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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 09:51    Post subject: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hey Everyone!

Hope all is well. I was reading through the House Davion Book and was amused to stumble upon the
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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 09:58    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

"... the"... ?????
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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 10:02    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

You know, "the"!

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 12:08    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

"the" suspense is killing me!!!!

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 12:21    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hmm...that's strange I could have sworn that the rest of my post was written. Oh well.

My point was this: when reading the House Davion book, I was amused enough to find a merc unit called "The Fighting Urukhai." (Their emblem is a white hand no less!)

I guess my query, was if anybody had any other pop culture references in btech.

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 12:41    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Sure the merc unit that had a really familar coyote as their sign, then there is Team Bonazi, the whole collection thing of the Irreuglars...

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 19:41    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

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On 2002-12-14 12:21, Ghost Writer wrote:
Hmm...that's strange I could have sworn that the rest of my post was written. Oh well.
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The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago, except I KNOW that my post was completely written, and it cut off about 2/3rds of it. And I had to rewrtie it, and of course it wasn't nearly the same.


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On 2002-12-14 12:21, Ghost Writer wrote:
My point was this: when reading the House Davion book, I was amused enough to find a merc unit called "The Fighting Urukhai." (Their emblem is a white hand no less!)

I guess my query, was if anybody had any other pop culture references in btech.

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Just reread the history parts of the HOuse SOurce books, lots of things are very similar to actual history of earth, not just names. Unfortunately, I can;t think of anything in particular, and my books are on their way to my new home in Virginia.

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 21:23    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Well, it's from a novel, not a sourcebook, but there's a scene in "Black Dragon" I believe (Commancho's Caballeros) where a Yakuza mechwarrior stomps on the Yak boss who killed her father, with her mech. This after proclaiming who she was. Later, her lover (an upper level ISF agent,who makes pro-kurita movies) says something like: It was beautiful, but if you had only said "my name is ....., you killed my father, prepare to die"

A blatent reference to "The Princess Bride" of course!

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PostPosted: 14-Dec-2002 21:25    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Oh yeah, don't ever forget Rhonda Snord's T-shirt made famous on the cover of "Cranston Snord's Irregulars" sourcebook:

ELVIS IS KING!

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PostPosted: 15-Dec-2002 00:40    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

Well, people do like to use names from old mythology and such. It`s not far-fetched that some places in the Btech universe have oddly familiar names. Although the planet 'A Place' could have a better name.

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PostPosted: 15-Dec-2002 02:11    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

isent that between someplace and overhere?

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PostPosted: 15-Dec-2002 02:30    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

And not far from Dustball, IIRC.

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PostPosted: 15-Dec-2002 04:35    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

And if you notice, there are more than a few planets in Btech with names that are associated with places in Texas. I've always thought the Btech got started here in Texas but I may be confusing them with the Amarillo Design Bureau and Star Fleet Battles.
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PostPosted: 15-Dec-2002 11:09    Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture Reply to topic Reply with quote

There was a refrence somewhere to a character from a series of D&D novels written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

I think it was Kitara, or something like that. Have to check the books.
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