Derek--
After I sent the message below I noticed that although the COALINFONET
page and Eric Bould introduction was on Uxi's page, it looks like the
intro was signed by you, so sorry for getting that wrong.
As soon as I saw Eric's name I had a kind of warm feeling, but I could not
add any factual details so I feel sad about knowing here's someone I had a
connection to but don't know what it was. Cue another monologue from me
about memory...
So I guess Eric was one of the early big BARD guys, and maybe wrote a lot
of the stories on that page?
I like the bits you wrote about Eric walking the shores of Aubaine, and
how TNE lives so long as the story of the RC keeps moving.
You BARD guys did a really good job. Franklin Cain's scenario with the
BL-detailed scenario was particularly impressive with the planning
vectors. I also like the way you guys cooked up your own big pot of
alphabet soup for the various information categories, Lawrence Cox's color
RC logo, etc. I have this fear that some of you guys may have been some of
the people who felt Dave had abandoned you and took the universe with him.
Sorry about that, it wasn't up to me.
I notice some names in the BARD credits that are still around, but a lot
that I guess aren't anymore. But I did e-mail with Mark Marchi a few days
ago. The copyright dates on BARD are pretty consistently 1996, did all of
that creativity take place in the space of a year? As I've said before,
I'm both glad and surprised that you guys hung around this long.
Who blew up Eos? Was that me or after me? It could have been me, but I was
hesitant to kill a clipper as they were so few to begin with. When I wrote
the PoT ship section it was based on published metrics for tonnage of
ships that could be produced, and the RC was pushing those to begin with,
even with established fudge factors, so we couldn't afford to blow up too
many of them, even though the spear carrier/redshirt ethic (of which I'm
actually an anti-fan) required us to do so periodically just to keep
people on their toes.
> Eric was my GM when I was playing TNE, if you didn't talk to him while you
> were at GDW it would have been soon there after. He died about 15 years
> back, a month before his 30th birthday.
>
> He was an interesting and adventurous guy who I still think about on
> occasion to this day. He had one grandfather who fought in the Pacific
> and both knew and disliked "Pappy" Boeington intensely, and another who
> was part of the army group that liberated Dachau. He had the camp flag in
> a box in his attic, very creepy.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:05 AM, wrote:
>>
>> Uxi--
>>
>> While looking for Derek's BARD page I came across your COALINFONET page
>> which is dedicated to Eric Bould. I recognize that name, did I know him
>> while I was at GDW or thereafter?
>>
>> Also, I saw that you destroyed Coral Sea Victrix. DUDE! She was my
>> favorite one, I never would have destroyed her.
>>
>> > I wrote the thing rationalizing the two names. Gabriella Ramastan and
>> > Christian Overtak or something very like that. The rationalization is
>> in
>> > the BARD pages somewhere.
>> >
>> > Derek Stanley
>> > Sent from my iPhone...
>> >
>> >> On Apr 3, 2014, at 21:53, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just for the record, there was...an issue with the quotes in Vampire
>> >> Fleets.
>> >>
>> >> Everything in there is true, and happened as written, but Frank put
>> >> some
>> >> of those in at the last minute without my seeing them. I loved them
>> >> all,
>> >> but when I saw the dates on a couple of them I said, "Holy Crap,
>> Frank,
>> >> that wasn't going to happen so soon!"
>> >>
>> >> But we would have found a way to make it work. For example, the
>> "first
>> >> contact between RC and Regency" was like 1205 or 6, but we could
>> easily
>> >> massage that, where that date was the first contact of the
>> >> way-way-advance
>> >> scouts, not the main bodies where the disagreements began.
>> >>
>> >> I had to do that sort of thing all the time. Not only were there
>> huge
>> >> numbers of inconsistencies and contradictions in the CT and MT
>> material
>> >> that I had to rationalize or bury, but stuff like the time Frank
>> gave
>> >> two
>> >> at least two different names to the Queen of Solee, which I had to
>> >> rationalize, I think in COALINFONET in Challenge 76 at least.
>> >>
>> >> So yes, the VF quotes are real and true, just not indicative of what
>> I
>> >> believed the timeline would be, VF made them appear a little sooner,
>> >> but
>> >> we would have found a way to make it work.
>> >>
>> >> > Doesn't that occur after Promise gets liberated? I recall a
>> statement
>> >> at
>> >> > the end of vampire fleets that the operation was going to be run on
>> a
>> >> > shoestring. With that, it's hard to see ships able to be spared to
>> >> > intedict those who go on the run.
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> > --------------------------------------------
>> >> > I think that's where the Solee
>> >> > ships come in. The RCN is going to be pretty formidable by
>> >> > 1205 - 1206 when they're pumping out Sandman destroyers
>> >> > out of the automated Guilded Lilly shipyard.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Sent from my SM-N900T
>> >> >
>> >> > On Apr 3, 2014 8:28 PM,
>> >> > "Eamon Watters" <>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > True, though how effective a hunt for those on the
>> >> > run could be is up for question. The EC value disparity
>> >> > reminds me of a scenario I plotted with a very special
>> >> > inflitration team taking over the Evangelical Doomslayer
>> >> > Virus which is the origin of the corewards traffic on the
>> >> > Vampire Highway.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>
After I sent the message below I noticed that although the COALINFONET
page and Eric Bould introduction was on Uxi's page, it looks like the
intro was signed by you, so sorry for getting that wrong.
