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Field Report Periphery 2765 and XTRO Primitives IV were just released!

Both quality products.

If by great you mean the editors appear to have been drunk, yes.
There's some good material but when FR 2765 Periphery claims that the Magistracy Royal Guard were "the soul of the DCMS" I think it's pretty clear that someone phoned this one in.

Yeah, i'd not caught that one when I posted, there's the Lola II and RAT issue as well, other than that I think it is good.

I believe the Canopian War College was tied to the Sun Zhang if memory serves right and although that happens in the distant future (3050s I believe as opposed to 2765) it would be interesting if the Guards had some ties to the DCMS. Say modeled on the Swords of Light in some fashion. It would display a Magistracy tendency to emulate the Dragon's fighting prowess which it finds admirable. Perhaps even encouraged during the height of the Star League ties between the Draconis Combine and the Magistracy of Canopus helped their integration following the occupation. Joint exercises perhaps were allowed by the Camerons in the spirit of friendship. The Combine could have been long fostering a relationship that would unsettle the Hegemony if it screwed with them. Don't forget it was Draconis arms dealers who helped supply the Periphery powers with weaponry perhaps in this case it was even more friendly.

Just spit balling!

..It's missing the Mako- and Naga-class ships warships from TRO:3057R...

Not sure what the issue is with the Naga- the entry makes no mention of them being in any periphery military, just that 3 survived the SL era.

..and it doesn't account for the origins of the seven Monsoon battleships, all of which were accounted for and scrapped or decommissioned in 2668. This one could be chalked up to the general line in LoT:I saying 200 warships were sold to the RWR, but good lord. These were the pride-and-joy of the Hegemony fleet. It's akin to the US selling the USS Constitution to Russia. O.o

The Monsoon entry says they were retired- it makes no mention of them being scrapped- that was the Farragut entry.  So the answer is clearly that the Monsoons were retired and Mothballed and later given to the RWR,  The fact that they were the pride and joy of the TH  doesn't necessarily mean much in the 2750s/60s when they were turned over to the RWR.  If anything your Constitution comparison would be more appropriate for if the SL/TH turned over the Dreadnought to the RWR- the Monsoons were beloved by the Hegemony admirals, not necessarily the public.  (You could argue the situation is no different the USS Enterprise after WWII- loved by the men who served on her, but still broken up for scrap due to a lack of enough public support to preserve her).

Oh! *whew* I found out that text issue with the Magistracy Royal Guards was NOT an editing error, but a layout one!

Not my fault!

- Herb

Masters & Minions describes the RWN Dystopia; an abandoned, Naga-class ship found by ROM near a former Republican world. So this wasn't in Terra's system; it was back in the RWR. They had it before the Coup.

Or it was captured after the Coup and later fled the TH for home when the SLDF liberated the Hegemony. Right now with the info me we have this inconclusive.