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- Pyeknu - 07-29-2012 Ah, wakata. Anyhow, on with the Concordance for Part 2. It took me about six hours to write what I did so far, so let's see now . . . ^_^;; - Pyeknu - 07-30-2012 And now, the second part of the Concordance. Fred **** **** **** PART TWO Haoryu The spiritual dragons that inhabit the souls of people such as Koro Sonami, Tsukasa Torusuke and Mago Tsueko – not to mention Morokuzu Ryoko, Koeru Kumomi and Sebone Mimoko – have been called both "haoryu" (literally "conquering dragon") or "shoryu" ("dragon lord") throughout Ikkitosen. Such beings – when they seize control of their hosts – unleash unspeakable destruction on all those around them. In the PFTA universe, when the toshi became Avalonians, people such as Sonami, Torusuke and Tsueko managed to make peace with their dragons, thus allowing them to live more peaceful lives under their full control. Of course, with the presence of a potential phoenix in Moroboshi Hiromi in their midst, the yin-and-yang balance between the dragon and the phoenix is created, thus further ensuring the "fate of the sacred beads" was denied. "Is he a good fighter? I wanna fight him!" A perfect example of what the star of Ikkitosen is like: Laid back and mellow . . . but willing to fight anyone that crosses her path at the drop of a hat! Mesonium ("Meson") An element I created originally for The Senior Year as a powerful energy source, this is – to borrow a quote from my Harry Potter fanfic The Icemaidens and the Philosopher's Stone – "the atom of the mind and soul (and thus, of magic)." It was said to be created by the Seekers (the race of omnipotents I first mentioned in Wanderers), has an atomic number of 181 and is given the chemical symbol "Ms" by Terran scientists. To differentiate it from the subatomic particle composed of one quark and one anti-quark, "-ium" was added to mark the atomic meson an actual element. It comes in three basic forms (listed according to increasing density): Diamond meson, ruby meson and ebony meson. Exposure to ebony meson directly – unless someone has a strong psionic shield or is very well-disciplined – can drive any sentient insane. H.M.C.S. Bonaventure A Majestic-class light carrier originally ordered as H.M.S. Powerful near the end of World War Two, Bonaventure (pendant CVL-22) was Canada's last aircraft carrier both in real-life and the PFTA universe; she served from 1957-70. She is named after Île Bonaventure, an island serving as a bird sanctuary which is located off the southern coast of Québec's Gaspé Peninsula near the town of Percé in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The official name of the park is Île Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park. H.M.S./H.M.C.S. Eagle H.M.S. Eagle was an Audacious-class fleet carrier ordered for World War Two service, but later suspended after the end of hostilities, then completed in 1951. She served in the Royal Navy until her decommissioning in 1972; she was scrapped six years later. In Doug's universe, H.M.S. Eagle was purchased by Canada to replace the Bonaventure. This was inspired by the storyline "Canadian Power: The Canadian Forces as a Major Power" by the alternate history writer TheMann at the Alternate History website. Seaborne amphibious assault carriers Bonaventure and Magnificent These would be Wasp-class landing helicopter docks (hull classification code LHD) built by the Avalonians to give the Canadians area air control and a battalion battle group landing capability when needed. N.C.S.M. Bonaventure (pendant LHD-23) would be based in Halifax. In respect to her namesake island, the new "Bonnie" would be crewed by French-speakers (thus making this ship a French Language Unit or FLU). H.M.C.S. Magnificent (LHD-24) would be based in Esquimalt. The second ship of this particular type is named after Canada's second post-World War Two aircraft carrier, H.M.C.S. Magnificent (CVL-21), which served from 1946-56 before being replaced by the Bonaventure, then returned to Great Britain and scrapped in 1965. It would be really weird to see a full colonel in Air Force blue actually commanding a Navy ship! Given that the Canadian Forces had one uniform (known as "CF greens") from 1968-88, when it came time to introduce the Distinctive Environmental Uniforms (DEUs), deciding who would get what type of uniform caused some people a bit of a headache. It