User talk:UomoUniversale

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-- New user message (talk) 16:51, 25 March 2024 (EDT)

Grey Death Legion

Hi UomoUniversale, thanks for your interest in updating our GDL page. Just a heads up that all info that's put on the page will need to be cited, or will risk being removed eventually. If you need more info, you can see here: Help:References. Thanks again for your help. Csdavis715 (talk) 22:27, 25 March 2024 (EDT)

Welcome from me, too!

Regarding the Gray Death Legion roster, for all we can determine from datamining the canon sources they had a lot of fluctuation with their spacecraft. In particular, they kept the names when swapping out ships. There were apparently two JumpShips named Invidious (of different classes) and the Phobos and Deimos were also originally Danais class merchanters and later replaced with Unions of the same name. I did a bit of research there back in the day when I wrote the articles on the individual vessels. (I do admit that there was probably author error behind the class change but canon is what it is now.) Frabby (talk) 02:50, 26 March 2024 (EDT)

Greetings All:

I've been enjoying reading the pages and thought to add some more info.

I'll have to figure out how to add the sources. They are all from the books.

Good point regarding the different types of ships. I remember the Gray Death sourcebook giving different jumpship types for the Invidious.

I suppose better explanation would be that they were different ships, with the same designation. It certainly explains why they kept the name Invidious for the Jumpship. A name more in keeping for a pirate ship.— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by UomoUniversale (talk • contribs) .

Question: Why did you remove the classic 3025 Gray Death Company description that came straight from the Gray Death Legion sourcebook? The two forces you put for 3025 you attribute to the Gray Death Legion sourcebook, but I don't believe they use any Wasps in that sourcebook...— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Phaz (talk • contribs) .

Apologies, I may have removed it by mistake. I was using the book trilogy. Decision at Thunder Rift and Mercenary Star. Wasps were the captured mechs from Trellwan. The Legion ended up in Galatea, with 5 mechs. Shadow Hawk, Locust, Stinger and two Wasps. I presume, Hassan was dispossessed at the time. Reasons why he took contract with the Legion. The Wasps ended up with the two other recruits who didn't have mechs.— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by UomoUniversale (talk • contribs) .

Timeline The Price of Glory (Sirius V, Helm) and A Rock and a Hard Place (Imbros and Valdis).

Are there any updates regarding the timeline between Helm and Valdis? A Rock and a Hard Place novella has dates from 15 September 3027 - 16 August 3028.

So It seems The Price of Glory novella Liberation of Sirius V and betrayal at Helm would have been in 3026-3027? UomoUniversale.

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The biggest thing I'm seeing on those GDL edits is that it seems you are attempting to organize and format the information, without the knowledge of how to do it either how you envision it should look or how to do so correctly on a wiki page. It happens! and the BTW staff are always around to help new users wanting to get things done. Here are some Help pages we have here to assist in getting things looking like you want:

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--Deadfire (talk) 12:58, 26 March 2024 (EDT)

abreviated ranks

Hey UomoUniversale,

Just wondering why you are changing the ranks in the Gray Death Legion article to abreviated ones?--Dmon (talk) 09:08, 25 April 2024 (EDT)

Hi:

I don't know of any real world unit that spells out their whole rank. That's my experience in the reserve forces and working with regular British army forces in the Civil Service. I think this looks more efficient.

I hope it's okay.

UomoUniversale (talk) 11:59, 25 April 2024 (EDT)

Citations

Hiya, a belated welcome from me. Thanks for the work you’re putting in. I just saw your recent citation edits to Gray Death Legion and wanted to point out a way to make your life easier: Multi-use citations.

You can assign a name to a given reference, and then reuse that reference through a simplified call. It works as follows: <ref name=RHP52>''Rock and a Harf Place'', p. 52</ref> - use this once, typically when first using this specific reference. From then on you can call up this reference by its name instead of repeating it: <ref name=RHP52/> Frabby (talk) 01:59, 27 April 2024 (EDT)