User:Talvin

Talvin's Clan Law

Do Not Irritate The Loremaster, For Your Name Rhymes With Awful Things, And They Write The Remembrance.

Profile

Call me Talvin, more people know me by that than my real name anyhow.

I have been playing casually off and on, both tabletop (that's been a while) and computer games since the early 90s, and I have a significant collection of the novels, some in print from back when, though nowadays I mostly get Kindle. My most interesting achievement is losing a Highlander to a Gauss headshot (after I kept saying "There can be only one!") during a free-for-all game in college. And I have a degree in English and Education for all that's worth.

I have been enjoying this Wiki for a few years and decided it was time I stepped up to pay my dues.

Discord

If you want to chat on Discord, send a friend request to my username here with #3561 tacked on the end. (Obfuscating that a bit so bots can't just grab it.)

Task List

• Every week, look at the Orphans and deal with new stuff as appropriate.
• For those Orphans already classified: pick a category and try to knock it down some. Find homes for stuff. Some of these are just not going to happen. Accept it gracefully.
• Media Companies is going to be slow but sure. Figure out how to fit that into the Wiki as a whole, too.
• Word of Blake Navy is a long-term project.
• Category:Foreign Language Editions In fact, let's go large on this. To the extent possible, add info about all the publishing houses that have handled foreign editions, and put them under Category:Game Publisher, since that states it is for Novels as well. They don't need huge writeups, just something to help people find them and their products more easily.
• User:Talvin/Character Mining
• User:Talvin/Sandbox

Just Keeping Score

As of 28 June 2022:

1. Book Publishers
2. Emil
3. New Avalon Press
4. Sendai Massacre (properly speaking someone else created an empty page, but I wrote the first draft and plugged it in, so I am counting it.)
5. Camo Specs Online: This was made out of desperation to home a single-item category in the Orphanage. I know almost nothing about the subject matter, I do not maintain the page, and I can't help you with it. Lots of folks with more passion and interest for Minis on the Wiki and Discord. :)
6. Capellan Operations Command: Another made out of desperation to get stuff out of the orphanage. Others, I hope, have more to add.
7. Alexandre Marsden: An interesting little footnote in Clan History, I am hoping more comes in the final Founding of the Clans book.
8. Archiel Tranns: Just as Alexandre Marsden, above.
9. Burger: Look. Somebody had to do it. And I volunteered.
10. Siege of Hesperus II (2853): #10! I put a lot of work into this one, the bits and pieces were scattered about.
11. Warchest Point System Quick and easy, and much-wanted.
12. Commonwealth Historical Press: I do believe I am starting to find a niche, here.
13. Klathandu Federation: Another "I made this out of desperation to fix a problem in the Orphanage" article. Not a subject matter expert by any stretch.
14. Restoration War: Half-credit for this, I feel. I had to split it out of another article, and I am going to be working up the canonical stuff.
15. Vishu Folkner: One of Sarna's Most Wanted, a one-line wonder character that had 18 redlinks due to the position he held. Easy to make.
16. Orbital Operations Group (Wolf's Dragoons): at the time I made this, it was the second-most-wanted page on Sarna.
17. Wolf's Dragoons BattleGroup: this comes under the heading of "Making the Best of a Bad Situation". I do wonder if the editors meant for it to be Home Guard and didn't change everything over. But then, they fought and many died on Crossing, so maybe not.
18. Diseños Orbitales: I want to start making pages for the foreign-language publishers. This is going to challenge me, as Spanish is the only language I know even a little of. So I started there, and Google Translate is my friend.
19. Essay: IlClan Jade Falcons: I had the beginnings of this tucked away in a back page of my Userspace, intended for a few friends, but I decided it needed a more formal treatment. Essays are the only place where Speculation and Inference are permitted under Policy, though you still have to back them up. I expect this page to have a limited "shelf life": at some point more Canon sources will obviate the need for it and we can just harvest the references from it for new pages or updated old ones.
20. Tomaszewski Mattlov‎‎: Too much redlink in that Essay. Anybody that survived the ilClan Trial and got mentioned by name is notable enough to have an entry, I feel. Might even add the "status unknowns".
21. Karen Roshak: another Jade Falcon survivor of the ilClan Trial.
22. Thoden Sender: and the last redlinked confirmed survivor.
23. Peter Cobb: We got too many hints that this guy is the Next Big Thing for the Hell's Horses.
24. Erik Chistu (31st c.): there's two of them! A friend was having trouble with this, so I took over and did the disambiguation page and stuff.

