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==About Me==
 
==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|Technical Readout: 3050 (2nd edition)]] in my local games shop. At this point I realized that this universe was a tabletop game for the first time!
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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!
  
I have been knocking around Sarna since about Feb 2007 and even after all that time I am no article writer. I mostly add in small details to existing articles or create stubs that link things together. I am pretty sure some of the admins hate me for the way I work but it is just how my brain works.
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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 2003 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) and the [[2019 Clan Invasion crowdfunding campaign]] (no. 2,863). Mercenaries number 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 in 2019 CGL have not only reversed direction but seem to be pushing BT back towards greatness.
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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 1c.jpg|Edit Count (15,000)]]<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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==Projects I am undertaking==
 
'''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.
 
**Mongoose - In Progress
 
**Nova Cat - In Progress
 
**Sea Fox - In Progress
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Add in new Rasalhague Bloodnames/Dragoon Honor names
 
**Ghost Bear new Rasalhague Bloodnames
 
**Stone Lion
 
**Wolf Dragoon Honor names
 
*'''Phase 3''' - Fact checking
 
**Separate lineages
 
**ChiLi / Chi-Li, need to check correct JF name with writers.
 
 
'''[[BattleTechWiki:Project Military Commands|Project Military Commands]]'''
 
This is a huge and likely never ending project to have at least a stub for ever combat command ever mentioned.
 
*'''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.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - Create articles for all game expansions
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Datamine the Dark Age novels
 
*'''Phase 3''' - Datamine the various profile cards
 
 
'''[[User:Dmon/Project House|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 House Characters to nation state categories. (Completed 14/11/17)
 
*'''Phase 1a''' - Migrate Solaris characters to games specific category. (Completed 03/0418)
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Upgrade all character articles to include Infobox.
 
*'''Phase 3''' - Create noble house articles and start trying to pull threads together.
 
 
'''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.
 
*'''Phase 1''' - House keeping, tidy up the Video Game section and add resource pages.
 
*'''Phase 2''' - Datamine older video games for fluff bits.
 
*'''Phase 3''' - Datamine Battletech Video Game when it comes out.
 
*'''Phase 4''' - Datamine MechWarrior 5 Mercs when it comes out.
 
  
 
==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]]
 
* [[Special:SpecialPages|Special Pages]]
 
* [[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
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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]]
  
* [[Help:CreatePlanetArticle]]
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===Human Sphere searchable PDF map===
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'''Lifted from [[User:Volt|Volts]] page since he deleted everything.'''
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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)
  
==Notes==
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HlORxk-9keO8qSj1wditPLLZjSh9tc1g/view?usp=sharing 900LY x 900LY Map]
*Conflicts
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0EK2bqsw3EqXjsAeJ3WG1wu1GOUhWDd/view?usp=sharing 2010LY x 2010LY Map]
[[User:Dmon/Conflicts]]
 

Latest revision as of 15:28, 17 March 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 2003 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) and the 2019 Clan Invasion crowdfunding campaign (no. 2,863). Mercenaries number 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 in 2019 CGL have not only reversed direction but seem to be pushing BT back towards greatness.

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)