From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
She's good, but she's no Garrus.You could go with "Archangel" as a moniker.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
To be honest, I wasn't thinking Mass Effect so much as I was thinking Gundam SEED. The Archangel-class is described as "Mobile Assault Carrier" (correct me if I'm wrong), and while a carrier is intended to support the aircraft (or mobile suits, in this example), the Archangel-class is quite an effective offensive unit by itself. (I'm pretty sure the "LCAM" designation stands for "(something) Carrier Assault (something)," but I can't really remember...)She's good, but she's no Garrus.You could go with "Archangel" as a moniker.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
Who needs to worry about things like AMF fields when you're piloting 25,000 tons of awesome? Also, who needs to worry about AMF fields and the like when you can spam AAA-rank Divine Busters? ... I fear for Nanoha becoming a fan of Touhou games. Though Danmaku fights seem like an interesting concept to adapt for Pilot spars/fights....On the other hand, the TSAB mages love having people who will use violence in reacting to threats on missions with a high chance of things going horribly wrong. The Huckbein wouldn't stand a chance in hell here.
I would make a comment about child soldiers, but piloting a giant mecha against kaiju is far different from a child soldier.That doesn't mean that there aren't TSAB mages who would fit right in with the Offensive Pilots. You mentioned Runessa, Phht. I would disagree with that, as she would be benched for psychological reasons quickly. That lady has a serious chip on her shoulder with regards to the TSAB due to her experiences as a child soldier during the Orussian Civil War, not to mention the issues she would have from being a child soldier in the first place.
Nanoha as a Touhou fan? Sounds hilarious, especially if she manages to spread it around the MSO.Who needs to worry about things like AMF fields when you're piloting 25,000 tons of awesome? Also, who needs to worry about AMF fields and the like when you can spam AAA-rank Divine Busters? ... I fear for Nanoha becoming a fan of Touhou games. Though Danmaku fights seem like an interesting concept to adapt for Pilot spars/fights....
In other words, we can make it so that the Orussian Civil War gets ended before that, or that she gets evac'ed by a joint MSO/TSAB task force. I would say that the Orussian's conduct of their civil war would really piss off the MSO personnel, to the point where the MSO sends in a task force to put an end to it, along with putting the leadership of both sides in it on trial for war crimes. The TSAB let them, even providing some assistance that was "off the record" in doing so. They were just as unhappy about it, but their own laws kept them from putting a stop to things outside of keeping the entire thing localized to one world.I would make a comment about child soldiers, but piloting a giant mecha against kaiju is far different from a child soldier.
Part of what I was thinking that would allow her to fit in more is that it's noted that she "feels herself out of place in the placid administrated worlds." Earth is less placid than the administered worlds for one, and as it's still a Non-Administered World, she's not around TSAB all the time. Plus, Earth still uses "mass weaponry," which would help her fit in more given that her device doubles as a "live ammo gun."
I do have to wonder if the Mariage Incident gets short circuited in MGPN. Normally it occurs in 0078, and Tredia Graze dies in 0074, at which point Runessa Magnus decides to take over the plan. Runessa would've been near fatally injured and evac'ed from her home planet in 0069 some time. There's a time frame in there that she could end up avoiding the giant chip on her shoulder regarding TSAB, especially if she isn't taken in by Tredia's ideology.
Earth based magic isn't that formalized. Each different school represents different approaches and philosophical viewpoints on it, rather than a single system with separate schools of thought. In comparison to the Mid-Childan or Belkan systems, it is highly versatile, but at the cost of efficiency when it comes to high powered magic. Earth's mages don't even call it a single system and laugh at the TSAB's calling it a single system with several different "schools". The TSAB did so, more for the sake of easier classification.I consider the magic system used by Earth to be a separate system from Midchildan and Belkan. Or at least the system used when in rides. A major identifier of this system is the lack of a magic circle for most spells, the ability to use spells from other systems without necessarily being a practitioner of that particular system, and no real theme regarding the system. It should be noted that the Senshi system of magic is considered separate from the Earth system, as Sailor Senshi are not limited to Earth and predate the existence of the Earth magic system. While there is debate within TSAB over whether it's one magic system or several, TSAB currently groups all magic systems native to Earth as the Earth magic system and lists subtypes to refer to specific 'schools' within the system, such as wand magic and ki users.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
Well, look at the time frame. She gets near fatally injured in 0069, when the BoD Incident occurs. This means there's no way to get a joint MSO/TSAB team involved. Next thing we know about her is that she takes over Tredia's plan in 0074 after his death. Then she gets arrested and plan foiled in 0078. We don't actually know when he got his claws into her except that he had by 0074. (How did Tredia and her get to know each other anyhow?)In other words, we can make it so that the Orussian Civil War gets ended before that, or that she gets evac'ed by a joint MSO/TSAB task force. I would say that the Orussian's conduct of their civil war would really piss off the MSO personnel, to the point where the MSO sends in a task force to put an end to it, along with putting the leadership of both sides in it on trial for war crimes. The TSAB let them, even providing some assistance that was "off the record" in doing so. They were just as unhappy about it, but their own laws kept them from putting a stop to things outside of keeping the entire thing localized to one world.
