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==About Me==
 
==About Me==
I have been a fan of the universe for a long time. I am not sure what came first for me, MechWarrior 2 PC game or the Battletech cartoon but I was hooked. Mechwarrior 2 Mercs came next and then a gap for a couple of years and then I found TRO: 3050 (2nd edition) in my local games shop.... and away I went to the point that I have pretty much the entire collection of BT books now.
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I am not sure what came first for me, [[MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat]] Video Game or the [[BattleTech: The Animated Series]], at this point I had no idea how important this universe I had just stumbled across would become. [[MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries]] came next and then a gap for a couple of years and then I found [[Technical Readout: 3050 Revised]] in my local comic shop (circa '98). At this point I realized that this universe was a tabletop game for the first time!
  
For a lot of 2011 was spent taking a break from a lot of BattleTech and a lot of my other hobbies due to concentrating on starting my own business, now that that is up and running I am back and starting to get involved in things again (BT is my stress relief!).
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I found sourcing BattleTech books in the UK a slow and expensive process using my local (not very friendly) comic shop, it was about a decade before I discovered that said comic shop was situated five minutes walk from [[Ral Partha]]s european headquarters. [[MechCommander 2]] and [[MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries]] kept the torch burning until [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]] came out in 2002 and for the first time ever getting physical product became easy.
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I have been working on Sarna since Feb 2007, I was promoted to Admin in November 2019 having contributed about 30,000 edits to the wiki at the time. I backed the [[BattleTech (Video Game)|2018 Video Game]] (no. 23,284), the [[2019 Clan Invasion crowdfunding campaign]] (no. 2,863) and Mercenaries (no. 24,871).
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After accusing Catalyst Game Labs of mismanaging the IP in the wake of the collapse of [[BattleCorps]] in 2016 and release of the extremely shoddy [[Technical Readout: Succession Wars]] in 2017, I am incredibly happy to see that by 2019 CGL had not only reversed direction but with help from HBS and PGI had triggered what would become known as the "BattleTech Renaissance".
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Let the good times roll.
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==Current Project Jobs==
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* [[Project Planets]], Update Planet Infobox to new standard. [[:Category:Planets]].
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* [[User:Dmon/Project Stellar Cartography|Project Stellar Cartography]], Create redirects for moons. [[:Category:Moons]].
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* [[:Category:Systems with Undetermined Coordinates]]
  
 
==Awards==
 
==Awards==
 
<div id="awardsboard"><div id="awardsboardheader">Awards Board</div>
 
<div id="awardsboard"><div id="awardsboardheader">Awards Board</div>
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[[File:F CSA.jpg|Founder's Consistent Service Award]]
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[[File:F SEYA.jpg|Founder's Superior Editor of the Year Award (2018)]]<br />
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[[File:F HonMen.jpg|Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2019)]]
 
[[File:F HonMen.jpg|Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2012)]]
 
[[File:F HonMen.jpg|Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2012)]]
[[File:F HonMen.jpg|Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2011)]]
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[[File:F HonMen.jpg|Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2011)]]<br/>
[[File:VC 2bol.jpg|Vandal Cop Award, 3rd ribbon]]
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[[File:TireCont.png|Tireless Contributor Award, 1st ribbon]]
[[File:PS.jpg|Problem Solver Award, 1st ribbon]]<br />
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[[File:PS.jpg|Problem Solver Award, 1st ribbon]]
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[[File:VC 2bol.jpg|Vandal Cop Award, 3rd ribbon]]<br/>
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[[File:DA.jpg|Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
 
[[File:CE 1bol.jpg|Casual Edit Award, 2nd ribbon]]
 
