Sparta Command HQ

[Skanky Burns]

Sir yes sir! Life valuable, SIR!
/me heads over to the barracks, returns a short while later

Sir, uniform too small, sir. Muscles not fit in, sir!

[Jamski]

Private Burns!

You are to train naked untill a uniform is found to fit you! First exercise today shall be crawling under BARBED WIRE! Take DBTS with you and show him a clean pair of heels!

I will be GRADING this exercise to submit for future Elections for PROMOTION to COMMANDING RANKS !

So... Colonel... what do you think of this lot? Can we make soliders out of them?

/me puts on very cool sunglasses and smokes a cigar *

-Jam

[Maniac]

I certainly hope for you Corporal.
If you succeed, promotion to Lieutenant.
If you fail, the Brood Pit...

[Maniac]

Brothers in arms, do not forget to vote here and here.

[Skanky Burns]

Sir, permission to continue wearing Spartan Marine Lance Corporal uniform, sir!

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Maniac

If you fail, the Brood Pit...

What? You are going to deliver them to Gaians for hmm, punishment ? Don`t you have punishment spheres

[Jamski]

Granted, so long as you can find one that fits, soldier.

/me chews the cigar instead of smoking it *

-Jam

[Maniac]

Originally posted by obstructor


What? You are going to deliver them to Gaians for hmm, punishment ? Don`t you have punishment spheres

No, those brood pits are located in Gaian bases we just conquered.

[Skanky Burns]

Sir, had one custom made after promotion, sir!

/me picks up DBTS and marches towards the barbed wire training area. Fortunately he remembers to put DBTS down before he starts crawling under and over the wires.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Maniac


No, those brood pits are located in Gaian bases we just conquered.

As we approached we were confronted by the ruined splendor of
Sparta Command. The true immensity of the place became instantly
apparent as our Quantum Tank crunched over the rubble and parked next
to a shattered bunker, but the extent of the destruction
took weeks to assess. The shielded datacore had sustained several
massive breaches and smoke still billowed from the numerous cannon
ports. There were few signs of human life.
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "Our Secret War"

The klaxon began to wail, but we felt the reassuring tingle of
the Tachyon Field crackling to life around us, encasing the
entire base in its impenetrable glow.
^
^ -- Spartan Kel,
^ "The Fall of Sparta"

[Jamski]

Just for clairfication... are we modelling a society like in Robert Heinlein's Starship Trooper, in which almost all young men and women sign up for millitary service when leaving school, at then of which, if they survive, they are allowed full citizenship, and are entitled to vote/run for government etc.

Or are we more Fascist, with mass conscription, and harsh (possibly racist) politics, combined with a millitary "Junka" government and/or dictatorship (like 19th century Prussia)

Or perhaps something like classical Sparta in Greece - a warrior nobility and a pre-feudal/warlord/democracy hybrid system. You can vote, as long as you're not a slave or woman and as long as you own land and lead troops.

Or perhaps a completely feudal Shogun/Samurai/Holy Roman Empire model, with the Marshall being elected from the ranks of the Colonels and Generals (us the team members)

Ideas?

At any rate we have nice black uniforms and high boots.

And sunglasses, and peaked leather caps SS style/shaved heads

-Jam

[Maniac]

Lies! All lies obstructor!

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Maniac
Lies! All lies obstructor!

....said Spartan Colonel Maniac (as you can see him in the post above), after being asked why are Gaian hovertanks cruising through Spartan bases. T

[Jamski]

Green uniform, soft hat, glasses.

Therefore not a Spartan officer.

-Jam

[Illuminatus]

He is an officer and he put his picture voluntarily