Mike Mikesh?
Sent from my iPad
On 5 Apr 2014, at 01:05, wrote:
> Correction: I said "Mark Marchi" below. Should have been "Mike." Something
> in my brain fell for a non-existent internal rhyme.
>
> > 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
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
Sent from my iPad
On 5 Apr 2014, at 01:05, wrote:
> Correction: I said "Mark Marchi" below. Should have been "Mike." Something
> in my brain fell for a non-existent internal rhyme.
>
> > 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
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>