Runessa would certainly fit in in this case, as she would be operating without Tredia's influence on her.
Yeah, I was speaking of it from the TSAB point of view. Namely that trying to classify it as a single system is largely their way of going "fuck it, we're done with this shit!" I feel like many spell researchers and scientists tend to get reduced to either tears or frothing rage when trying to work on the Earth "system." So they clump it into one system, do subtypes to differentiate the various 'schools', and try to ignore it after that.Earth based magic isn't that formalized. Each different school represents different approaches and philosophical viewpoints on it, rather than a single system with separate schools of thought. In comparison to the Mid-Childan or Belkan systems, it is highly versatile, but at the cost of efficiency when it comes to high powered magic. Earth's mages don't even call it a single system and laugh at the TSAB's calling it a single system with several different "schools". The TSAB did so, more for the sake of easier classification.
To be fair, I gave the approximate time frame it fell. I never mentioned how long it had stood by that point. Hm. The Warring Ages are guessed to have been from ~1000 years prior to a few hundred years prior. So if we place 0074 as 2014, then the Warring Ages would've likely started around 990-1020. So Al-Hazard would've been around ~15,000+ years? ... Unless by "stumbled upon the Silver Millennium" you mean its remains, in which case never mind! Or if you've extended the length of the Belkan Empire/Warring Ages, etc.On your idea of tying in the Silver Millennium to the same period as Belka. How about we make it even older and steal a page from "White Devil of the Moon". The Silver Millennium was a contemporary of Al-Hazard (who's existence in the timeline is hard to place), with some limited contact with them. In this case, Al-Hazard is a human civilization which was founded by descendants who left Earth much earlier (Homo Sapiens has been around for 200,000 years, after all) and they stumbled upon the Silver Millennium while trying to search for their original world of origin.
You really want them to go into a frothing rage? Let Terran mages tinker with Al-Hazard era Lost Logia and get results. The main thing that the TSAB doesn't understand is that Terran mages have turned magic into an art form. True, it has some hard rules which are dangerous, extremely so, to violate, but their magic is much more natural in the sense that they approach it as an inherent gift which is meant to be used.Yeah, I was speaking of it from the TSAB point of view. Namely that trying to classify it as a single system is largely their way of going "fuck it, we're done with this shit!" I feel like many spell researchers and scientists tend to get reduced to either tears or frothing rage when trying to work on the Earth "system." So they clump it into one system, do subtypes to differentiate the various 'schools', and try to ignore it after that.
"You can't do that! Spells take massive amounts of mathematical calculations. Magic circles are direct visual displays of those calculations! This is why people have Devices and spells display magic circles!"
"Really? Well, Reducto. Huh, that target seems to disagree with you."
"Aasdfngnlasdjtlkdtkldsfm!"
No, Belka is much later than Al-Hazard. There isn't much about the histories involved in MGLN, so we have a lot of ways to fill in the blanks. In this case, Belka is relevant as it is the major power which immediately preceded the TSAB, which is still working on picking up the pieces nearly a century after being founded.To be fair, I gave the approximate time frame it fell. I never mentioned how long it had stood by that point. Hm. The Warring Ages are guessed to have been from ~1000 years prior to a few hundred years prior. So if we place 0074 as 2014, then the Warring Ages would've likely started around 990-1020. So Al-Hazard would've been around ~15,000+ years? ... Unless by "stumbled upon the Silver Millennium" you mean its remains, in which case never mind! Or if you've extended the length of the Belkan Empire/Warring Ages, etc.
