Beyond Alpha Centauri:::: Discussion Thread 5

[Sprayber]

Mr. President. I'm not a soccer fan so I'll just have to take your word for it.


Anyway, here is a little pic I found. Maybe you can use it as your primitive aliens that you want the Drones to fight.

[Mr. President]

That's an awesome picture! Thanks! I'll save it right now and do something with it later.

So Morgan will host? Perfect. I'll start working on interstellar rankings and make up some qualifying groups. I'll just assume that most nations are going to take part.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Mr. President
So Morgan will host? Perfect. I'll start working on interstellar rankings and make up some qualifying groups. I'll just assume that most nations are going to take part.

It actually makes since that the Morgans, Drones and Spartans would be involved since we are Allies. It gets shaky once you move on to powers like the Terrans and Hive. Not much good will there at the moment.

One question to ask you both. Are there any ideas what the Spartan-Drone-Morgan alliance would be called. Or would it have an official name? What are your thoughts.

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Sprayber
It actually makes since that the Morgans, Drones and Spartans would be involved since we are Allies. It gets shaky once you move on to powers like the Terrans and Hive. Not much good will there at the moment.

In the qualifiers for the last European Championships, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, and Croatia were all drawn in the same group. The final game featured the last two in Zagreb, and players became, shall we say, overexcited. Would you like me to play the cosmic joker by putting Morgan and Earth in the same qualifying group.

One question to ask you both. Are there any ideas what the Spartan-Drone-Morgan alliance would be called. Or would it have an official name? What are your thoughts.

Hmm. Good question. The "Orion Axis"? The Treaty/Pact of [PLACENAME]?

[GeneralTacticus]

Is the alliance even really a formal one? Or is it just a bunch of agreements on various things and an understanding that the three of them are allies?

[History Guy]

Mr. President-- Yep, Morgan will host it. He's not a soccer expert, but he's picked up some stuff from almost 700 years. We Morganites have one 'elite' soccer team, 'The Hawks' (originally called the Falcons, but the name was changed due to a rash of terrorist attacks by the Jade Falcons). We've got a pretty good team, and we've an Australian coach to boot...

May I suggest that the Spartans call their team 'The Hoplites'?

Where will the Orion Cup be held? Morgan Stadium in the second largest city on the Capital Planet, the city known as 'Sky Towers City', for the largest buildings around. One of the tallest buildings in existence (in 2701), the Morgan Bank HQ stands there. It's also the home to the Hot Springs Recreation Center which is, like Morgan's Hideaway, quite the tourist spot. If the Orion Cup is held in Morganland, that's where it'd probably be.

Of course, the Firaxians have to be involved, right?

Hey! The Morgans vs. Terra in sports sounds good!

For a name...The Orion Axis sounds OK to me...

[History Guy]

Tacticus-- Yes, it's official. We three support each other in just about everything, and so far the alliance is going very smoothly. Perhaps we can get some others in the alliance later...like your guys. Perhaps if the University stops being chummy with Yang we'll except them too. Up until now we've all been on good terms with the University, and we probably shall be for as long as it is...but the idea of the University and Yang as friends saddens us very much...

[Sprayber]

That's a good question to ask General.

I'm wondering if it's in the Spartan character to actully be in an official alliance or not. No doubt that one exists. Another question is what is the Morgan-Drone relationship? Sparta is close to both for different reasons, but are the Drones and Morganites as close to each other as they are to Sparta.



BTW, this may even have given the Cadre one of their reasons for orginally breaking off. Maybe they thought that the Spartans had sold out somewhat to the Morgans and Drones. Just an idea of course.

