blacktigeractual
BTSD: Rage of Angels
« on: September 06, 2009, 07:16:43 AM »
As I was writing this last bit about the events surounding the fall of the Star League I looked at an older very whimsical idea I had what if a faction with in the SLDF decided to take the House Lords captive. They decide to restore the League by force. Important points: Kerensky is discredited thus his Exodus is vastly diminished, Amanda claims the First Lord's title.
There is a Cameron heir.
Davion and Steiner initially are Loyalists (Instead of a Sucession War we have a Civil War.)
The theme of this is rage, pure and simple, after liberating Terra, the SLDF (Most especially the Royals are pissed.) I had written a more thorough description of this scenario but I cant seem to find it. Thoughts anyone?
Okay found it.
An idea I'd been toying around with is this; what if the SLDF isn't that beat up (No Periphery Mech Divisions), The Terran resource base is not as depleted as in BTSD. Now lets borrow a couple of names (We can change them later.) Nominal First Lord Amanda Cameron tries to hold everything together. As first the Draconis Combine, then the Free Worlds League sceede from the Star League the loyal units of the SLDF under General and Consort Ian Sinclair (Lets keep these two kids together, they're cute.) execute campaigns in both nations that go well initally but when the Capellan Confederation attacks the Loyalist Federated Suns things begin to bog down.
The continued warfare has a drastic influence on Terran society. Humanity must be brought under one government...Now! The increasing brutallity of the Terrans shocks the Lyran Commonwealth into declaring itself neutral. With pressure relived on them by the sudden turn of events the DCMS and FWLM launch into vicious counterattacks that push the SLDF almost to the breaking point. The DCMS also attacks into the FedSuns in a wave of vengeance, knocking the AFFS competely out of the Combine and the Draconis March.
John Davion, sickened by the conflict prepares to negotiate a truce with Minoru Kurita. Before talks can get underway a wave of assasinations strikes the Davion line John, Joshua and Paul are all struck down, evidence points to the Combine. Riding the wave of outrage, First Lord Amanda installs the Duchess of Chesterton Sarah Davion as First Prince, with her husband a minor SLDF officer as Prince's Champion. (This will have dire consequences for the Terrans when the new leader and her husband learn who truly was behind John's murder.) Working in concert with Field Marshal Gwen Haesk on the Capellan Front, Field Marshal Gilmour manages to stabilize the Fed Suns situation.
Then Kentares happens. Driven wild the AFFS pushes the Combine as far back as Benjamin before running out of steam with Jinjiro captured at Robinson. Cut off in thier advance two whole Combine Army Groups are destroyed by the Terrans. Meanwhile in a secret meeting, Sarah Davion and Barbara Liao sign a non agression treaty on Chesterton. Barbara, who's hatred of Kenyon Marik knows no bounds after the Free Worlds League troops open withdrawl of support on the Terran Front led to the destuction of three of the six Northwind Highlander formations along with numerous attending regiments on Chesterton by a SLDF/AFFS task force, orders the CCAF to "Carve a path to Atreus thirty light years wide."
The beginings of a new century dawn with the Star League in shambles. Wounded but still strong the Dragon under Coordinator Zabu Kurita after Jinjiro is executed on New Avalon rebuilds its strength. The Terran Hegemony although weary of conflict prepares grimly for for the next round of the Reunification War. The Lyran Commonwealth having been bogged down in the Rim Worlds Republic begins to suffer it's first setbacks as the Dragon turns its attentions to the relatvely untouched Steiners.
The Free Worlds League feeling the strain of trying to contain the SLDF juggernaut may be mortally wounded if it cannot stop the vengful Capellans. Amanda Cameron however wonders just why it's so quiet on the FedSuns/CapCom border.... Sarah Davion begins to chafe at the Terrans treating her beloved Suns as a puppet state while her husband has made headway in rebuilding the AFFS into a lean efficient fighting force. (Err well, the Avalon Hussars any way.) The biggest question for the pair is this...who is will they be fighting?
Okay, Through a Mirror twice over and even more Darkly anyone.
Takiro
Re: BTSD: Rage of Angels
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2009, 09:27:55 AM »
Seems like another version of the Succession War with Terra participating. In this case the Star League Not Matter the Cost crowd would still have its backers. The vengeful Amanda you've created here could certainly discredit Kerensky IMO and have more of the SLDF remain. That could bit her in the ass thought. Fanatics devoted to the ideal would no doubt dwindle after such actions and a wave of defections would plague the Terran Supremists. Now here is where you are screwed. You better keep the Houses fighting each other cause if they come after you the odds and numbers are squarely against you. Divide and conquer becomes necessary.
muttley
Re: BTSD: Rage of Angels
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2009, 05:10:55 PM »
Wipe them out... all of them...
And Stefan Amaris laughs in Hell as Satan tells him to pick another pineapple!