As soon as I saw Eric's name I had a kind of warm feeling, but I could not
add any factual details so I feel sad about knowing here's someone I had a
connection to but don't know what it was. Cue another monologue from me
about memory...
So I guess Eric was one of the early big BARD guys, and maybe wrote a lot
of the stories on that page?
I like the bits you wrote about Eric walking the shores of Aubaine, and
how TNE lives so long as the story of the RC keeps moving.
You BARD guys did a really good job. Franklin Cain's scenario with the
BL-detailed scenario was particularly impressive with the planning
vectors. I also like the way you guys cooked up your own big pot of
alphabet soup for the various information categories, Lawrence Cox's color
RC logo, etc. I have this fear that some of you guys may have been some of
the people who felt Dave had abandoned you and took the universe with him.
Sorry about that, it wasn't up to me.
I notice some names in the BARD credits that are still around, but a lot
that I guess aren't anymore. But I did e-mail with Mark Marchi a few days
ago. The copyright dates on BARD are pretty consistently 1996, did all of
that creativity take place in the space of a year? As I've said before,
I'm both glad and surprised that you guys hung around this long.
Who blew up Eos? Was that me or after me? It could have been me, but I was
hesitant to kill a clipper as they were so few to begin with. When I wrote
the PoT ship section it was based on published metrics for tonnage of
ships that could be produced, and the RC was pushing those to begin with,
even with established fudge factors, so we couldn't afford to blow up too
many of them, even though the spear carrier/redshirt ethic (of which I'm
actually an anti-fan) required us to do so periodically just to keep
people on their toes.
> Eric was my GM when I was playing TNE, if you didn't talk to him while you
> were at GDW it would have been soon there after. He died about 15 years
> back, a month before his 30th birthday.
>
> He was an interesting and adventurous guy who I still think about on
> occasion to this day. He had one grandfather who fought in the Pacific
> and both knew and disliked "Pappy" Boeington intensely, and another who
> was part of the army group that liberated Dachau. He had the camp flag in
> a box in his attic, very creepy.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:05 AM, wrote:
>>
>> Uxi--
>>
>> While looking for Derek's BARD page I came across your COALINFONET page
>> which is dedicated to Eric Bould. I recognize that name, did I know him
>> while I was at GDW or thereafter?
>>
>> Also, I saw that you destroyed Coral Sea Victrix. DUDE! She was my
>> favorite one, I never would have destroyed her.
>>
>> > I wrote the thing rationalizing the two names. Gabriella Ramastan and
>> > Christian Overtak or something very like that. The rationalization is
>> in
>> > the BARD pages somewhere.
>> >
>> > Derek Stanley
>> > Sent from my iPhone...
>> >
>> >> On Apr 3, 2014, at 21:53, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just for the record, there was...an issue with the quotes in Vampire
>> >> Fleets.
>> >>
>> >> Everything in there is true, and happened as written, but Frank put
>> >> some
>> >> of those in at the last minute without my seeing them. I loved them
>> >> all,
>> >> but when I saw the dates on a couple of them I said, "Holy Crap,
>> Frank,
>> >> that wasn't going to happen so soon!"
>> >>
>> >> But we would have found a way to make it work. For example, the
>> "first
>> >> contact between RC and Regency" was like 1205 or 6, but we could
>> easily
>> >> massage that, where that date was the first contact of the
>> >> way-way-advance
>> >> scouts, not the main bodies where the disagreements began.
>> >>
>> >> I had to do that sort of thing all the time. Not only were there
>> huge
>> >> numbers of inconsistencies and contradictions in the CT and MT
>> material
>> >> that I had to rationalize or bury, but stuff like the time Frank
>> gave
>> >> two
>> >> at least two different names to the Queen of Solee, which I had to
>> >> rationalize, I think in COALINFONET in Challenge 76 at least.
>> >>
>> >> So yes, the VF quotes are real and true, just not indicative of what
>> I
>> >> believed the timeline would be, VF made them appear a little sooner,
>> >> but
>> >> we would have found a way to make it work.
>> >>
>> >> > Doesn't that occur after Promise gets liberated? I recall a
>> statement
>> >> at
>> >> > the end of vampire fleets that the operation was going to be run on
>> a
>> >> > shoestring. With that, it's hard to see ships able to be spared to
>> >> > intedict those who go on the run.
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> > --------------------------------------------
>> >> > I think that's where the Solee
>> >> > ships come in. The RCN is going to be pretty formidable by
>> >> > 1205 - 1206 when they're pumping out Sandman destroyers
>> >> > out of the automated Guilded Lilly shipyard.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Sent from my SM-N900T
>> >> >
>> >> > On Apr 3, 2014 8:28 PM,
>> >> > "Eamon Watters" <>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > True, though how effective a hunt for those on the
>> >> > run could be is up for question. The EC value disparity
>> >> > reminds me of a scenario I plotted with a very special
>> >> > inflitration team taking over the Evangelical Doomslayer
>> >> > Virus which is the origin of the corewards traffic on the
>> >> > Vampire Highway.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>