Quote:Well. Maybe a crashed ship might not cut it, but there are other possibilities. Here is a quick outline of how Beryl's war happened in my story idea:
I've always held onto the notion that, while the Gates may be located on Pluto, or in its vicinity, they were out of phase with reality/existed in sidreal/were squirreled away inside a pocket universe ... or whatnot.
So,
ship crashes -> Gates go a little wonky
wouldn't really cut it. Then again, thats just my mental image of it. Could be that whatever FTL/phase shift/shielding technology (handwavium ad nauseum) had a one in a billion malfunction and managed to shift the damn hunk of steel into the appropriate phase, or whatnot (I seem to be using that expression a lot).
Keen idea, though.
-Mercury: Nuked with the magical equivalent of neutron Bombs. The biggest ship yard complex of the Silver Millenium was located on Mercury. It mostly produced freighters and other civilian vessels. But Mercurian engineers were known for their ability to perform patch jobs that would have made the A-Team green with envy if the A-Team had been around back then.
-Venus: Invaded. But the invasion went horribly wrong when one of the planets central mana reactors was destroyed, causing some nasty feedback in the power grid and blowing up a few more reactors, turning a once very alive jungle world into that dead wasteland we know now as Venus
Earth/Moon: Pretty mutch what happened in the canon material.
-Mars: Nuked just like Mercury because it was home to the second biggest ship yard complex of the Silver Millenium. But this one was almost exclusively for military spacecraft.
Mars/Jupiter Asteroid Belt: It was like a damn giant Maginot Line. Attacking it would have been insane, so nobody did. People started dying when no more supplies from the other planets were coming in.
Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune: One big clusterf***. Parts of the Outer System Defence Forces defected to Beryl. Not enough to permanently take over the System, but when these forces managed to raid the strategic weapon storages on Neptune the shit really hit the fan.
Pluto: Pretty mutch the Silver Millenium's Area 51. The few people there would have died from starvation if the installations there wouldn't have been hit with some of the _big_ toys Beryls forces got from Neptune.What if: Chibi Usa, Veteran Speznas Ninja Commando From Hell(tm)?What if: Chibi Usa, Veteran Speznas Ninja Commando From Hell(tm)?