was eventually decided that "hard core" Air Force (like a pilot), Army (like an infantry soldier) and Navy (like a boatswain) trades would get to wear the corresponding DEU. Thus, if the Royal Canadian Navy followed United States Navy practice and placed a qualified pilot as commander of the new Bonaventure or Magnificent – much less Haida – he would be a colonel in rank and wear the Royal Canadian Air Force blue uniform in lieu of being called a navy captain and wear Royal Canadian Navy black. The Royal Canadian Corps of Air Cavalry Short-formed as RCCAC, this is my creation; this formation never existed in real life. This is the corps that Major Raeburn (see below) belonged to. And while air cavalry pilots train in the same type of syllabus as normal Air Force pilots do, they wear Army green as they are assigned to regiments and brigades, not squadrons and wings. An Agent Kay (who looked a LOT like Tommy Lee Jones) and an Agent Jay (who could be Will Smith's twin brother) A nod to the Men In Black movies, of course. Coxswain Short-formed as Cox'n, this was the traditional title of a man in charge of a boat when it came to navigation and steering. In the Royal Navy, the coxswain was normally the rating in charge of a captain's or admiral's barge. This evolved into the position of the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a corvette or submarine when those type of ships began to appear in the Royal Navy (in larger vessels, a coxswain's duties were normally split between the chief boatswain's mate and the master-at-arms). This was transmitted over to the Royal Canadian Navy, but the position of coxswain was set as the senior non-commissioned member of any Navy ship or shore establishment. In the United States Navy, this position is called the Command Master Chief Petty Officer. I call him "Chief" in return Never, EVER call a chief petty officer "Sir!" They work for a living! Ipraedies This was the original "bad guys" from The Senior Year. Mike Smith created them. An estimated FIVE HUNDRED people from all over Earth were taken to Ipraedos A nod to the TSY story "The Return of Kosei Ryoki." Ryoki Kosei was Sakura's old high school classmate who later became the homeroom teacher for Lum's class at Tomobiki High. He slings hyperspace mallets like Makimura Kaori from Cityhunter (his largest one is a monster device called the "Saturn Five") did, was hopelessly in love with Oyuki (he always fell apart whenever she did anything with him) and was VERY sensitive to loud noises thanks to a particular torture the Ipraedies used on him. She had finished her trades training at the Canadian Forces School of Administration and Logistics in Borden north of Toronto (plus naval environmental training at the Canadian Forces Fleet School in Halifax) at the end of April. Basic steward training at CFSAL Borden is twelve weeks (60 training days) in length. The Naval Environmental Training Course held at CFFS Halifax runs for five weeks (20 training days). With a start date of Monday 3 January 2011, Seina returned to Haida on 29 April 2011, a little over a week before the start of this story. And while her girlfriend, Matsu'ura Ai, would be herself heading back to the Fleet School in Esquimalt to continue her basic training as a hull technician first thing in the morning, repeating same every Monday morning (being gone each week until Friday evening) until near the end of June this year . . . Canada has three Fleet Schools for naval trades training: CFFS Halifax (Nova Scotia) and CFFS Esquimalt (British Columbia) for regular Navy servicemen . . . and ENFC Québec (Québec) for the naval reservists. For a hull technician, basic trades training runs twenty weeks (100 training days) according to the Canadian Forces recruiting website. Tack on naval environmental training, Ai will return to Haida on 24 June 2011. Resource management support clerk Known in short-hand as RMS Clk. This is a recent new trade in the Canadian Armed Forces. It came together in the 1990s with the amalgamation of the trades of administration clerk (Adm Clk) and finance clerk (Fin Clk). I was an administration clerk during my years of service in the military from 1985-91. These people are responsible for all personnel administration and financial services in the Canadian military. H.M.C.S. Onondaga Like the new Bonaventure and Magnificent indicated above, this is a new ship built by the Avalonians, based on the DDH-280 TRUMP updated design for an area air warfare destroyer, but with very advanced sensory and full environmental safeguards. Given the pendant number DDH-288, Onondaga is the second ship in the Navy to bear the name; the original was an Oberon-class diesel attack submarine that served in the RCN and MARCOM from 1967-2000. She is currently a museum in Rimouski in Québec. 