Something like a planet being destroyed in our own solar system would have been noticed, even back then. Telescopes did exist which allowed them to find planets past the Asteroid Belt, even if it was only to confirm something was there. Unless B7R was on a completely different orbital path off the plane of the Ecliptic which made it hard to find as Earth would have had to been in the right place at the right time to see it.Other dates based on 0074 = 2014: 1920 would be the approximate point that the Saint King Unification War ended. Given that the SKUW went centuries, I'd probably place the start point around the 1600-1700s. The destruction of Belkan Priority One Strategic Resource Planet B7R would've likely been in the late 1700s or 1800s at the latest, with the loss of the world and the corruption of the Tome into the Book of Darkness starting to spell the end of the unification efforts. And speaking of bodies left in ruins... yeah, there are mage corpses scattered throughout the asteroid belt whose bodies couldn't be recovered during the fighting or prior to B7R's destruction. TSAB has had ships stop in once every year or two to scan sections to try to recover bodies since the bureau formed.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
The exact date, let alone the year, of Olivie's death was never established, but it is implied that it was at least a couple of centuries prior to the events of StrikerS."The New Calendar (新暦 Shinreki) is the calendar adopted on Mid-Childa after the end of the Saint King Unification War, replacing the Old Calendar. It has since become a universal time scale in all TSAB-administrated worlds. Apparently, it uses the same month progression and lengths as the Gregorian calendar and it is therefore assumed that one Mid-Childan year corresponds to one Earth year in length."
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
Actually, apparently in ViVid (chp 6) it was mentioned that it was ~100 years since Ingvalt failed to protect Olivie. Since ViVid is set in 0079, then it would be around 20 years prior to the new calendar that the war ended. But hm, I did mess up Ix's time frame, though I could say that her being in hibernation has no bearing on the use of Mariage against Saint King forces.The exact date, let alone the year, of Olivie's death was never established, but it is implied that it was at least a couple of centuries prior to the events of StrikerS.
It's more that we're stretching things. Now, we can keep it in the Sol System, but how about as a Kuiper Belt Object. Far enough out that it wouldn't have been noticed and perhaps Astronomers noted a flash of light that quickly faded and mistook for a nova? Or as a debris field on a radically different orbit which is why it hasn't been noticed yet?B7R died where it did because the first Asteroid Belt objects were discovered in 1801 (Ceres) onward. So it had to have died before that point. And I think I took your "more like the Hundred Years War" too literally and shortened the SKUW. At least we have two extremes for possibilities now, worst case.
Even more, many pilots love the opportunity to show off and so many do hop into one of these when they have the time and opportunity. Even better, the kids get a chance to meet a real pilot who shows them some "tricks" to use when they hop in.Kids get to have fun playing with it, adults get to try out how it works, and when a Pilot steps in and uses their own sim profile out of the list... jaws drop.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
The thing is, while many of the aspects outside of it being a simulator that works off of verbal commands for the general public to play with are not advertised, it's not exactly a secret that this allows the MSO to ID potential pilots. Interestingly enough, the entire thing is also a means for the MSO to look in on non-magical alternatives, some of which have begun to bear fruit. The FORTRESS system, resulting from these developments, is a defensive system that does not need a magical pilot to operate, but also suffers from several technical limitations.At some point I mentioned that old VCPs were turned into museum exhibits or simulators. Many of the obsolete simulators were modified to run off power instead of mostly magic. These modified simulators were given to various museums and so forth around the world. The Smithsonian has a Gen 1 and a Gen 2 simulator at an expansion from the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center. The UK has a simulator at the Imperial War Museum (or maybe Bovington... who would win the argument on what a ride counted as?). Kubinka in Russia received two simulators, as well as a new, larger location. The Canadian War Museum got one. The Tank Museum at Saumar, France got a separated add-on for MSO exhibits along with a simulator. So on. Others are made 'mobile exhibits' that travel around to various cities around the world.
The simulators only have sim data for units that used that model VCP. So Team Senshi would be available to pilot "as" in either, but someone that was only using Gen 3 VCPs would not appear. Unit White Devil does not appear in either simulator, though Gen 2 simulators do have "Unit Takamachi" profiles (because White Devil was using a Gen 3 VCP during the Pluto Incident). There are modifications so magic attacks can be selected verbally to activate and so forth. The part that's advertised is being able to "pilot" the simulators without needing to be a magic user, and not the part where the magic powered aspects are still operational as well. It's a good way to ID potential pilots out of the people that try out the simulator. And since it does still track/use the magic, magic users tend to get better scores from the simulator. Kids get to have fun playing with it, adults get to try out how it works, and when a Pilot steps in and uses their own sim profile out of the list... jaws drop.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
Wouldn't it flow a little better to refer to Pilot Leaders and Commanders as "Squadron Leaders" and "Combat Group Commanders" or something? Like all the MSs stationed in/assigned to one area, say, Western Europe, are referred to as a Squadron, and then the Squadrons assigned to a larger area, such as all of Europe, would be a "Combat Group." So you would have the Western Europe Squadron and the Europe Combat Group, or something like that.Pilots: Pilot, Pilot Leader, Pilot Commander
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
From his new fic Long Night of the HarvestDon't forget: Mass Effect is powered by magic space rocks. Evangelion is powered by Your Mom.
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