Timote: I'm quite familiar with Front Mission. Fond of it, too.
...I just forgot about it. Dangit. Good catch. ^^
If anything, I'd like to see the wanzer and the Grafwanzer compete with the Armored Core for the modular all-purpose mobile suit market...
Acyl:
As far as the government/megacorp connection goes, I sort of envision there being a continuum of situations out there. Some governments ban (or try to, more often) megacorps from their territory. Others allow them in. Still others are comfortably tied to them, and yet more are in bed with them. Then you have places where the government is the 'corp. Five different categories, I'd say.
I envision Earth as being a patchwork of all five. Mostly types 3 and 4, with good representation of 1 and 5. Zeon is someplace between a 3 and a 4- Zeonic, Zimmad, and whatever the Zabi family business should be called are powerful, but they don't run the government.
The thing about living under a government, in this setting, is that, if you have enough money, you can opt out. You can make your own land, and be your own government... with blackjack, and hookers... IN SPACE! Colonies sort of change the game.
As for before space colonization, I figure the CEOs of that time were under a good bit more pressure to keep their properties and their wealth and their technology, so they lashed out.
As far as jacking in goes, that's most likely the (first) wave of the future. The second would be full-conversion mobile suits, quickly followed by full-conversion cyborgs with mobile suit linking capability, shortly after followed by full-con MSes with remote brain stasis capability, since that much cyber would probably cause plenty of 'psychosis, plenty fast...
Or maybe not, depending on who does the cyber, and how. I've not decided how much in the way of SR Essence mechanics should be included, so it might not even be an issue.
Carriers full of Newtype brains remote-controlling the ship's MS complement via psycommu, anybody?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
...I just forgot about it. Dangit. Good catch. ^^
If anything, I'd like to see the wanzer and the Grafwanzer compete with the Armored Core for the modular all-purpose mobile suit market...
Acyl:
As far as the government/megacorp connection goes, I sort of envision there being a continuum of situations out there. Some governments ban (or try to, more often) megacorps from their territory. Others allow them in. Still others are comfortably tied to them, and yet more are in bed with them. Then you have places where the government is the 'corp. Five different categories, I'd say.
I envision Earth as being a patchwork of all five. Mostly types 3 and 4, with good representation of 1 and 5. Zeon is someplace between a 3 and a 4- Zeonic, Zimmad, and whatever the Zabi family business should be called are powerful, but they don't run the government.
The thing about living under a government, in this setting, is that, if you have enough money, you can opt out. You can make your own land, and be your own government... with blackjack, and hookers... IN SPACE! Colonies sort of change the game.
As for before space colonization, I figure the CEOs of that time were under a good bit more pressure to keep their properties and their wealth and their technology, so they lashed out.
As far as jacking in goes, that's most likely the (first) wave of the future. The second would be full-conversion mobile suits, quickly followed by full-conversion cyborgs with mobile suit linking capability, shortly after followed by full-con MSes with remote brain stasis capability, since that much cyber would probably cause plenty of 'psychosis, plenty fast...
Or maybe not, depending on who does the cyber, and how. I've not decided how much in the way of SR Essence mechanics should be included, so it might not even be an issue.
Carriers full of Newtype brains remote-controlling the ship's MS complement via psycommu, anybody?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.