OOC: Jesus God! Twenty five new posts overnight!
Also, Jinx, compadre, could ya try to follow the email headers n' stuff if you're going to jump in on the RP? Keeps things from getting too confusing, y'know?
Anyway, on with our regularly scheduled programming....
From: General Fnord (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 23, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re: Operational Planning
> Folks who've had time to read the Goddamned Books: Just how
> left-wing is this Al Smith guy? Can he be trusted? Can we
> work with him, if we have to? I'm tempted to land a dropship
> on the man's lawn and ask him to send a rep of his own up to
> see what's what, so he doesn't get any hinky notions while
> we put down that turd, Featherstone.
I ought to punch you for that, but we've got bigger things to worry about.
Smith can be trusted to the extent that any 191 politician can be trusted. Tutrledove wrote him as a Chamberlain-analogue with a few bits of Roosevelt for flavor; he's initially for accomodation with the Confederates for much the same reason Chamberlain was - he didn't actually believe that anybody wanted another goddamned war. However, once shit hits the fan he's a pretty good war leader up until the Confederates bomb the Powell House (that's 191's equiv. of the White House, up in Philly) out of existence with him in it. That happens around 1942 in the books, IIRC.
That said, we *do* need to work with the 191 USA here, folks. They aren't the best people in the universe (ha) but they *are* the ones who'll take it on the chin when things start happening.
So on that note, who wants to go meet the neighbors? I understand that the rump US government plus the surviving military forces will want to set up their own delegations, that's all well and good. Meanwhile we as the Convention should send our own people to US and CS, to get a better idea of ground conditions.
I still recommend that we send Benjamin down to dicker with Featherston; Ben's a Texan, therefore he's probably the best bet we have in successfully convincing cracker!Hitler that the world's changed and he should maybe stop. It's a low-probability event, but we should at least take a shot at it before throwing hardware around.
That leaves open who gets to go to the US. I'll take that if nobody else wants it (or is too socialistphobic to take it). Hopefully this business in Manitoba is a one-off aberration; I really don't want to have to declare war on *everybody* in the damned transition zone.
--Fnord
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Also, Jinx, compadre, could ya try to follow the email headers n' stuff if you're going to jump in on the RP? Keeps things from getting too confusing, y'know?
Anyway, on with our regularly scheduled programming....
From: General Fnord (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 23, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re: Operational Planning
> Folks who've had time to read the Goddamned Books: Just how
> left-wing is this Al Smith guy? Can he be trusted? Can we
> work with him, if we have to? I'm tempted to land a dropship
> on the man's lawn and ask him to send a rep of his own up to
> see what's what, so he doesn't get any hinky notions while
> we put down that turd, Featherstone.
I ought to punch you for that, but we've got bigger things to worry about.
Smith can be trusted to the extent that any 191 politician can be trusted. Tutrledove wrote him as a Chamberlain-analogue with a few bits of Roosevelt for flavor; he's initially for accomodation with the Confederates for much the same reason Chamberlain was - he didn't actually believe that anybody wanted another goddamned war. However, once shit hits the fan he's a pretty good war leader up until the Confederates bomb the Powell House (that's 191's equiv. of the White House, up in Philly) out of existence with him in it. That happens around 1942 in the books, IIRC.
That said, we *do* need to work with the 191 USA here, folks. They aren't the best people in the universe (ha) but they *are* the ones who'll take it on the chin when things start happening.
So on that note, who wants to go meet the neighbors? I understand that the rump US government plus the surviving military forces will want to set up their own delegations, that's all well and good. Meanwhile we as the Convention should send our own people to US and CS, to get a better idea of ground conditions.
I still recommend that we send Benjamin down to dicker with Featherston; Ben's a Texan, therefore he's probably the best bet we have in successfully convincing cracker!Hitler that the world's changed and he should maybe stop. It's a low-probability event, but we should at least take a shot at it before throwing hardware around.
That leaves open who gets to go to the US. I'll take that if nobody else wants it (or is too socialistphobic to take it). Hopefully this business in Manitoba is a one-off aberration; I really don't want to have to declare war on *everybody* in the damned transition zone.
--Fnord
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"