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Re: Starship "Suffren" and earth politics of the Lego future
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:33:05 GMT
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Hey, nice work. I also really like the fighter designs, you have some
great-looking models there. I can't wait until the Suffren is complete.
What I really like, however, is the background setting you're giving all
your space stuff! :) It has always bugged me a little how most futuristic
sci-fi shows (notably Star Trek) just sort of pretend that politics don't
exist any more in the future. I love how you've made that an integral part
of your building (e.g., the Suffron is a French destroyer starship, the
Danish build good fighters, etc).
I'm working out something like that for my own space MOC, the Nautilus. She
belongs to the Canadian Lego Space Command, and I have some story ideas
sketched out for joint Japanese/Canadian and French/Canadian space
operations. International politics are just as complex in my Lego future as
in the present day, and I think that makes things more interesting (and also
adds possibilities for lugnet'ers to create some sort of SpaceWorld
someday).
The Nautilus is set in roughly the 22nd century. Contact has been made with
several alien races, and several nations have established extra-solar
colonies. Collectively, an Earth Council (replacing the long-defunct UN),
in which all nations may have representation, conducts most diplomatic
policies regarding the defense of Earth. Other trade and policies are
conducted bilaterally between Earth and Alien nations. It's kind of like
when the New World was discovered and colonized.
--
Paul Davidson
www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars
www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News
Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message
news:39056F55.4CE3D7C2@pilot.msu.edu...
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Well, I finally have a mini-page up for _Suffren_. It contains much
> backstory, so page down to the bottom half if you need either the links
> for the old command module shots or the thumbnails/image links to the
> "new stuff" and don't want to wade. In the future I'll break it up into
> a page-tree, but for now this is how it works for me. (Oh, yeah, I'm
> lazy too.)
>
> What I've added:
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> -Pictures of the two competing fighter designs and a little bit of quick
> and dirty backstory on them;
> -Backstory on _Suffren_'s own design and construction;
> -Pictures of the (mostly-completed) fighter module, which will be
> mounted ventrally on the finished ship; it launches two of the nifty
> little one-man AMX fighters I designed from each side. The finished
> ship will (God willing) have two such modules, one abaft the other, and
> connected by docking rings.
>
> In the future I'll add photos of other modules, pictures of the revised
> command module (I rebuilt it so the front panel comes off for access to
> the bridge, put a conspicuous tricolour on the upper hull, added
> anti-fighter light weapons around the module, and installed the FuCon
> main armament), and perhaps even a few shots of our bridge crew. And,
> of course, when the ship's ready for launch, _Suffren_ will appear in
> all her assembled glory.
>
> The address, of course:
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> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/suffren.html
>
> Enjoy--comments, suggestions, un-stale bagels, poodle dogs, orange
> sweatsocks, and "Have a Nuclear Day" buttons are welcomed.
>
> best,
>
> Lindsay
>
> PS: I hope Pat will forgive me for citing/linking his
> brand-spankin'-new fighter as a "nightmare" for my growing destroyer.
> ;)
>
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