Ok been slacking a little bit on my end here, been meaning to put this up since tuesday so here it is..
Tin Mage is the WST this week so you'll want to bring your 50's with their alpha's unlocked at least and I'm thinking we can try to run this Saturday afternoon/evening.
Please post in the thread here or contact me in game if your interested in joining the task force, we'll need a full 8 to start it up.
Editefault start time will be the usual 7MNT/9EST but can be earlier if we get folks who can't run later but want to run it.
Interested parties thus far (Will update as people speak up):
Myself
Bob
DarkSeraph
Star Ranger
OpMegs

Just noticed that the board's still on standard time...

(Although the fact that it took this long to notice shows how much we care, right?)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

So I was thinking about mythology and fantasy, and how mortal humans are said to be able to do things even gods can't, and I wondered, why should that be so? I et a biscuit and pondered, and the thought that came to was - even immortal beings can, according to the mythology, still be killed, if usually in overly complicated ways. That means death can touch them, even if they don't 'naturally' have a death... animals die, plants die, stars die, ideas die... mortals carry around a little bit of death, their own, hence the name, and so mortals can affect anything that can in any way die.

I concluded this was a load of cobblers, and et another bickie.

But it sounds good, what?

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Yamato, Macross Director Noboru Ishiguro Passes Away







Director of 1st color Astro Boy, Orguss, Megazone 23, Galactic Heroes was 73

Studio Nue co-founder Haruka Takachiho reported on Wednesday that Noboru Ishiguro, the veteran director of such works as Space Battleship Yamato, the first color Astro Boy anime series
(1980), The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes, has passed away. He was 73.

Ishiguro directed some of the most highly regarded anime classics of the
last five decades, including those listed above as well as Megazone 23, The Super Dimension Century Orguss, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? film, and Yokai Ningen Bem. Ishiguro also conceived of Megazone 23's story and founded Artland in 1978, the studio that co-produced Macross, Orguss and Galactic
Heroes, and animated more recent titles such as Mushi-Shi, Demon King Daimao, and Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Most recently, Ishiguro directed the 2008-2009 television anime series Tytania, which was based on a series of novels by Galactic Heroes author Yoshiki Tanaka, and Pattenrai!! - Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari, a 2009 film based on the life of Yoichi Hatta, the Japanese engineer that helped modernize Taiwan when it was a colony of Japan.

Ishiguro was scheduled
to attend North Carolina's Animazement convention on May 25-27. He
attended past U.S. conventions such as several Anime Expo events, Anime
Weekend Atlanta in 2007, and Otakon in 2009.

http://holistic.xkcd.com/

"Type a web address and you'll be taken to one typed by someone else."

Somebody's going to end up seeing the front page of the FenWiki... What sites are you loading into the redirect buffer?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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In late 2017 Whistler surprised Fenspace when they requested landing permission for ''Eagle One'' and ''Eagle Two'' at Moonbase Alpha, showing of their latest product to a not completely surprised public (they had called the press to Moonbase Alpha for a bigger story). Handing over the two Eagles to the public of Moonbase Alpha, they announced that they would produce these craft for everyone who would want one or two of them.
Developed completely in secret the Eagle was the answer to a problem that plagued Fenspace since the end of the Boskone War. The lack of an standartized intermediate sized space craft, as most vessels build during the War were either fighters or large scale craft. While Whistler and others offered container craft some people wished for something more ruggerized than a container.
Remembering ''Space: 1999'' it was quickly decided that the Eagle would be perfect for this job, especially since if could be outfitted with custom pods, which could be build from ISO containers. This in turn allowed the Eagle to be used as small scale transport using normal containers.
Whistler also decided to try and mass produce the Eagle by using as much hard tech as possible and only waving the essentials. As such the Eagle class has only a low number of quirks and can be serviced without any handwavium handy.
==Class Quirks:==
*''Every landing you can walk away from:'' From time to time an Eagle will have a crashlanding, but in 99% of these crashlanding the only thing hurt will be the pride of the pilots and the Eagle can launch again after resetting the engine controls.
==Trivia:==
*''Eagle One'' of Moonbase Alpha has the worst history of crashlandings of all Eagles. It crashes about every two weeks and the crew has painted an image of Launchpad McQuack on the cockpit.
{{Space Ships}}

At the moment, I have only one.

The game already has (and is infamous for) the Unnatural Axe, but how about Random Axe of Cruelty? Each time you make an attack with it, you have to roll an additional 1d3 to see where it's alignment falls on the good-neutral-evil spectrum, and it has +2 to hit and damage per step away the target is, but also does 1/2 its bonus in subdual damage to the user if they are off from its current alignment. . It always has an additional +1 vs Law, and will damage Lawful users 1 extra hp as well. Against magical defenses or damage reduction it always works like a +2 weapon.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Hello
Over in "Other peoples fiction" in a thread
http://drunkardswalkforum...Non-serviam-A-plot-bunny
I mention the "Iron Law of Bureaucracy" and use a rant based around the "iron Law" because it takes the fanfic idea in a direction most people familiar with the movie aren't looking.
Here is a Link(Thanks  Necratoid)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

It was science fiction movie with an implied rant about mob rule or that humanity couldn't make good decision and added a rant with the opposite view using Bureaucratic examples from personal experience and the real world to show the direction a fanfic writer could take it.
That led to a reply with Unions being mentioned in less than 5 post so I thought I'd create a thread here.
Cattynebulart mentioned citation and that sounds like it would be fun both for and against Bureaucracy.
Cattynebulart mentioned the Roman Bureaucracy lasting for 1000's of years

I'll mention China if I'm not mistaken they had a Bureaucracy that beat the Romans in lifespan and ability.
Necratoid mentioned unions and a current Law
Robkelk pointed out some things about the tendency to make it the unions fault.
Edit
Just saw CattyNebularts 2:15 post and he wanted citation of my 50 year rant statement not the "Iron Law". I was treating the 50 years as a exaggeration, but I think I can scare up a few examples that argue for a 50 year life cycle more or less at least as a modern state of affairs for modern computer driven Bureaucracies.
Also does anyone else have the occasional problem of yuku sometimes losing all formatting information and putting up a wall of text, thought I had that solved, but my recent surge of post has had it happen a couple of times..
hmelton

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... -new-anime]There's a new HoiHoi-san anime coming...

No word on whether the previous cast will be re-assembled, but if I recall correctly most of the original voice actors are still working... although Rie Tanaka (Combat-san) might be too busy to return.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I just watched this (okay not exactly that serious) video about the Finnish school model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOfZL_J5fo
Now I'm wondering what system of schooling is implemented in Fenspace?