[Sprayber]

Axis Alliance
Allied Powers
Apex Alliance (used in CC)
Unity Alliance
Human Sphere Alliance (Since original alliance rose from the Bree Wars)
Outer Rim Alliance

Some ideas

[Sprayber]

Inner Sphere Alliance (yeah Mellian, I got it from Battle Tech)
Inner Sphere Powers
Sprayber's Badass Alliance sorry I couldn't resist

[History Guy]

Well, the Drones and the Morganites have gotten on better since the Kristy Adams government took over and since Pirategate. In order to get more raw materials from the Drones, the Morganites defended Drone actions, and Mrs. Rabinowitch was used to great effect in the defense of the Drones, so after that, the friendship grew.

[Kassiopeia]

Soccer? I find myself as an ice hockey fan when sports are discussed... but soccer'll do. I wonder what the Terran team could be called... of course there's a full range of sports on Earth, I think I mentioned one new one I pulled out of my hat in one of my posts.

It's Sunday, it's time to write a post. Isn't it?

History:

Suddenly, something shot out of the sky, moving at a tremendous rate of speed, shooting along with a fiery tail trailing out along behind it. It looked like a shooting star. It was headed right for Clancy, it seemed. As it came closer, the stunned Captain could make out that it was smaller than his own small vessel, yet at the pace it was moving at it would definitely be a nasty thing to bump into. Meroz managed to identify it. “Bleeding heck!” he cried, “that’s the toll-port!”

Clancy managed to emit, “Whaaa?” The toll-port, burning rapidly, scraped past the small “garbage war-ship”, still travelling at that tremendous speed, and slammed right into a ship that pulled up alongside Clancy’s. The ship had been struck right in the gun-ports. It was definitely a Pirate ship.

“That,” said Meroz, pausing for effect, “is not a good sign. I guess some Pirates shot that toll-port into, if you forgive the figure of speech, ‘warp-speed’.”

I just *had* to quote this part... I don't know, maybe just because it was the funniest thing I've read for a while. Especially the remark about 'warp speed'...

[History Guy]

Kassiopeia-- Yes! It is time to write a post...I want to see what happens to Greg, Filkins, and...Myssym. And how do Greg and Myssym know each other, I wonder...Anyway, BAC's been moving too slowly in the past couple of days. Let's get the ball rolling. Have you ever noticed how well co-ordinated this story is, that when something exciting happens, it's a lot of thing simualtenously...For example, what goes on while Callisto's being attacked...It's pretty well done.

Glad you liked that, Kassiopeia! I don't know why the idea of a toll-port being shot into 'warp speed' sounded so funny to me...

[Kassiopeia]

Kassiopeia-- Yes! It is time to write a post...I want to see what happens to Greg, Filkins, and...Myssym. And how do Greg and Myssym know each other, I wonder...Anyway, BAC's been moving too slowly in the past couple of days. Let's get the ball rolling. Have you ever noticed how well co-ordinated this story is, that when something exciting happens, it's a lot of thing simualtenously...For example, what goes on while Callisto's being attacked...It's pretty well done.

Sorry to break the news, but no post today.
But there's a rather good reason! My soundcard suddenly decided to start functioning! Whoo! I've spent the last four hours downloading everything possible, Final Fantasy themes, B5 and SW themes, the works! I've just had no time to write. But with all this scifi music around, I am certain that something will become of it.

And, yes, a tollport being shot into warp speed somehow nicely wraps together Douglas Adams and... Star Trek.

And I've noticed the co-ordination. Well, my co-ordination during the Battle of Samnos was kinda retarded, nearly non-existent, but that somehow does reflect the way things are handled at Sol...

But I have been seriously thinking on the past of our dynamic duo. I've even got their entire names figured out, but I won't divulge them, not yet.

[History Guy]

Good heavens! A guy with a soundcard that works??! Incredible!!

Hurrah for Douglas Adams!

Yep, believe it or not, there is apparent co-ordination in this story...which will gain us big marks to readers 90 years from now, who'll never know that the co-ordination was all just one big accident...

Won't divulge 'em yet? Ah, pigmy! Well...as long as Greg's last name ain't Sym or something, that's OK...Hmmm...Think of it, though...Scary, ain't it?