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Well, this is a re-post to .announce since I didn't get any response the first time, And before I keep on going with this I need to know if people are interested! here's the original post:(URL) know there isn't much now, but I want to know if people (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story...
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(...) Hi Geordan I believe that poeple haven't replied before to your post simply because there is isn't enough of the story to make a fair judgement of how good it is. I really can't tell you if I want to hear the rest of the story or not becaue I (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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snip (...) Hi Bobby! Thanks for the reply... (...) Yeah, well, good point, I geuss I should post a little more of it before I go asking, I just want to know if people want to see more of it before I go making more. (...) Definitely have that! I've (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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more more i like it when people take time to do stories its a different way of using lego (diff from just building mocs) planning scenes, and plots and such (btw, typo in #99) ;-) -paul (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks, (...) Yep, I realized this just after I put it up, thanks for the heads up anyway though, I plan on fixing it up, and hopefully adding a new chapter tonight. Thanks again, -Geordan- ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.space)
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Okay... Lame history lesson ON: The Byzantine empire was an Eastern Roman/Greek empire. The capital was Constantinople, which is now modern-day Istanbul, capital of Turkey (an Islamic country). Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. The Byzantine (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Turkey (an Islamic country). Whoops, I made an error. Istanbul is not the currect captial of Turkey; Ankara is. Sorry. Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hi Mladen, thanks for voicing your opinion, (...) Yes I learned all about that last year... (...) It's my own made up story, this story isn't meant to be based on any thing that I think even *might* happen, The reason for the name was simply (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No prob. ;-) (...) Islamic (...) Army" (...) that I (...) sounded (...) logical (...) middle (...) make (...) No, of course not! I just wanted to hear your "explanation" or reasoning. The "New Byzantine Army" still, IMHO, is a *BIG* misnomer. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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snip (...) Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it, if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be appropriate to change it. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Great Job! Very entertaining, and I'm interested in seeing the rest. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I just now "read" (viewed?) the story so far. Has anyone else noticed that sometimes brickshelf loads vvvveeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyy (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks Tim! Sorry I didn't (...) Well get used to it, there's lot's of it...=^D But minifigs must have an (...) heehee, :-D (...) Thanks again, -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Don't change a story because people have negative feelings about it. Post disclaimers if you wish, but unless the story itself is somehow inciting people, don't change it. Even if people criticise the story itself, to do so violates your own (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Man Mladen, give the guy a break. Sure, the geography is off, his story will have nothing to do with the Byzantine Empire, or the radicals which want to recreate it, or its old enemyis which still exist (ex: Bulgaria). But guess what, it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium
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(...) Not so much the Turks but the Ottomans under Mehmet II (the Conqueror). Theirs was the real administrative revolution that made the final conquest of Byzantium by the Turks possible. IMHO, anyways, given that the Anatolian hinterland had been (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, I really liked the *name*. I didn't see your explanation for the formulation of the subdivision itself. My suggestion, if it's even possible, would be to reformulate the backstory of its composition and make it, say, an agglomeration (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's an interesting point. An alternate universe where either a) the Byzantines held out or b) the Byzantine leadership took the reins of Islam--like Christian emperors of Rome--and married Islam to the Greco-Roman tradition? Then you might (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Scratch that "recommendation." That's not what I meant to put across--rather that if anything *had* to be changed, I'd change something else before the name. I really do like the name. (Thus the :D...) But again, it's your universe, and so (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As most other people are saying, its your world, your story. Do what you want with it. Why does the "New Byzantine Army" *have* to have anything to do with the original empire? They could just be trying to make a connection to an ancient and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So take me back to Constantinople No you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. I seem to recall my mother singing that silly song in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Neat. I wonder what play it was to use They Might Be Giants songs... Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul. (I'll confess just about my favorite (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually the song is much older than They Might Be Giants. I can't seem to find the original credits at the moment. I'll try to find something later on. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Original credit given as "written by J. Kennedy and N. Simon, published by Chappell & Co. ASCAP"...that from the liner notes of "Severe Tire Damage" (couldn't find my copy of "Flood" anywhere)...dated 1953 according to (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story...
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I updated the background story, and gave a reason for the conflict, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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