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<blockquote data-quote="marcoasalazarm" data-source="post: 4143144" data-attributes="member: 26698"><p><strong><u><span style="color: Red">ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT-THE BABYLON STATIONS.</span></u></strong></p><p><strong><u><span style="color: Red"></span></u></strong></p><p>In the midst of all the confusion that happened during the Hours, which included the forced incommunicado that the LaGrange Stations enforced, a couple of space stations that had appeared were not discovered, if only for a short while.</p><p></p><p>Babylon Stations Four and Five, ten and five miles long respectively, appeared one next to the other in LaGrange Point 4, and the first thing that every human and alien inside them thought when they looked outside and saw it all was:</p><p></p><p>“WTF?!?!?”</p><p></p><p>For they saw Earth, Earth that they fought with and against, to defend and destroy, to uphold and overthrow, and the insanity that reached them they had no measure for.</p><p></p><p>Since, even for them, many of the characters they could see had been Fiction, too.</p><p></p><p>The Babylon Stations made official contact with Earth and the other LaGrange Colonies approximately two weeks Post-Vanishing, in near-typical B5-verse fashion, the result not of ‘true’ first contact prerogatives, but of power-desiring diplomats that wanted to step up the ladder of power.</p><p></p><p>The Spacer communities, most influential of them that of the Colonial Remnant, provided assistance to the Babylon Stations in terms of supplies and manpower, and soon the Stations were ‘open for business’ again as a diplomatic and bartering waypoints.</p><p></p><p>Babylon 4, with its larger ship bays, takes care of the former, while Babylon 5 takes care of the latter. The former is commanded by an Alternate of Jeffrey Sinclair, while the latter is commanded by an Alternate of John Sheridan. Both Babylon Stations are defended at all times by a multi-national task force, mostly composed of Sol System ships, as well as some others from beyond the System (such as the New Galactic Republic).</p><p></p><p>Inside the Babylon Stations, it is the strange mixture of awe-inspiring alien cultures and advanced technology and down-below wretched scum and power-seeking backstabbers that it has always been. Security forces are now better trained and equipped than before, and have a steel-clad leader in Michael Garibaldi-but unfortunately, criminals adapt pretty quickly.</p><p></p><p>((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))</p><p></p><p><strong><u><span style="color: Red">THE 15-BLOCK WAR</span></u></strong></p><p></p><p>The Nerima Riots were the greatest example, after the Hours themselves, of how bad would Coreline’s police and military forces behave against a driven Fiction force, joined in their desire to tear thru things. The Riots invoked reforms, that would soon manifest as the Fiction-Special Weapons, Tactics and Investigation divisions and a revival in the world-wide ‘arms race’.</p><p></p><p>The world thought that, if something like the Riots happened again, they would be ready.</p><p></p><p>They were damn wrong.</p><p></p><p>The 15-Block War (so it ended up being called on the streets) occurred in downtown New York City four years Post-Vanishing (and three years after the Nerima Riots). The 15-Block War started at 7:03 A.M., local N.Y. time, and ended at 2:30 P.M., like the Riots did. Investigations done after the fact revealed that the 15-Block War was ignited by a massive case of Authored Rage, aimed towards two very important comic book companies located in downtown N.Y. Aside from the down-to-the-minute similar schedule, no investigation revealed any connection with the Nerima Riots.</p><p></p><p>And there’s very little connection to be seen, since the Raging Fictions were a large number of Alternates of major characters of said companies. And so, the Regular police, the F-SWTI, the Army, Marines and at least one local militia had to face off against the Avengers, The Justice League, Themisciran Amazons, aliens, berserkers, angels and demons, powerhouses of all kinds. Heroes came and went off the Rage and the ‘who’s-who-scorecard’ changed like crazy.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, the fact that only 15 blocks were destroyed (and not the whole city) was a miracle in and of itself.</p><p></p><p>The changes that occurred after the 15-Block War were minor, considering the extent of the situation: both comic book companies (and all others in the city) were moved to Staten Island and a defensive perimeter was brought up to prevent that any Fictions that could be created from endangering the city. The Justice League and the Avengers (and all other identified Fictions) were brought to trial and later declared not guilty under the fact that they were afflicted by the Rage. All of New York’s local militias, the police, the F-SWTI armed themselves more heavily, and all around the world the latter agency filled its rosters with empowered personnel and its armories with bigger guns for any future times when something like the Riots or the War happened, when the F-SWTI would not request major assistance from the local governments, would not aim for a toe-to-toe armed conflict.</p><p></p><p>They would bring the bad guys down, hard, with a major surgical strike.</p><p></p><p>())))))))))))))))((((((((()</p><p></p><p>As a third 'add-on' (more of an insane idea to toss in the ring, actually), I had managed to see 5 episodes of that new Gundam series, the 'Double-0' one, and here I am thinking of how to adapt the paramilitary organization, 'Celestial Being', to this setting.