Projects

Foreign-Language Publishers

• List of BattleTech Products in French
  • Fleuve Noir
  • Hexagonal
  • Jeux Descartes

• German
  • Fantasy Productions
  • Heyne
  • Ulisses Medien & Spiel Distribution GmbH

• List of BattleTech Print Novels in Hungarian
  • Beholder
  • Delta Vision

• Italian
  • Nexus Editrice
  • I Giochi dei Grandi
  • Granata Press

• Japanese
  • Follow up on the ISBN #, that company may have done others.

• Polish
  • Wydawnictwo MAG
  • Encore

• Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil, anywhere else?)
  • Imperium Jogos
  • Devir (Also Spanish)
  • Publicações Europa-América

• Spanish
  • Devir (Also Portuguese)
  • Timun Mas
  • Ediciones Zinco https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediciones_Zinco
  • Catalyst Game Labs

IlClan Jade Falcon

A few members of the community have expressed that having a well-cited list of Jade Falcons to survive the ilClan Trial would be useful. As this will necessarily involve some speculation and inferences, the proper format is an Essay. So I have begun Essay: IlClan Jade Falcons to serve until more canon information becomes available.

Project Orphanage

Project Orphanage
I started this on or around February 4, 2022. On March 3, 2022, it went public. Not bad for my first month here.

Word of Blake Navy

User:Talvin/Word of Blake Navy is something I tinker with when I want a break from the other stuff. Space battles need more love and attention.

Media Companies

I started this with New Avalon Press. Thinking about it: authors, fluff-writers for the sourcebooks and supplements, and the hardcore loreseekers might benefit from a list of the in-universe media producers: the film studios, news organizations, and publishing houses. Categories just won't work for this: you need some idea of what they make. I also keep running across relevant orphans, so I am going to adopt them. Smaller outfits with just one or two little publications will stay on a list page, anything that is shown to be prominent can be spun off into its own article. Again, parking it here while I flesh it out. User:Talvin/Media Companies

Stuff on the Back Burner

Other Projects I am considering or have set aside for now.

Pages That Amuse or Interest Me

• Four Horsemen of Errai - The first big "gem" that I dug out of the Orphanage, that I recall. I hope they expand on this in canon someday.
• Jeffery Foxworth Love the reference.
• Schedar Enlightenment and Liberation Force (SELF). I mean, if they got forced to join a Clan, they would be...SELF-Absorbed!
• Callandra Witch There's a story here, and I hope they continue developing it.
• Dagen's Daggers Looks like they were just fluff from a Technical Readout, but this is the sort of thing that could make a whole Scenario Pack or Novella. Both? Both is good!
• Precentor Who Lost His Name Huh! I read the novel, of course, but I didn't know about this little followup. Interesting....
• "Pilot! Can you identify the DropShip?"

"Wait a minute!"

"Pilot! Identify that DropShip!"

"I said WAYTAMINIT!"

• Bob. It's a planet. It used to have a different name. Check it out.
• Tai Dai Cult Somebody actually went there.
• Hobb V. Ess
• Kalvin Hobbes commanded the Third Taurian Lancers. We should make that page. Because.
• Rekkem: I should apply to be the guy that comes up with names for Clan OLWs (One Line Wonders). I really should.

Saving this from Project Orphanage

Had to pull this off when the project went public, so saving it here:
I am the very model of a Modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the Khans of Falcon, and I quote the fights historical,
From Dieudonné to Galedon, in order categorical

--with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan Talvin (talk)

Awards

Oh, this place has awards. Neat. I'll probably update my little red ribbon every Friday for now. It's a fun way to keep score.

Awards Board