32 Maritime Utility Squadron Given the Navy short-hand code VU-32, this was originally a Royal Canadian Navy shore-based utility support squadron formed in 1952 at Shearwater, serving in the RCN and later Air Command until disbanded in 1992, its role taken over by 434 Squadron (the Bluenosers). Thanks to the Avalonians, VU-32 was reformed as a maritime utility squadron tasked with everything from naval gunnery target towing, search and rescue, carrier on-board delivery and training assistance missions. VU-32 was never given a nickname in active service, but the Avalonians now helping crew the squadron came up with the nickname "Precious Links" from the squadron's badge (two chain links, one silver and one gold, interlinked and hanging in the air over the water). Shades of the Force! I thought when I heard that I actually based the concept of the Te'a on the concept of a'Tha (literally, "The Other") that Diane Duane introduced in her Star Trek novel Spock's World. Over time, the Te'a concept was expanded to include some elements of the Force from Star Wars. "Right . . .!" I drawled in my best Nipsey Russell imitation. The late Mr. Russell played the role of Principal Ben Edwards in the Goldie Hawn 1986 film Wildcats, which was also the film where Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson made their debuts. Whenever he said "Right," he always drawled it. I always loved that. "She IS Wile E. Coyote!" Doug is referring to the times when Wile E. Coyote squared off against Bugs Bunny in films like Rabbit's Feat (1960), directed by Chuck Jones. Infinity Whenever I made use of the Yizibajohei in my writings, this particular character often shows up. A reality-warper with unlimited powers, I based this one on Captain Everything from Jim Valentio's 1980s comic parody series normalman. While not as totally idiotic as the Captain, Infinity is a very laid-back and relatively harmless person until you piss him/her off (like most Yizibajohei, Infinity switches genders per incarnation). In many parts of The Doctor Is In when I crossed in other series, I used Kasuga Ayumu, a.k.a. Osaka, of Azumanga Daio to play the role of Infinity. She Who Speaks to Dragons This is a character I based on the Koihime Muso version of Ryofu Hosen (real name: Ren). Her actual name in Noukiite is Seu-P'ye Yesu-Re Hechnich'-K'ekhech, which – once you make use of the Korean-Noukiite character encoding system I demonstrated in the notes for Part One – becomes the Korean reading of the Chinese characters ????, read in Korean as "Ryop'o Pongson." Her childhood name is Kyech (derived from the same encoding system for the character ?, read "Yon" in Korean). In PFTA, it was noted that Kyech and Moroboshi Ataru were intimate lovers for a period of six weeks. Vladímir Rusalovic Tayceško (Lord Rjazán') A Praetorian Guardian – in effect, a normal human being that was allowed to take a special "test" which gave him the power to perceive Reality in all its aspects without going insane, plus given the power to deal with potential threats to Earth from beyond the dimensional veils – whom I first introduced in Wanderers (though I never used the proper Scientific Romanisation of his name at that time since I didn't know better). Major Deannette Antonia (Dean) Raeburn I've often mentioned Dean in my works over the years, but never began using her directly until quite recently. She is Earth's Seeker Jewel Warrior, a Victorian-era débutante who was orphaned thanks to a greedy relative and forced to live in the Canadian West during the hectic years after the second Northwest Rebellion of 1885 to make a life for herself. Jewel Warriors were also introduced in Wanderers. The way Doug sees her as he researches her in Haida's computer room is pretty much the same way I envision her: Not a real "superhero" in the North American sense, but a soldier who was given an extra powerful gift that helped her do her duty for King and Country. Physical Education and Recreation Officers and Instructors The Canadian Forces' in-house