the Successor Lords are to one extent or another, just the DC & CC are by far the most centralized) is they crumble slowly and then all at once. If the Coordinator and his heir are gone and the centralized bureaucracy is knocked...

She doesn't have to, she has JumpShips not to mention all the other goodies she's supplying more or less free of charge (conditionally to mercs I suppose that they go to war for the FC). "You want that pipeline of JumpShips to stop? Then keep pressing me with questions."

Heh.... they absolutely do raid their neighbors. It is a central part of the Succession Wars (from the Chain Gangs kicking off the 2nd to the primary offensive action in the 3rd). On top of that you have the other actors like pirates and Comstar sponsored pirates for when things get slow like...

Huge redflags here. Not to channel Rand but mercenaries are a very particular (known) business model. Not that they don't do charity at all but more that they cannot be this overly (ridiculously) generous given their margins....they have a profit motive just to keep the unit running. The IBO...

I'd still rather read this (and other fanfic) than most of the drek that passes as professional mass market scifi nowadays. They have editors and and a complete (plotted out) product. You're writing essentially what is a first draft and throwing it out there. Essentially it's writing with no...

I like the Gauge angle. Given Comstar's recruiting methods it feels natural, if somewhat clumsy at times. But I think it's what they would do and how essentially a bunch of 14-15 year old orphans (running a merc company with very little adult supervision of all things) would mess things up...

Well, pretty much through the end of the beginning. The unit is established & getting jobs, and the lostech secret is on the loose. I would guess the next part would be more what happens when the shit hits the fan. The deep endgame I have no idea. Honestly, it's probably going to take...

I just want a side POV when Cranston Snord gets called on the carpet. I don't mind spies so much but something about the way the Irregulars were written always rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe because what a lot of what they were doing felt more like embezzlement rather than spying or something...