User:BrokenMnemonic

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I started playing BattleTech back in the very early 90s, although I can't say with hand on heart whether it was the Crescent Hawks' Inception that lead me to the Fourth Succession War Atlas and BattleTech in general, or whether the Fourth Succession War Atlas led me to the Crescent Hawks' Inception, but between the two I ended up buying a fair number of the sourcebooks before heading off to university. It was at university that I had the chance to play pretty regularly, and I ended up running a mercenary campaign for a group of players for a couple of years. It was at university that I heard about the Clans from players who had more access to shops selling BattleTech material than I did, and my initial reactions to the introduction of the Clans were... well, negative. I'd probably have reacted better if there'd been a balancing mechanism introduced at the time, but BV didn't exist from what I remember, and even back in 1994 there were munchkins on the internet who liked to boast about how their hyper-tuned Clan ERML/LPL Mechs were awesome and they were the best players in the known universe. It's because of that I found myself preferring to play in the 3005-3039 era, although I ended up mostly reading and not playing when I left university and didn't have regular access to a gaming group.

In recent years I've come back into contact with BattleTech and the new timeline largely through contacts in local gaming clubs and the Army Wargames Association; I don't get the chance to play much, but I realised I was enjoying finding out what had been happening in the timeline, and with various sourcebooks being discounted online from BattleCorps and DriveThruRPG in .pdf format I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I'm not overly comfortable with the Jihad timeline, but I really like that past eras such as the War of 3039, the 31st century Ronin Wars, Marik Civil War and Andurien Secession and more recently the Age of War and Reunification War are being developed in detail.

I've been quietly active on the CBT forums for a few months now, and I've seen repeated references to the BT wiki over there, so I've been ducking in here to read whenever someone talks about subjects I know little about. My work involves a certain amount of copy editing, and although I'm not a professional editor or copy editor I do have a reasonable eye for detail; I've found myself making some minor corrections to pages here to tidy up spelling, grammar, typos and the odd broken link, and I thought that it would probably be polite to actually create a profile here so I can be gripped if I'm stepping on any toes. I really like the idea of the BT wiki as a free resource for everyone from new players to old lags like myself, and while I don't have a great deal of spare time lately, I feel much less guilty about using the Wiki so much if I'm also helping a little with it. BrokenMnemonic 14:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Things I've Discovered Since Joining

• You can never have too many citations.
• Just when you think you've found all the releveant maps, another one will leap out to surprise you.
• Writing a complete article for a mercenary unit that's been around since the original House books takes about four hours.
• Finding all the references for a mercenary unit that's been around since the original House books takes about two days and involves a stack of books falling on you at least once.

Current Projects

• Burr's Black Cobras
• SLDF unit overview
• Project Planets stuff, to whit:

Outworlds Alliance worlds citations from Handbook: House Davion. So what happened to Dreadlord when I was setting the maps up? Baliggora and Onverwacht Provinces done. Capellan Confederation worlds citations from Handbook: House Liao, starting in 2366. Capellan Commonality, Duchy of Liao, Sarna Supremacy, Sian Commonwealth, St. Ives Mercantile League, Tikonov Grand Union, Periphery and Independent worlds done. Hi-res coloured maps for the mapping project. Rollis testbed article for Phase 4/5 of planet overhaul Mesartim testbed article for Phase 3 of planet overhaul

• Updated Star League Corps and Division records using Historical: Reunification War information based on the author's response to my question

• Use 4th Royal Infantry Division as template.

• Reunification War update, to whit:

Article on Operation UNION HOLD SLDF Officer Articles on: General Amos Furlough Update/create articles on FedSuns characters: FedSuns Ambassador Colonel Elias Pitcairn Update/create articles on DCMS units: 19th Galedon Regulars - how can this unit be active in the Reunification War, but formed in the 2nd Succession War? Spelling and grammar checks on V Corps Go through Outworlds Alliance war entries in House Davion (TFS), House Kurita (TDC), 1st ed Periphery, the Star League sourcebooks, cross-reference existing articles mentioned with additional citations Update Outworlds Alliance History article to incorporate post-Reunification War period and characters Outworlds Alliance Army of Occupation Draconis Combine Auxiliary Corps Ian Marik and children thereof Siblings of Marion Marik Crystalla Centralla and relatives Adam Buquoy (not looking forward to this one, given that Marion Marik took me 4 and a half hours) Outstanding MAF units: Canopian Cuirassiers - need answer from Hartford first First Fleet Second Fleet Buquoy's Bandits Owner History for worlds on p. 158-159 (only a few thousand...) Maps showing campaign by year VII Corps Reunification War history Post-RW Magistracy history piece Freebooter's War

Past Work

Edits I'm proud of include:

Military Units

• Able's Aces
• Avanti's Angels
• Always Faithful
• Bad Dream
• Battle Magic
• Crater Cobras - my go-to template for mercenary unit articles
• The Pitcairn Legion

Personalities

• Paul Marik - my go-to template for minor character articles

Images

• My map work on the Planets Project Reference Gallery

Outstanding "Ask The Writer/Developer" Questions That Relate To Sarna

• Historical: Reunification War - Mangor
• Historical: Reunification War - Zathras/Zatharas
• Historical: Reunification War - 5th Marik Militia and the Battle for Canopus
• Historical: Reunification War - Canopian Curiassiers
• 19th Galedon Regulars - conflicting formation/active dates between sources
• Relationship between the Illyrian Palatinate and the Star League
• Far Looker Taurian Concordat colony map discrepancies
• Star League Sourcebook naming error - two XVIII Corps

Answered "Ask The Writer/Developer" Questions That Relate To Sarna

• Wroclaw/Wrociaw naming clarification
• Historical: Reunification War - 3rd Regulan Hussars
• Link or not between the Magestrix Guard/Magistracy Guard and errors in timeline
• Error in the size of VII Corps (Star League)

Awards History

12 Jul 2011: Substantial Addition Award (Revanche) - Always Faithful
20 Jul 2011: Casual Edit Award (Frabby)
26 Jul 2011: Edits Award (100)
28 Jul 2011: Edits Award (200)
29 Jul 2011: Edits Award (300)
30 Jul 2011: Edits Award (400)
31 Jul 2011: All Purpose Award (Doneve) (Work done on planets)
31 Jul 2011: Edits AWard (500)
04 Aug 2011: Surreal Award (Revanche)
09 Aug 2011: Edits Award (1000)
09 Aug 2011: Vandal Cop Award (Frabby)
11 Aug 2011: Time In service Award (1 month)
17 Aug 2011: Vandal Cop Award (2nd ribbon) (Revanche)
18 Aug 2011: All Purpose Award (2nd Ribbon) (Revanche) (helping out a confused newbie)
21 Aug 2011: Edits Award (1500)
25 Aug 2011: All Purpose Award (3rd Ribbon) (Neufeld) (highlighting Documents category)
07 Sep 2011: Edits Award (2000)
28 Sep 2011: Vandal Cop Award (3rd Ribbon) (Mbear?)
11 Oct 2011: Time In Service Award (3 months)
12 Oct 2011: All Purpose Award (3rd Ribbon) (Doneve) (Historical: Reunification War updated to Outworlds Alliance planets)
10 Nov 2011: Good Article Award (Mbear) (The Pitcairn Legion)
25 Nov 2011: All Purpose Award (4th Ribbon) (Doneve) (Historical: Reunification War minor characters and articles)
11 Jan 2011 Time In Service Award (6 months) (backdated)
16 Jan 2012: Edits Award (4000)
19 Jan 2012: Random Act of Appreciation Award (ClanWolverine101) (Work on SLDF Brigades from Historical: Reunification War)