The Big One

That NOS Guy · Post by **That NOS Guy** » 2006-04-06 01:42pm

Stuart wrote:
I'll have to say not since I've never read (or seen) Starfire (I'm not even sure what it is to be honest).

It's a wargame, Weber put out a few novels for it. I figured with warp points and a character named Howard Anderson you were aiming at something. Thanks for clearing that up.

edit: fixing quote tags

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-04-06 01:56pm

Intresting. And while I agree that it would be boring to read about, its rather nice that hear there was a solidbackground to that scene.

Another question: I assume there will be an adversary in this story, unless this is going to end up as a story just to set up another story. If there is such an adversary, can I guess that the Nutkins are somehow involved in it?

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2006-04-06 06:18pm

That NOS Guy wrote:It's a wargame, Weber put out a few novels for it. I figured with warp points and a character named Howard Anderson you were aiming at something. Thanks for clearing that up.

David Weber and Steve White, not just Weber. Starfire started as a tabletop space-exploration/colonization/warfare game, and also has a tactical combat version. When they went to their third edition, they hired Weber, already a high-profile space-navy warfare/military sci-fi author to help design it. He was given carte blanche and near-total control of the Starfire universe setting, and the story about what happened when the game was sold to another company is a story in it's own right. Weber and Steve White wrote four novels entitled Crusade, In Death Ground, The Shiva Option, and Insurrection, that cover the later story of the Starfire universe. The books have since been rereleased as a pair of omnibus editions called The Stars At War I and II.

I'm not familiar with the game beyond the homepage and the background story material, but I've heard it said here on SD.net that you have to be an accountant to be able to keep track of the details in the current (fifth) ediiton.

The books are great stuff though. I highly recommend them.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2006-04-14 12:15pm

Some more parts are up.

We have Interstellar Highway 23

and

Sceptered Isle - 2

Enjoy.

By the way, I don't know if you've followed these but there are a whole clutch of factfiles that fill in background data such as aircraft types, various histories, a brief international directory etc. The most recet are those that deal with the post Big One history of the RAF.

This starts with RAF History one and goes on through

RAF-Two

and

RAF - 3

and

RAF-4

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2006-04-14 03:56pm

I simply bookmarked at your TBOverse Story index and TBO History etc. index pages and check them once per day.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-04-14 09:06pm

Spoilers for the events of the 2040s below, ROT13'ed for your protection ...

Gur ovbjne bhgoernx va gur 2040f jvyy svefg pbafvfg bs "frevbhfyl raunaprq vasyhramn ivehf znqr erfvfgnag gb nyy xabja inppvarf naq jvgu vgf yrguny punenpgrevfgvpf hccrq." Nqqvgvba nggnpxf vapyhqr "na nve-genafzvggrq sbez bs enovrf, n vasyhramn/G-5 gevpbgurprar uloevq, na vasyhramr/qvcurevn uloevq naq n fznyycbk/robyn uloevq, nyy jvgu rkgerzr erfvfgnapr gb gerngzrag oerq vagb gurz."

Naq, nf n svany abgr, "nyy gur ovbybtvpny jrncbaf qrfpevorq npghnyyl rkvfg be ner gur fhowrpg bs erfrnepu."

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2006-04-14 09:46pm

phongn wrote:Spoilers for the events of the 2040s below, ROT13'ed for your protection ...

Gur ovbjne bhgoernx va gur 2040f jvyy svefg pbafvfg bs "frevbhfyl raunaprq vasyhramn ivehf znqr erfvfgnag gb nyy xabja inppvarf naq jvgu vgf yrguny punenpgrevfgvpf hccrq." Nqqvgvba nggnpxf vapyhqr "na nve-genafzvggrq sbez bs enovrf, n vasyhramn/G-5 gevpbgurprar uloevq, na vasyhramr/qvcurevn uloevq naq n fznyycbk/robyn uloevq, nyy jvgu rkgerzr erfvfgnapr gb gerngzrag oerq vagb gurz."

Naq, nf n svany abgr, "nyy gur ovbybtvpny jrncbaf qrfpevorq npghnyyl rkvfg be ner gur fhowrpg bs erfrnepu."

Great, like I don't have enough trouble sleeping as it is.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-04-20 09:06pm

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2006-04-20 09:09pm

:: swoon ::

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-04-21 02:29am

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-04-21 09:50am

Shouldn't that be "Clipper Invincible"

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2006-04-21 12:26pm

The next part of IH is out.

HERE

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-05-02 05:36pm

IH 25!

Get it here!

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-05-03 02:25am

I'm enjoying the Nutkin-Human cooperation.

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2006-05-03 11:00pm

Here's #26

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2006-05-05 06:45pm

I think I'm missing something here. Cryo-napalm? I'll take Stuart's word for it, but how the heck does the "cryo" part fit in with "fire", "napalm," and "ash"?

At first I thought that they were going to "freeze" the forests rather than incinerate them, which is pretty stupid in retrospect, but I don't see how it works.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2006-05-06 01:12am

technomage wrote:I think I'm missing something here. Cryo-napalm? I'll take Stuart's word for it, but how the heck does the "cryo" part fit in with "fire", "napalm," and "ash"?

At first I thought that they were going to "freeze" the forests rather than incinerate them, which is pretty stupid in retrospect, but I don't see how it works.

Cryo-napalm is liquid at low temperatures.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-05-07 10:41pm

Damn the Democrats!

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2006-05-08 06:31pm

And so we learn the reason for the Senior Chief's hatred of the Democrat Party.

Problem is, they were called the Republican Party in Jefferson's time. They started off as the Anti-Federalists, renamed themselves the Republican Party, then broke into the Democratic-Republicans and the National Republicans in 1824, and the former eventually became the modern Democrats, while the latter eventually merged with the Whigs. The Chief should have been saying "Damn the Republicans!" back then.