Quote:SkyeFire wrote:Definitely a good speech.
No idea who Lizzie Ngo is, sadly. But I know there's a version of Buckaroo Banzai in the (classic) BTech universe....
"You have Cavaliers? I have Avengers. And a Hulk. Usually. When he's not off wandering the world in sackcloth and ashes trying to do penance for things that really weren't his fault and I keep telling him that but will he listen? No, and then I have to chase him down across half the planet and drag him back home to let Pepper talk him down because he'll listen to Pepper and not to me, which really isn't fair, but she's got all the people skills in this relationship so it makes a good division of labor and WOW you guys have some really strong coffee in this universe can I get some more please?"
Liz Ngo is one of the protagonists of a series of much-loved Battletech fanfics by a gent who goes by the handle "Cannonshop". She's the Duchess of Kowloon, a minor nowhere planet on the Lyran fringe, generally poorly regarded and considered unimportant - except for being the home of Ngo Industries, one of the very few surviving industrial tool & machining megacorporations in the Inner Sphere capable of building the tools needed to build things like 'mech factories. Most of the rest having been bombed into nonexistence over the course of the Succession Wars because they're critical suppliers for rebuilding the military industry.
The stories tend to be interesting and well thought out, and deal with characters who are more realistic than the four-color heroes and villains that populate most of the BT novels.
I've got a link to most of the stories here somewhere, culled from the several iterations of BT forums...
http://kagetsuki.us/perpgame/Kowloon.zip
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