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This is one sample of a side-project I've been working on for my comic [link] 6-Commando. It's the "tactical handbook," which is a place where I've been keeping all the worldbuilding for my story confined. There are four main sections to the book: one on the general outline of the world and its history, one about the United Nations Alliance and its military, one about the Federated Socialist Republics, and one about the South American Coalition. I hope to print it at some point, but for now it's just a good place to keep all my special comic-world stuff codified, so I can make the comic work consistently.This is from the section on the UNA military, namely the Armored forces TOE. The story takes place in an alternate version of the 1990's in central Africa. The Second World War never happened, and the United Nations (the "West") has been fighting a long series of brushfire wars with the Federated Socialist Republics (the "Soviets") for close to eighty years. Though they have advanced weapons and equipment, their world is in many other ways incredibly backward, with very little in the way of social or economic development, and some things like satellites and advanced information technology (like fiberoptics, wireless data, the Internet) have simply never occurred to them. Atomic bombs are a recent invention, developed by the Germans in the 1970's; there are a lot more of them in their world than in ours.
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Whatβs TOE stand for?
Whats a brushfire war?
Did you draw inspiration from fallout?
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1)Table of Organization and Equipment;
2) a low-intensity conflict in a third country not contiguous to any of the primary combatants;
3) not really.
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Ahhh okay itβs just the power armour reminds me of the T-40 a bitΒ
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what type of weapon is the SPAAG units in the anti air group using?
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It's a Sikkei "Sunfire" 1.1-inch Free-Electron Pulse Laser, with a Nordyne "Airguard" RTO Tracking Radar.
--M
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Interesting Setting. Though....Kind of weird, that they did not have invented nuclear weapons earlier, like somewhere in the late 40s or 50s since the the theory behind it was allready known in the late 30s and satellite Technology or at least space-flight has allready been theorized in the late 20s like in the book 'Die Rakete zu den PlanetenrΓ€umen' by Herman Oberth.
And I guess the UNA is a successor of the League of Nations, that was either reformed or broke apart. ^^
Still a really cool
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It is. It kind of happened instead of the League, as a result of a really bad British-French failure in the interventions in the Russian Revolution.
As to the technology, I think it wasn't so much that they didn't know how to do all those things, but they regard them the same way we regard fusion or antimatter power or interstellar travel - they CAN be done, but why bother, when we could be building more tanks, armored cars, guns, planes and armored suits? It never occurred to them to find war-winning weapons because their entire notion of war is as an endless stalemate. Their goal has become holding each other in check, not defeating the enemy. The incidents in the story basically destroy that theory.
--M
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Yeah, I see this now, since I read through your entire Comic plus pretty much all the comments. They pretty much seem only interested to take over the other side, even when at peace. Something like peacefull coexistence does not really fit in their way of thinking it seems ^^ Their average thinking still seems to be pretty much late 19th / early 20th century style.
What I wanted to know about this world here, in what shape was it before the global nuclear Exchange, I mean in an environmentally way? Since nuclear power seem to be a bit more widespread, like the nuclear powered Rumblers, I guess they would have gigantic piles of nuclear waste lieing around? Were there even some sorts of environmental-movements? I mean since they think a lot like in the early 20th where lack of ressources was never really a big deal, did they ever think about pollution / end of certain ressources and so forth?
Sorry when I bug you about such stupid things, I am just curious about the world you created.
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It's not stupid, and I'm glad to talk about my comic.
Nuclear (in their parlance, "Atomic") power is a military item in their world. So, you have atomic powerplants and batteries in things like Rumblers, submarines and military bases, but the civilian world is fueled by coal, oil, natural gas and hydroelectricity. Their world is a lot dirtier than ours as a result. There is a branch of their small but vocal anti-war movement that is environmentalist in nature, but it's nowhere near like the powerful bureaucratic lobby that we have in our world's Western countries. They're basically dismissed as kooks, and the main body of popular opinion is that the first priority is to "defeat the enemy," even though nobody really believes that to be possible, either.
--M
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I see, so to say it briefly, compared to our world a lot more conservative in pretty much every way.
What I found interesting that the French Government did not flee to French Guyana in South America, establishing their exile government there, since it is their largest oversea-departement.
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I'd use the word "polarized" instead of "conservative." Both the East and the West, the FSR and the UNA, are committed to their ideologies in a very major way, and their Cold War has had a much more lasting and malignant effect on their world view than ours did. Whereas, in our world, we in the West reacted to Vietnam with a major sea-change in policy, they had four Indochina Wars of increasing brutality, spanning the 1950's and 60's, but without a major change in policy or public opinion. Likewise, the FSR has been bogged down in "bear traps" throughout Central and South Asia since the 1940's, and have in the same way simply hardened their position. Operation Scimitar, one of the key events in the story's background, involved a very brutal desert war fought between the FSR and the Arab League (and, later, the United States and Canada), and was as ferocious as the real-world Afghan War of 1979-1989, and yet many veterans of the conflict are in Africa now doing the same thing all over again. Major Rucker, one of the main characters, is one of them - he has a metal plate in his head as a result of an injury in Scimitar - what exactly happened may or may not be in the comic later on, so I won't go into it.
Still, you can see what I'm getting at. Only very small differences in public sentiment can have very drastic repercussions for the world as a whole.
--M
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added to Sketches and concepts in Sci-fi Archives
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Are those meant to be the officers that are saluting?
If so, that's a little bit backwards, isn't it?
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If you assume you're the Secretary-General, then no. Otherwise, yes.
But having a lineup of guys saluting was not as effective graphically.
--M
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Yeah, I can't think of an obvious alternative, either. I'm just being a pain.
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