</p><p></p><p>And here's my idea: 'Celestial Being', in Coreline, is an extremely secret 'pre-emptive' strike force for Orb (that exists in New Guinea) and, by extent, the LaGrange Colonies. In the minds of the world's conspiracy theorists, they are to Orb what the fellas in the black helicopters are to the United Nations (read the Menace Manual if you don't get the quote).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marcoasalazarm, post: 4143144, member: 26698"] [B][U][COLOR="Red"]ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT-THE BABYLON STATIONS. [/COLOR][/U][/B] In the midst of all the confusion that happened during the Hours, which included the forced incommunicado that the LaGrange Stations enforced, a couple of space stations that had appeared were not discovered, if only for a short while. Babylon Stations Four and Five, ten and five miles long respectively, appeared one next to the other in LaGrange Point 4, and the first thing that every human and alien inside them thought when they looked outside and saw it all was: “WTF?!?!?” For they saw Earth, Earth that they fought with and against, to defend and destroy, to uphold and overthrow, and the insanity that reached them they had no measure for. Since, even for them, many of the characters they could see had been Fiction, too. The Babylon Stations made official contact with Earth and the other LaGrange Colonies approximately two weeks Post-Vanishing, in near-typical B5-verse fashion, the result not of ‘true’ first contact prerogatives, but of power-desiring diplomats that wanted to step up the ladder of power. The Spacer communities, most influential of them that of the Colonial Remnant, provided assistance to the Babylon Stations in terms of supplies and manpower, and soon the Stations were ‘open for business’ again as a diplomatic and bartering waypoints. Babylon 4, with its larger ship bays, takes care of the former, while Babylon 5 takes care of the latter. The former is commanded by an Alternate of Jeffrey Sinclair, while the latter is commanded by an Alternate of John Sheridan. Both Babylon Stations are defended at all times by a multi-national task force, mostly composed of Sol System ships, as well as some others from beyond the System (such as the New Galactic Republic). Inside the Babylon Stations, it is the strange mixture of awe-inspiring alien cultures and advanced technology and down-below wretched scum and power-seeking backstabbers that it has always been. Security forces are now better trained and equipped than before, and have a steel-clad leader in Michael Garibaldi-but unfortunately, criminals adapt pretty quickly. ((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))))))))) [B][U][COLOR="Red"]THE 15-BLOCK WAR[/COLOR][/U][/B] The Nerima Riots were the greatest example, after the Hours themselves, of how bad would Coreline’s police and military forces behave against a driven Fiction force, joined in their desire to tear thru things. The Riots invoked reforms, that would soon manifest as the Fiction-Special Weapons, Tactics and Investigation divisions and a revival in the world-wide ‘arms race’. The world thought that, if something like the Riots happened again, they would be ready. They were damn wrong. The 15-Block War (so it ended up being called on the streets) occurred in downtown New York City four years Post-Vanishing (and three years after the Nerima Riots). The 15-Block War started at 7:03 A.M., local N.Y. time, and ended at 2:30 P.M., like the Riots did. Investigations done after the fact revealed that the 15-Block War was ignited by a massive case of Authored Rage, aimed towards two very important comic book companies located in downtown N.Y. Aside from the down-to-the-minute similar schedule, no investigation revealed any connection with the Nerima Riots. And there’s very little connection to be seen, since the Raging Fictions were a large number of Alternates of major characters of said companies. And so, the Regular police, the F-SWTI, the Army, Marines and at least one local militia had to face off against the Avengers, The Justice League, Themisciran Amazons, aliens, berserkers, angels and demons, powerhouses of all kinds. Heroes came and went off the Rage and the ‘who’s-who-scorecard’ changed like crazy. At the end of the day, the fact that only 15 blocks were destroyed (and not the whole city) was a miracle in and of itself. The changes that occurred after the 15-Block War were minor, considering the extent of the situation: both comic book companies (and all others in the city) were moved to Staten Island and a defensive perimeter was brought up to prevent that any Fictions that could be created from endangering the city. The Justice League and the Avengers (and all other identified Fictions) were brought to trial and later declared not guilty under the fact that they were afflicted by the Rage. All of New York’s local militias, the police, the F-SWTI armed themselves more heavily, and all around the world the latter agency filled its rosters with empowered personnel and its armories with bigger guns for any future times when something like the Riots or the War happened, when the F-SWTI would not request major assistance from the local governments, would not aim for a toe-to-toe armed conflict. They would bring the bad guys down, hard, with a major surgical strike. ())))))))))))))))((((((((() As a third 'add-on' (more of an insane idea to toss in the ring, actually), I had managed to see 5 episodes of that new Gundam series, the 'Double-0' one, and here I am thinking of how to adapt the paramilitary organization, 'Celestial Being', to this setting. And here's my idea: 'Celestial Being', in Coreline, is an extremely secret 'pre-emptive' strike force for Orb (that exists in New Guinea) and, by extent, the LaGrange Colonies. In the minds of the world's conspiracy theorists, they are to Orb what the fellas in the black helicopters are to the United Nations (read the Menace Manual if you don't get the quote). [/QUOTE]
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