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BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 9 "You nobles, you sons of my chiefs, you superfine dandies, you have trusted to your birth and your possessions and have set at naught my orders to your own advancement; you have neglected the pursuit of learning and you have given yourselves over to...

ὕβρις (hybris, "insolence, sexual outrage, excessive pride, wanton violence, overbearing pride, or presumption"). Because Greek has a word for error (hamartia) but not for sin, some poets—especially Hesiod (7th century BCE) and Aeschylus (5th century BCE)—used hubris to describe wrongful action...

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 8 “Asked to write something concerning the form of fealty, I have noted briefly for you on the authority of the books the things which follow. He who swears fealty to his lord ought always to have these six things in memory; what is harmless, safe...

Mandalorians also have a bit of a fetish for giant stompy WarDroids...

There are certainly more Clanish and Warlike peoples to choose...

Let's just say that somewhere in the legends continuity there is a people who would take to Nikki's vision like fish to water. I feel like I want to give more hints here, but I don't want to give away the plot either. Let's just say that there's a plan on my part and that the Return of the...

The Kerensky brothers had been actively building up the Republicans as a tool to get to Nicholas’s vision of the Clans, but meeting Ian radically changed his plans, we will see what took place during the meeting of the minds that happened at Nikki’s knighting in a later flashback. As for...

Why do you say that?

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 7 “Any student of the rise and fall of cultures cannot fail to be impressed by the role in this historical succession by the image of the future. The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures ….In the end...

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 6 "In the year 2048, Terran explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the farthest stars. The basis...

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 5 "Usually the Fascisti enemy pushes forward large tank units in the directions of major operations. This move is preceded by the preparations of general infantry troop formations or by tank troops jointly with motorized infantry, supported by artillery...

Thank you, I have attempted to reconcile as much as I could into a harmonious context, treating the source fiction as folktales with many variants.

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 4 "Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." ~Ancient...

Escaflowne built with Sith Alchemy? Yes, something like that.

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 3 "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places." ~Ancient Terran Prophet Seventy-two hours. Seventy-two...

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 2 "Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and...

BattleDroids: Gathering Storm Chapter 1 "Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos." ~Ancient Terran Philosopher The upper galleries and grand-hall of Castel Cameron were alive with happy voices and well turned out grandees in...

Close. Very close. ;)

Crossposting from SB, not that I'm desperate for feedback and comments or anything. This is brain-bug, a series of them, that crawled in my head and just. wouldn't. shut up. What if the Journal of Hanni Schmitt was true and there were Royal Cameron Twins out there? What if BattleTech was even...