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In the Warrior Trilogy, during the wedding arc, she did have on-page fantasies about seducing Justin Xiang during their time on Terra. Of course, that may just have been a manifestation of extreme sibling rivalry: Justin was romancing Candace at the time, and Romano might've only wanted to...

Uh... without wanting to interrupt a perfectly good diatribe, for a good chunk of Paul Verhoven's childhood his home country, the Netherlands, was under Nazi occupation. He got a pretty good first-hand view of fascism, mostly from under the sole of a jackboot. Other than that, I think it might...

I fear you missed the timeframe and certain details of the recent update(s). At the moment, Ian Davion is the First Prince, with Hanse as his heir and advisor, and Ian has just demonstrated all the wiles and diplomatic finesse of a Demolisher. Besides, Wolf's Dragoons already initiated contact...

The mirror thread over on SpaceBattles is, uh, protesting the EA's rapid development of improved FTL, over pages and pages, and LC has made a clarifying statement: And TBF, it's his story, it's his narrative choice to make, and so I defer to his judgement.

Actually, the former is correct in this timeframe (3007): they arrived at New Delos in 3005 and presented themselves to the AFFS as "Wolf's Dragoons". The name "The Wolf Dragoons" was carefully not mentioned until they revealed their true origins at the Outreach Conference in 3051 during the...

Matryoshka was my signature piece, though in all honesty I functionally abandoned it years ago and am reworking the whole concept (hence Valhalla Can Wait and the series it's meant to start). FWIW, with the XanderZone gone Greywizard seems to have made Twisting the Hellmouth his 'new' home for...

Be aware that The Sietch now has a new Buffy fanfic-in-progress: Urban Fantasy - Valhalla Can Wait [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, original-character-centric] I honestly don't know if this is the kind of place where a Buffy fanfic is going to flourish, especially one based around OCs (though the...

95 Vigor-Brown Street (Zyrianov residence) Napier, New Zealand 15:41, Friday, 18 March, 1994 Taz stalked down the driveway, her mouth a hard line. Even Miss Geoghan’s impromptu pizza party (she and Steve had split a large meatlover’s) and Misha’s quick thinking to solve the problem of...

Enlisted Mess, Price Barracks Ladyville, Belize 07:31, Thursday, 17 March, 1994 Belize Time [13:31, Thursday, 17 March, 1994 Zulu Time (GMT)/02:31, Friday, 18 March, 1994, NZ Time] Hundreds of men were taking their breakfast, as they did every morning, and with DPM camouflage so favoured by...

Everyone knows the canonical life-story of Buffy Summers, the Sunnydale Slayer; it's an epic tale of heroism, tragic romance, mental trauma, and survival despite often-impossible odds. But everyone is the hero of their own life-story. Whether it's an epic, a tragedy, or a grim warning tale with...

A convoy system is complicated, expensive, and commercially speaking, majorly inefficient (and thus, again, expensive, in that it bites deeply into profitability). You only go to the trouble of creating one if your merchant shipping is being subjected to large-scale commerce-raiding (as in...

Good engineering is always an iterative process of building on previous successes.

Personally, I think the STEN gets a bad rap. Yes, it could slam-fire if dropped, but that was a known possibility and accounted for in the manual-of-arms; yes, the magazine design was questionable (double-column single-feed, really?); yes, the early models could have ‘quirks’, especially of...

Indeed. Like any form of adventure, it looks and sounds exciting and novel, and even a little amusing... to an outside observer. The poor bloke stuck in the mud and the blood? Probably won’t be laughing about it, at least not before it’s all over — assuming he survives.

AIUI, there were certainly design issues with the L85, but the whole saga was really a multi-layered crap-sundae, and the hot-fudge topping that really made it what it was? The workforce had already been told that the factory was going to be closed once the production-run finished, and every...

My personal preference is for the Steyr AUG; I’ve always felt that it was a solid choice for our troops and gave them a distinctive flair. Certainly, the NZ Army would still have some Vietnam-era personnel in uniform by this point, and they would well remember the, erm, mixed reputation the M16...

Uh, Doomsought? As Tiamat notes at the opening of the piece, you should believe it — Wolfgang the Bratty Man was a real person, sadly deceased in the last half-decade IIRC, and a not-so-minor legend amongst most of the Tommies of BAOR. He did routinely bribe vehicle crews to learn where and...

More Skyhawks for the RNZAF? Yes, please! EDIT: much as the F-18L would be a more capable aircraft, it comes back down to budgets, logistics, and commonality: our existing training and support systems were all oriented towards the Scooter (first purchased 1969), and IOTL the Project Kahu...

Perhaps, but iterating on existing systems-in-service allows them to leverage the established support apparatus while addressing noted capability shortfalls (the Hellblazer in particular — the US Army was sucking wind for a decent SP-SHORAD in this period). Remember, “perfect is the enemy of...

I forget if it was /tg/ or a Pinterest post, but I saw someone make a similar argument about a laser-pistol built in revolver fashion. Another poster quickly proposed a counter-argument. If an energy-weapon’s barrel/firing-cylinder is governed by a capacitor or other technobabble device, and...