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Hmmmm The Ice Hellions Fallen Oh No My favorite Rivals and Moving targets gone

Quote from: Gabriel on November 22, 2011, 01:20:31 AM

Hmmmm The Ice Hellions Fallen Oh No My favorite Rivals and Moving targets gone

I was so saddened.

Interesting ideas.
Did the Wolf's Dragoons go into the Periphery to complete their survey?

Yeah the Ice Hellions demise was precipitated by the damage they took in Op: KLONDIKE, my short story: Ripple Effect covers most of that. I'm starting another one that will cover the next year or so with the end of the Wolverines (and explain why they didn't become the Not-Named in my timeline more).

I had the Wolf's Dragoons head to the periphery for a couple reasons, but yes completing their survey was one of them (I didn't include it but I imagine they offered employment to the Outworlds Alliance but were turned down). I also thought working for the periphery nations would be a great way to reduce piracy and boost the collective economy and military power of the Inner Sphere, the reasoning being that they could have a larger effect in a "smaller pond" so to speak. The Wolf's Dragoons and the Mercenary Corps of Engineers idea is one of my main justifications for the changes to the inner sphere I have made, beyond how an altered Wolverine destruction would make a more powerful sect of ComStar later in the timeline.

My plan for them now is to sign on with the FedCom after the start of the 4th War, but participate in the Capellan side of the conflict and maybe foil a comstar plot or two

Not bad! Looking forward to reading more in the near future?

...Its impressive!  I do have a couple notes, though.

For somebody unfamiliar with your AU, I think you might want to include a short explaination of your project.  Explain the broad outline of events, so the reader is aware of the differences, probably before the 'Preparations' section.

...And you really need a front- and back cover.  Art makes all the difference on a project like this.  Its about the only thing I'd like to see added, it looks interesting, I can't wait to spend more time with it.

Kind of like the "How to Use this Book" Section in many canon sourcebooks but also to explain the difference from canon? I like that idea and will incorporate it in the revised edition (which I'm working on now).

Art is something that is far from my forte but I had started to see that it would be necessary and started to incorporate it more at the Mercenary section and later. As you can probably tell this is just a Microsoft Word document saved as a PDF. I'm looking for what I can use to make the document in a nicer and more aesthetically appealing format, cover art would be a large portion of this.

Thanks for the input!

Not bad! Looking forward to reading more in the near future?

This is just the 1st full draft of this document, I will be polishing it up but yes I am also starting work on another short story (really part 2 of a trilogy with my original short story: http://ourbattletech.com/forum/parallel-universes/battletech-au-ripple-effect/) and have my notes for several more short stories, a TRO 3031 (not a full TRO mind you but I'm trying ) and a Historical: 4th Succession War. My original plan was to do a Historical: Brush Wars and Historical:3039 but as that is a lot of stuff and I can't hope to compete with the awesomeness that is the canon versions of these sourcebooks, I may do the three historicals as mini-sourcebooks (maybe 50-75 pages dealing mostly with the changes from canon) before moving onto the Clan Invasion, if my TRO 3031 goes well I'll probably want to do another dealing with new stuff from the 3030's-3040's before the Clan Invasion. I have the 4th Sucession War and the period after to about 3037 almost completely fleshed out (and a murky timeline up until 3050) but the Clan Invasion (and even if it happens!) is at this point further out than I'm looking yet.

Anyways I kinda started to ramble there but yes you can expect more in the future (near may be a relative term)

Tagged - getting dragged out to go christmas shopping - again.

I look forward to your input and have "fun" shopping

Also tagged.

I had problems downloading it for some reason. I'm checking the server now.

I'm betting the size might cause issues. When I originally made it into a PDF on my PC it came out as 17 GBs, just utilizing the PDF printer on my Mac cut that by 10 GBs (apparently the one I have installed on my PC sucks), but I had to deal with a bunch of formatting issues between Office 2010 and Office 2011 of course (just a few but still you'd think they'd work together)

I have GIMP and I don't really have an issue editing individual pieces or work (the quality of my work is another matter). My real issue is finding a program to compile the work in, as I said I just have this in a Word document but its not very friendly for making something of this scale. Off the suggestions of a friend and co-worker of mine I tried a website editor (iWeb) because you can print to PDF. I tinkered around but have abandoned it because I can't find a way to get multiple pages in the PDF document to line up correctly (pixels don't line up with whatever adobe uses in PDFs apparently) so unless I can find a way to merge multiple PDF files into one I'll have to find another program to utilize, I attached the beginnings of what I was tinkering with (most of Clan Fire Mandrill) I liked it because it looked fairly decent imo (pulled the borders from Reunification War) and would reduce the size of the document.