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  1. Yellowhammer

    Breaking News Robert F Kennedy Jr. is considering a 2024 POTUS Run To Challenge Biden

    The problem with this analysis is that from Joe's perspective, he has to win to prevent being thrown in jail (if not him, then certainly Hunter Biden) for corruption and money laundering charges. He can't shuffle gracefully off to retirement in Delaware. The other problem with this is the Dems...
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    That's the current word from Twitter and specifically the IDF spokesman. The border is secured, sweeps have been done for terrorists in the areas hit near Gaza, and engineers are land-mining the breaches that had been blown in the border fence. There's been some clashes/activity in the West...
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    Battletech Clover Spear - The War of 3056 (Battletech AU)

    Well, it's what Victor drives, and since CS Victor is medically downchecked from piloting, he's handing it down to his girl rather than have Prometheus gather dust in the Mechbay. (as a side note, this is the configuration for Sam's ride:) Prometheus: The preferred configuration of...
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    Battletech Clover Spear - The War of 3056 (Battletech AU)

    A. N. -- As I promised Curtis, a bit of a transition piece/epilogue. Quinceañera St. George's Chapel, Davion Palace, Avalon City, New Avalon April 23rd, 3073 "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    You assume that would be allowed both by the memorandum of understanding that allow ComStar to operate in the DC and CC (and the other states), that one or more rulers wouldn't use this as an excuse to move against ComStar for interfering in their domestic affairs (which in arguably IS from that...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    To piggyback on this, from what I read IRL North Korea's domestically produced TVs and radios* require a soldering iron and some practical knowledge of electronic design/electrical engineering to pick up anything BUT the official state media channels (like say South Korean radio and TV one...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Actually she was still in the Tharkad system boosting outbound to the jump point. So this was no different than someone on the International Space Station speaking to ground control (she was using basically Zoom/TikTok from someplace around Earth lunar to Mars orbit distances, and lunar was...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    If you like Space mentions in Battletech, I can also recommend Heir to the Bruce Quest on Spacebattles. The quest protagonist winds up as an ASF pilot, so there's a LOT of space action there. (Although as Speaker said, LAMs are very niche there too).
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    Battletech Clover Spear - The War of 3056 (Battletech AU)

    Superb chapter, Curtis, simply superb. Omi definitely shows her skills in espionage here. (As I've joked, Omiko Steiner-Davion is polite, demure, modest, a perfect Japanese wife in public. Also it's an article of faith in the FedCom Military that Victor needed that Daishi Assault 'Mech to cart...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Yeah, for example, Weber knows at 'some point' some faction called 'The Clans' invade the Inner Sphere from outside and wreak havoc. He doesn't know when, where, or who they are past that. One reason that he's keeping mum about being a SI to Julia is that he has zero info that can be verified...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Guys, this is getting to be a bit of a derail, the more so since the Successor States already have known that ComStar has it's own agenda that is not the same as theirs. See what happened at the start of the Second Succession War. (Plus Comstar has done the Steiners and Kuritas dirty in canon)...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Also half the fun for this was writing how ROM looks at the new Thud and jumps to the totally incorrect conclusion (that it was going to have Artemis) using flawed logic.
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    **Shrugs** Call it what you will, it's the materials used for 'Mech construction. Thank you, thank you. Thanks, Speaker knows about it and will threadmark after he reads. Hey, that's how the Lyran nobility rolls. And julia is part and parcel of them. Good catch, fixed it!
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle
    Threadmarks: A Proper Reward for Services Rendered VII (Tharkad Retrospective)

    Author’s Note: This is some ‘behind the scenes backfill’ about things going on that will eventually be shown in the main storyline. They take place after Alistair has become a Duke but before he makes his escape from the frozen viper pit of Tharkad politics. A Matter of Proper Reward for...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Fedcom Alliance hasn;t happened yet, my man. Not for six more years IOTL.
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Also the SW-era Flashman is 4/6, NOT 5/8. They had to downtech by dropping the 375XL for a 300 SFE (and also it has heating issues with only 23 SHS for all the lasers). It's solid, yes, but the Lyrans have plenty of other solid 4/6 designs in production to compete in that role (Battlemaster...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    It should be pointed out that the Stingray is produced in the FWL. Which is a very hot shooting war with the Lyrans right now....
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Yeah, also Eisensturm-level armor (granted the Eis has the firepower edge, but then 95 ton Level 2 optimized death machine built around twin Gauss rifles/Large lasers). I'd match it up against some Clanner Omnifighter designs as a cointoss. 28 damage on demand is no joke in Level 1 meta. Sadly...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Yeah, it's a nasty NASTY beast now. The only way to overheat it is with full front and aft alphas or engine crits, and it's got the most armor of anything not named Eisensturm or Hyaspedes. You could possibly even dropper chop with it (it's got more armor than a Stuka or Slayer and comparable...
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    Battletech Welcome to the Jungle

    Well, to be fair, the Steiners will probably bind Catachan to them dynastically via the mechanism of the next Duke/Duchess of Catachan being <Insert Kid Name> Weber-Steiner. That said, I'd expect that Julia might stipulate that her 5% voting share of CAC stock goes to the Archon or the like in...
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