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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...

Well some consumables will no doubt be itemized as 'fell off the back of a truck';-). But others like fresh food (local produce) to toilet paper (and a host of other things like entertainment beyond 'game room' equipment) are probably not something Vicky is fabricating. The main reason she'd...

She desperately needs a lawyer to do her contracts and likely an accountant as well to handle payroll and other payables/expenses;-)