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#1 InnerSphereNews

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:00 AM

Mon. June 11, 3049: The debut of the ANH-2A Annihilator last year added fuel to the mystery surrounding the origins of the Wolf’s Dragoons.

#2 Sychodemus

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:06 AM

Ahem... The Wolf Dragoons.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:08 AM

Annihilator's how do they work?

According to Sarna, the ANN-1A is the one the Wolf Dragoons primarily used because it was downgraded to current I.S. tech, but the ANN-2A has LBX's and MPLs.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:08 AM

Hmmm.. Not familiar with the -2A variant. Interesting.

#5 GargoyleKDR

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:09 AM

[queues music]

Oh, no! There goes Tik-o-nov! Hey, Hey, Mech-AC-zilla!

[/queues music]

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:09 AM

View PostGalaxy613, on 11 June 2012 - 08:08 AM, said:

Annihilator's how do they work?

According to Sarna, the ANN-1A is the one the Wolf Dragoons primarily used because it was downgraded to current I.S. tech, but the ANN-2A has LBX's and MPLs.


Ah! Thanks!!

#7 Thranx

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:10 AM

Ahem indeed. None the less, nice to see the mech is going to make a showing. :)

#8 VeiledMalice

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:10 AM

Isn't it Wolf's Dragoons? Since it's led by, you know, Jamie Wolf?

http://www.sarna.net...lf%27s_Dragoons

#9 Chacatumbi

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:10 AM

I want my devastator :)

#10 Sychodemus

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:14 AM

View PostVeiledMalice, on 11 June 2012 - 08:10 AM, said:

Isn't it Wolf's Dragoons? Since it's led by, you know, Jamie Wolf?

http://www.sarna.net...lf%27s_Dragoons


Sorry. Just a little joke there with shades of quotery. Have you perchance read the Blood of Kerensky trilogy?

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:17 AM

View PostStorm McIntyre, on 11 June 2012 - 08:08 AM, said:

Hmmm.. Not familiar with the -2A variant. Interesting.


Who knows? Maybe according to Dragoon book-keeping it is the -2A (1X followed by the 1A; X is usually reserved for experimental models and not production models.) It wouldn't be the first time that two factions have different names for the same thing, afterall.

#12 VeiledMalice

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:24 AM

View PostSychodemus, on 11 June 2012 - 08:14 AM, said:


Sorry. Just a little joke there with shades of quotery. Have you perchance read the Blood of Kerensky trilogy?


I have. But you'll forgive me, I'm not getting the joke.

#13 Serevn

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:30 AM

The mystery will become unveiled soon enough... and the inner sphere wont like it... bwhahaha

#14 Iron Horse

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:37 AM

I hope its not this one:

Annihilator C2 - Apparently based on the ANH-1G, this variant only uses Clan technology. The 'Mech's top speed was 32.4 km/h and the armor protection was reduced, but four Gauss Rifles backed up by an ER PPC in the center torso and a head mounted ER Small Laser provided withering firepower for defensive engagements. Ten tons of ammunition kept the Gauss Rifles fed through the longest engagements. To make room for all these weapons, the C2 used an Endo Steel internal structure. Integrated CASE protected the arms and torsos from Gauss Rifle explosions. BV (2.0) = 2,722

That would turn some heads!

Sychodemus, it was the other way around: it was "Wolf's Dragoons," until Phelan (I think) recognized it was, "Wolf Dragoons."

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:37 AM

View PostVeiledMalice, on 11 June 2012 - 08:24 AM, said:


I have. But you'll forgive me, I'm not getting the joke.


If you have then you know where the Dragoon's originally from. In fact, I believe it's the on the last page of the first book where Phelan makes that exact comment regarding the proper use of the posessive case apostrophe.

#16 Deconstructor

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:42 AM

Spies of the Clans were at the very old mechs which have only been with them, but in the Inner Sphere this mechs proved to be super cool. :)

#17 VeiledMalice

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:49 AM

View PostUrgewyrm, on 11 June 2012 - 08:37 AM, said:


If you have then you know where the Dragoon's originally from. In fact, I believe it's the on the last page of the first book where Phelan makes that exact comment regarding the proper use of the posessive case apostrophe.


Oh right... huh, I was remembering Natasha as making that comment. Or maybe I was confusing that with her speech about "rigorous adherence to doctrine indicates having nothing better to do."

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:52 AM

View PostSychodemus, on 11 June 2012 - 08:06 AM, said:

Ahem... The Wolf Dragoons.


View PostVeiledMalice, on 11 June 2012 - 08:10 AM, said:

Isn't it Wolf's Dragoons? Since it's led by, you know, Jamie Wolf?

http://www.sarna.net...lf%27s_Dragoons


View PostIron Horse, on 11 June 2012 - 08:37 AM, said:

Sychodemus, it was the other way around: it was "Wolf's Dragoons," until Phelan (I think) recognized it was, "Wolf Dragoons."


Indeed. Most in the Inner Sphere were under the presumption that the unit was named "Wolf's Dragoons", which made logical sense since their leader was aptly named Jamie Wolf. However in the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy, I do believe Iron Horse is correct in identifying that it was Phelan Kell who made the connection. They weren't Wolf's Dragoons, they were Wolf Dragoons, and were therefore paying homage to their Clan origins.

Haven't read that trilogy in a decade...so facts are a little blurry. However this Inner Sphere News cast is accurate, since at this time no one was aware of the Clans and therefore the Dragoons connection to them.

#19 Sychodemus

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:54 AM

While the name isn't really canon (it was never cited that it was the original name; indeed the unit's official name has always been Wolf's Dragoons), it was Phelan's thought after Natasha Kerensky revealed herself in full Wolf Clan regalia, "They are not Wolf's Dragoons. They are the Wolf Dragoons."

That's okay. Phelan was really good at making leaps of logic based on symbolism.

Since then it has become a sort of an in-joke. And like all jokes that you have to explain, the humor gets lost.

In any case, it's my fault for citing it in this time context, so please accept my apologies for the confusion.

Edited by Sychodemus, 11 June 2012 - 08:57 AM.


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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:54 AM

*Chills*





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