physical training staff, descent from the pre-1968 physical training instructors of the separate services. Officers in the Branch were known in short-hand as PEROs and instructors were called PERIs. One had to be a corporal/leading seaman, having graduated from Level 5 training in one's old trade, before being allowed to "remuster" (switch occupations) to become a PERI. These trades were part of the Administration Branch until they were made into their own branch in 1980 (even though their home school, the Canadian Forces School of Physical Education and Recreation [CFSPER in Borden, was established in 1968). The branch was disbanded in 1997 due to budget constraints . . . though why the heck the Canadian Forces then out-sourced physical education training to a civilian agency, I'll never understand. "She'll be preparing for another day of classes at Plymouth right now, no doubt." Plymouth School in Welland was one of the schools my late mother, Eleanor Kushnir, taught at during the 1980s. It was one of her favourite places of work. It is located off Lincoln Street on the "island" formed by the old and present Welland Canals in the centre of the city itself, about one kilometre from downtown. "Unless they're Canadian and wear Army green as their normal head dress type." I once heard a rumour that when the American Green Berets were first formed in the 1960s by President John F. Kennedy, they actually went up to Canada to purchase green berets from the Canadian Army so they could have a unique head dress of their own. Whether or not such a rumour is true, I simply can't say. "Leave it to the Rangers, you mean." While the Rangers and the Special Forces fall under the control of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCCOM), their duties are quite different. Members of the 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) are employed as rapid response light infantry forces that could be deployed worldwide anywhere within 18 hours of a callout. They're trained in airborne and air assault attack operations, direct action operations, raids, infiltration and extraction by air, land or sea in addition to airfield seizure, recovery of personnel and special equipment and support of general purpose forces. Any of the Special Forces Groups such as 1 SFG and 5 SFG(A) are trained in things such as unconventional warfare (the original and most important mission of Special Forces), foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance behind the lines, direct action and counter-terrorism. In essence, the Rangers are quick in-and-out strike troops while the Green Berets involve themselves in behind-the-scenes actions against the enemy. "Not to mention the shit with the world's oil being stolen by that space-taxi company right after the Director's brother made the tag." A reference to the third Yatsura manga story, "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." A Merdiana alumni named Nekane Springfield This is Negi Springfield's beloved "one-chan" (in truth, Nekane is Negi's cousin) from Maho Sensei Negima. As noted in PFTA, the Negima timeline is set around 2002 (given the birth years of all of Negi's students being set around 1988 and 1989). His wives were Mandy Brocklehurst from Ravenclaw (now the Lady Potter) and Pansy Parkinson of Slytherin (now the Lady Black) Read the PFTA side story "Wizards and Avalonians" to see how this happened. I did this as a wink to all the "harem" stories a lot of Harry Potter fanfic writers indulge in. Jodo-shu I've always perceived Cherry as a normal wandering, itinerant Buddhist monk; making him part of the Jodo-shu school of Japanese Buddhism made sense. However, recent amendments to the Urusei Yatsura entry at Wikipedia reveal that Cherry is actually part of the Shugen-do (literally meaning "Way of Study and Testing") sect, which is a path that sees enlightenment being obtained by becoming one with the gods. Miss Shichinohe In my writings, I give all the Steel Angels from Kotetsu Tenshi Kurumi family names, mostly based on whoever created them. This is the name of the artist who created the character of the Angel of Destruction, Kaga, who appeared in manga episode #7. Ayanokoji Hakushi Kurumi's and Saki's creator did not receive a given name in Kotetsu Tenshi Kurumi. For Dr. Ayanokoji's given name, I used a different reading of the kanji ??, which is normally read hakase, the suffix honorific for