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  1. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Battletech Junkyard
    Extras: Heat Sink Reference

    I have some other BT stuff in the pipeline including a more conventional BattleTech Isekai that I started over the holidays last year (for a friend who has no experience with the setting) but for the sake of convenience I am cross posting the following from Tactical Operations for ease of...
  2. Imperator Pax

    General chat thread

    lol. Its October shake it off, go down to the corner cafe get a bagel and some fresh pressed orange juice
  3. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    This was actually supposed to be an update in the 1924 calendar since a couple updates hence Xian's Self Loading Rifle derived from the Lewis's gas piston system (and thus Lewis's aborted Assault Phase Rifle) shows up though it doesn't reach full maturation until a decade later as a result of...
  4. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: May 1925

    May 1925 The cadre had not always agreed with Cao Kun... but the reality was that long ties had made him a known factor. In the way the Beiyang had operated even going back to when Yuan Shikai had been precedent Cao Kun had been a steady fixture. He had opposed the senseless haying off into the...
  5. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Xian's 1PDR is 37mm but its as has been noted largely kept in service on inertia despite them wanting to replace it since like 1916 due to how many they have because they're cheap and the common shell being reliable (manufacturing) so yeah, Xian going to smaller cartridges for flatter trajectory...
  6. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: May 1925

    May 1925 As was typical of basically every morning for the past decade there were stacks of papers overflowing across the desk. They'd gotten to the point where they just came packaged up in what amounted to a crate. Shanghai was shook, and their quaking was most visible in the hand wringing of...
  7. Imperator Pax

    General chat thread

    Certainly. But some of these you can figure out based on which words have a common root or having context, but others its well lets cram words together until you need more than one breath to say them is where the English speakers happily tell you to go dunk your head because yes Germany is very...
  8. Imperator Pax

    General chat thread

    I more or less had the Germanic language family's habit of shared words or words sharing the same roots / mutual intelligibility discussion last night funnily enough. ' Brother, Sister, Father come to mind. Its really only as German began its introduction into various technical vocabulary (so...
  9. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: Early May 1925

    Early May 1925 Newspapers talked mostly of Europe... or of New York, or Chicago or the Californian ports. The Cadre international dealings were grounded in the flow of goods, and capital. It was the truth, they had started as businessmen. Needing engines, and boilers, and things to build...
  10. Imperator Pax

    Stargate: Dark Mirror
    Threadmarks: Chapter 2 Part 2

    Chapter 2 Part 2 He had closed his eyes to rest... even then his mind raced and he was uncomfortable where he lay in the sleeping bag facing what lay ahead of him in the face of the invasion until some time after midnight he'd fallen asleep thinking about things. The tunneling crystals were safe...
  11. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Regarding the end of 1924 and politics. I'm putting this up rather than including it in the end note for May of 1925, but I am going to touch on the significance of Shan's recommendation at the very end of the section. For basically the last ten years (from Yuan Shikai up until Cao Kun is...
  12. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: October 23rd 1924

    October 23rd 1924 The war had eclipsed Double Ten day, but even if it hadn't the holiday had meant increasingly less in the north's urban districts of note. With Beiyang units fighting each other especially in cities with or formerly with republican sentiments there seemed little reason to...
  13. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    So with Italy, its the breakdown between the disconnect between Mussolini prioritizing the Navy especially (you see this problem with Japan also) in regards to oil and steel production, but also Italian procurement didn't keep up with doctrine, due to how Fiat and the other big company I don't...
  14. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: October 1924

    October 1924 Most of the papers were busy down south, especially because Shanghai was on the frontline of the fighting while the fighting in the north was largely tied up around the great wall. War correspondents wrote of the fighting between the fractured cliques in the same exaggerated...
  15. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Battletech Junkyard

    Future Material at somepoint The thing about writing SI fics is I can bitch about stuff thats Work In Progress that still isn't ready to go up, so I figured I would cross post some information from there and talking about stuff that will eventually probably get written out or posted in some...
  16. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I apologize about the formatting but this started in PMs, where I was asked about corruption and the political power of the gentry and basically the following is the Gentry is complicated by regional concerns and priorities. The power (and what policies they support) of the gentry is going to...
  17. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Xian's venerable 1 PDR is a 37mm fast firing gun, as for the 65mm its a weird caliber the French and Italians did stuff with it but its in the middle between smaller calibers and then stuff like France's preference for the 75 and well the 65 didn't have the much time to come into its own before...
  18. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I mean this from a strategic perspective... to be sure I am certain even though I don't have sources handy to look for evidence that there were people in both the northern and southern power structures who were like 'we have to have battleships as symbols of national prestige' regardless of the...
  19. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    The Beiyang government doesn't have the money for the navy it has, in part because even though CiCi gets trotted out as worst offender she was hardly the only one raiding the naval budget and the problem with a Battleship is that China doesn't really have the infrastructure to support them. I...
  20. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: October 1924

    October 1924 The paper was aheadache but not unique. Cao Kun had done a lot to discredit the legitimacy of the office of the president of China... only an idiot would have argued otherwise... but now the legitimacy was questioned further as the battle in the north started to shift. This year's...
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