Cianbro has an excellent health plan.

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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Ah well.

Actually, you know what I found just as interesting in its own way? Saavak and G's reactions in comparing their "post movie 2" memories of the Enterprise command crew with the younger "TOS" DC's they are interacting with back in the UF verse.

Yeah, Phil came up with that. I don't recall offhand if it's Sindarin or Quenya. In the UF universe, the various modern Alven languages are descended from the ones recorded by Tolkien.

(Amusingly, the thing Maia says at the end is from Tolkien even in-story; it's a quote from The Return of the King. But then, in the UF universe, The Lord of the Rings is a historical text, describing the pre-Ćsir history of Alfheim, thinly disguised as fantasy literature.)

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The original root of the benediction was actually a line uttered by Faramir in "The Two Towers" when he finds Sam and Frodo on the outskirts of Gondor/Mordor - it sums up his reason for why he still fights, to defend his homeland. The elvish translation is in Sindarin, extracted from searching various and sundry Tolkien language sites (often in other human languages!) for something that had the right "Fit."

It also appears in a chorus in the film version score in "Fellowship of the Rings", during the Departure of Boromir, which probably served as the inspiration for finding the rest of the quote. Things are a bit vague from that time, it was like a fire in my brain making Reunion and its additional side stories. ^_^;

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "If you want to read more, check out The Fellowship of the Wordsmiths, which has provided a lot of the resources for the Tolkien touches in Mars Division..."

As it happens, there's no officially supported way to do it otherwise in DCForum. (If the server the image is on has a CGI handler attached, you can fake it out by giving it a nonexistent CGI command, like appending "?x" to the URL, but for whatever reason, DCF always inlines straight image URLs.)

>Apologies for any inconsistant details. Referancing for coolant
>jackets and neurohelmets seems somewhat sparse, and I don't trust
>Mechcommander's interpretation very highly.

Not to worry; there are a lot of different models anyway - unless they're part of a unit that's buying equipment in bulk, it's rare to find two MechWarriors with the same gear.

--G.
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You're right that making a fold drive big enough for the ZCDS would be incredible. I'd argue that what the actually did to bring it to its present location is actually a greater feat of engineering...

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

No, no it was not.

>You're right that making a fold drive big enough for the ZCDS would be
>incredible. I'd argue that what the actually did to bring it to its
>present location is actually a greater feat of engineering...

It was certainly the greater feat of spacemanship.

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Considering the effort required to make sure that hundreds of spaceship fold drives were perfectly synchronized, then add to that the precise calculations needed to plop that sphere around another star, potentially thousands of light years away without impinging upon the orbits of the innermost two worlds? I doubt you'll see a greater feat of spacemanship than that for some time to come.

Travellers actually belongs with a different plotline which is still under development. Eventually, once the rest of those minis are out, there'll be another omnibus encompassing, in effect, the origin story of the Mars Division, and it'll be in that one.

And at some unrelated point, depending on rate of accumulation, there'll most likely be another like Omnibus 1 for the stories that aren't part of any given over-arc, like Saya and Mysteron.

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And we have THE WINNER! :)

Yep, that's where Therése's physical design (and aliased first name) came from. :)

Congrats, you get the No-Prize for being the first reader to catch and post about it!

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That's pretty much why. When the WDF and the Autobots were working out the details of their alliance, one of the considerations was what WDF units would be assigned to help garrison Cybertron. A Zentraedi Guards unit was an obvious choice because of the scale, though there was also, at the height of the pre-Exile WDF's presence on Cybertron, a Destroid unit posted to the vicinity of Iacon.

--G.
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