Re: Eric Bould, CSEA Victrix

Part of thread: Re: Eric Bould, CSEA Victrix · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: Eric Bould, CSEA Victrix — dcnilsen13 Re: Eric Bould, CSEA Victrix — dcnilsen13
I think that was Frank, it was in Vampire Fleets, IIRC.

The "Mike Mikesh" was in reference to Mark/Mike Marchi thing below, I hadn't heard of Mike Marchi before, thought that the name misremembering might have gone through several iterations.

Eamon
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On Sat, 5/4/14, <> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Eric Bould, CSEA Victrix
To:
Date: Saturday, 5 April, 2014, 10:39


 









Blew up Eos?



> 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

>> >>> >> >

>> >>> >> >

>> >>> >> >

>> >>> >>

>> >>> >>

>> >>> >

>> >>>

>> >>>

>> >>

>> >

>> >

>>

>>

>













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