university professors. Ripping flags off girls' panties . . .? As depicted in manga episode #13 of Kotetsu Tenshi Kurumi, the French warrior Fleur (whom I give the full name Fleur Champraide) faced off against the Imperial Japanese Navy's own resident Steel Angel, Aoi (whom I gave the full name Togo Aoi) in one of the first rounds of the "Steel Angel Wars." Based on the "capture the flag" contest, the winner of the bout had to seize the loser's national flag. Whether or not Fleur actually had her flag stitched on her panties, though . . .! "This Tsukuyomi girl . . . " A nod to the "Dark Lady of the Orient," who was mentioned in The Icemaidens and the Philosopher's Stone. In effect the Far East counterpart of Gellert Grindelwald, the Lady Tsukuyomi was striving to free Japan and its neighbouring nations from the overall control and influence of "Western" magical influences (especially the use of wands). She would eventually be killed in the Nagasaki atomic bombing of 9 August 1945. Dutch Masters Honey Sports cigars One of the early inspirations for Dean Raeburn was the character of Captain "Wild" Bill Kelso (played by the late John Belushi) in the war comedy 1941, released in 1979. He was always smoking Dutch Masters cigars as noted in the novelisation of the film. Dean herself personally believes that one must "have one good vice" to be truly human. Übermenschen Gruppe My play-off of the concept of Axis Amerika (a team of Axis metahumans meant to attack America directly) which appeared in Young All-Stars when the comic series began to be published in 1987. The name of this force translates literally "Group of Supermen;" all of them were metahumans gifted by the injection of ebony meson, which made them all go insane over time. Due to not being able to de-crystallise the meson in their bodies, Dean Raeburn was ultimately forced to mercy-kill them all by the end of World War Two. 10th Saskatchewan Cavalry Regiment (Air) The senior regiment of the Royal Canadian Corps of Air Cavalry. Given the short-form title 10 SASK CAV R. Descent from volunteer mounted riflemen that fought in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. The traditional home station for the Regiment is Saskatoon, though the recently reformed Regular Force Regiment is currently based an an army airfield located in Dundurn (located 40 kilometres south of Saskatoon). **** **** **** - Pyeknu - 07-30-2012 I'm now thinking of a scene where Doug would run into the Cyborg version of Moroboshi Ataru and he'd ask this: "And whomsoever art thou, in thy cast-iron tuxedo?" People should be able to recognise this from the 1955 classic Knight Mare Hare. - Bob Schroeck - 07-30-2012 And from the first chapter of DW5. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - robkelk - 07-30-2012 Hey, any joke worth re-using is worth running into the ground... -- 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 - Pyeknu - 07-30-2012 Bob Schroeck Wrote:And from the first chapter of DW5.Oh, didn't know it had already been used. Was there another thing either Bugs or anyone might have said in that type of situation? - Bob Schroeck - 07-31-2012 Nah, that's fine. Over a century and a half, Doug pretty much has to repeat every reference several times. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - Pyeknu - 07-31-2012 Bob Schroeck Wrote:Nah, that's fine. Over a century and a half, Doug pretty much has to repeat every reference several times.Right. I'll keep it in mind. - Bob Schroeck - 07-31-2012 After all, he's got a new audience in every world! -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - Pyeknu - 07-31-2012 Bob Schroeck Wrote:After all, he's got a new audience in every world!True. Didn't think of it that way! ^_- - robkelk - 07-31-2012 "I'll be here all week! [size=smaller]mutter-grumble-rassin-frassin[/size] Try the veal!" -- 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 - Bob Schroeck - 08-01-2012 (I am laughing wildly right now, and only the prereaders know why.) -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - Pyeknu - 08-01-2012 ?! - Star Ranger4 - 08-01-2012 I would assume that it has something to do with Chapter 2 of the Harry Potter step, which was within 3 scenes of completion. quite probobly some of the new material in that either pastiches "Every world is a new audience" or "I'll be here all week" Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children |