[[File:CE 1bol.jpg|Casual Edit Award, 2nd ribbon]]
[[File:AP 1sol.jpg|All Purpose Award, 5th ribbon]]
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[[File:AP 2sol.jpg|All Purpose Award, 6th ribbon]]<br/>
[[File:RAA.jpg|Random Act of Appreciation Award, 1st ribbon]]
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[[File:RAA_2bol.jpg|Random Act of Appreciation Award, 3rd ribbon]]
[[File:EC3.jpg|Edit Count (10,000)]]<br />
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[[File:EC4 1c.jpg|Edit Count (75,000)]]
[[File:TIS5 10.jpg|Time in Service (10 years)]]
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[[File:TIS5 15.jpg|Time in Service (15 years)]]
[[File:DA.jpg|Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
 
  
 
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==Personal Project List==
 
===Project Bloodname===
 
Whilst I am not a huge fan of the Clans I see a need for all the bloodnames to have an article.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - Create as a minimum have a stub article for each Founding Bloodname.
 
**Burrock - In Progress
 
**Coyote - In Progress
 
**Goliath Scorpion - In Progress
 
**Hell's Horses - In Progress
 
**Ice Hellion - In Progress
 
**Mongoose - In Progress
 
**Nova Cat - In Progress
 
**Sea Fox - In Progress
 
**Snow Raven - In Progress
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Add in new Rasalhague Bloodnames/Dragoon Honor names
 
**Ghost Bear new Rasalhague Bloodnames
 
**Wolf Dragoon Honor names
 
*'''Phase 3''' - Fact checking
 
**Separate lineages
 
**ChiLi / Chi-Li, need to check correct JF name with writers.
 
===Project cannonized===
 
This is an idea I have had to possibly help people want to get involved in the wiki a bit more.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - Update all 2SSW Merc articles to reflect fan pic status
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Ask about Fan cannonization
 
 
===Project Commands===
 
This is a huge and likely never ending project to unearth all the most obscure commands and units imaginable.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - Update all Officer sections to Infobox
 
 
===Project Dark Age===
 
A lot of the Dark Age stuff has generally been ignored, I intend to start changing this. The CCG has more pages on the wiki that the Clicks game despite the huge success of the game. The internet is quite sparse on info about it in general.
 
 
===Project House===
 
Project house is an ongoing project to catalog the noble houses of the Inner Sphere as best I can. BattleTech is space feudalism but we do not actually see a lot of it going on beyond the 5 main houses. I am interested in the various Dukes, Counts and Barons.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - Migrate all of the '''Category: House xxxx Character''' profiles to nation state categories. (Completed 14/11/17)
 
*'''Phase 2''' - upgrade all character articles to include Infobox.
 
 
===Project Video Game===
 
The Video games are probably the biggest draw to the universe so the fact that the fluff on them is often quite bare bones is a bit tragic. I intend to beef up some of the fluff elements where I can.
 
  
 
==Tools==
 
==Tools==
* General stuff:
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===General stuff===
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* [[User talk:Dmon/To Do List|To Do List]]
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* [[https://characters.battletech.com/ KS canon characters]] for [[List of Clan Invasion Kickstarter Characters]]
 
* [[Help:Commonly used templates|Tags]]
 
* [[Help:Commonly used templates|Tags]]
 
* [[Special:UserScore|BTW Edit Counter]]
 
* [[Special:UserScore|BTW Edit Counter]]
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* [[Special:SpecialPages|Special Pages]]
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* [[BattleTechWiki:History/Article Count History|Article Count History]]
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* [[:Category:Announced Products|Announced]]
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* [[:Category:Sources under Moratorium|Moratorium]]
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* [[:Category:Considered for deletion|Considered for deletion]]
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* [[Special:NewPages|New pages]]
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* [[:Category:Articles with no sources|Articles with no sources]]
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* [[Special:WantedPages|Needed pages]]
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===Quickly Create===
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*Commands
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** [[Help:CreateCommandArticle|Military Command]]
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** <s>[[Help:CreateCommandArticle|House Command]]</s>
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** <s>[[Help:CreateMercenaryUnitArticle|Mercenary Command]]</s>
  
