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Ghost Writer
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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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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 09:58 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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"... the"... ?????
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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 10:02 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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You know, "the"! 
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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 12:08 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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"the" suspense is killing me!!!!
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Ghost Writer
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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 12:21 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 12:41 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 19:41 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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Horhiro
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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 21:23 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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Horhiro
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| Posted: 14-Dec-2002 21:25 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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| Posted: 15-Dec-2002 00:40 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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| Posted: 15-Dec-2002 02:11 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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isent that between someplace and overhere?
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| Posted: 15-Dec-2002 02:30 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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And not far from Dustball, IIRC.
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Gunslinger Patch
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| Posted: 15-Dec-2002 04:35 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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| Posted: 15-Dec-2002 11:09 Post subject: RE: Btech and Pop Culture |
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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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