* Quickly Create - An Organization article:  
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*Universe
** [[Help:CreateBrigadeCommandArticle|Brigade Command]]
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** [[Help:CreateConflictArticle|Conflict Article]]
** [[Help:CreateCommandArticle|House Command]]
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** [[Help:CreateCorporationArticle|Corporation Article]]
** [[Help:CreateMercenaryUnitArticle|Mercenary Command]]
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** [[Help:CreateDynasticHouseArticle|Dynastic House Article]]
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** [[Help:CreateSystemArticle|System Article]]
  
==Notes==
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===Human Sphere searchable PDF map===
*Conflicts
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'''Lifted from [[User:Volt|Volts]] page since he deleted everything.'''
[[User:Dmon/Conflicts]]
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*PDF Maps made with Excel scatter chart and Rob Bovey's [http://www.appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm XY Chart Labeler Add-in], showing all identified systems as of February 2022. Maps are borderless so people can use them for whatever suits their fancy (would appreciate a shout-out to the SUCS in any case). Systems names use the SUCK convention (system names, including alternate names or name changes plus the year, instead of the more popular or Official Map names)
  
*Easter eggs
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HlORxk-9keO8qSj1wditPLLZjSh9tc1g/view?usp=sharing 900LY x 900LY Map]
[http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,27670.0.html|Forum EE thread.]
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0EK2bqsw3EqXjsAeJ3WG1wu1GOUhWDd/view?usp=sharing 2010LY x 2010LY Map]

Latest revision as of 18:41, 15 April 2024

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About Me

I am not sure what came first for me, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat Video Game or the BattleTech: The Animated Series, at this point I had no idea how important this universe I had just stumbled across would become. MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries came next and then a gap for a couple of years and then I found Technical Readout: 3050 Revised in my local comic shop (circa '98). At this point I realized that this universe was a tabletop game for the first time!

I found sourcing BattleTech books in the UK a slow and expensive process using my local (not very friendly) comic shop, it was about a decade before I discovered that said comic shop was situated five minutes walk from Ral Parthas european headquarters. MechCommander 2 and MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries kept the torch burning until MechWarrior: Dark Age came out in 2002 and for the first time ever getting physical product became easy.

I have been working on Sarna since Feb 2007, I was promoted to Admin in November 2019 having contributed about 30,000 edits to the wiki at the time. I backed the 2018 Video Game (no. 23,284), the 2019 Clan Invasion crowdfunding campaign (no. 2,863) and Mercenaries (no. 24,871).

After accusing Catalyst Game Labs of mismanaging the IP in the wake of the collapse of BattleCorps in 2016 and release of the extremely shoddy Technical Readout: Succession Wars in 2017, I am incredibly happy to see that by 2019 CGL had not only reversed direction but with help from HBS and PGI had triggered what would become known as the "BattleTech Renaissance".

Let the good times roll.

Current Project Jobs

Awards

Awards Board

Founder's Consistent Service Award Founder's Superior Editor of the Year Award (2018)
Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2019) Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2012) Founder's Honorable Mention Award (2011)
Tireless Contributor Award, 1st ribbon Problem Solver Award, 1st ribbon Vandal Cop Award, 3rd ribbon
Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon Casual Edit Award, 2nd ribbon All Purpose Award, 6th ribbon
Random Act of Appreciation Award, 3rd ribbon Edit Count (75,000) Time in Service (15 years)


Tools

General stuff

Quickly Create

Human Sphere searchable PDF map

Lifted from Volts page since he deleted everything.

  • PDF Maps made with Excel scatter chart and Rob Bovey's XY Chart Labeler Add-in, showing all identified systems as of February 2022. Maps are borderless so people can use them for whatever suits their fancy (would appreciate a shout-out to the SUCS in any case). Systems names use the SUCK convention (system names, including alternate names or name changes plus the year, instead of the more popular or Official Map names)