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[dal10]

no, I honestly thought of that on my own.

[pinsndneedles]

Fair enough, it would definitely be a cool weapon to have.

[dal10]

plus you could put your fists near each other and just have it sparking, with would look kinda cool.

[dal10]

I have no idea how the giving people land part is going to work with janus... he is not actually a citizen of any of the successor states...

[pinsndneedles]

He doesn't need to be a citizen. It's saying that anyone who finds Star League-era stuff can claim land on a planet, courtesy of House Davion, no mention of citizenship requirements.

[Thom Frankfurt]

From what I know, the various houses kind to award certain people with land grants, and for two reasons.

1. It's kind of an incentive to stay working with whichever house awarded you the land. It makes you want to fight for them and protect your land when their more aggressive neighbor tries to take over the planet, who'll most likely a. kick you off your land and deprive you of your cash flow. or B. drag you out into the streets and excecute you publicly in the most grotesce manner possible.

2. It allows said house the ability to keep an eye on you, your loved ones, your holdings, etc; just incase...

[Oni Storm]

Which is why you immediate take land on the Capital and then sale or lease it

[Thom Frankfurt]

That's what my guy will do. Park his plane on some black sanded beach on New Avalon and spend the rest of his days surfing... and being high.

And every once in awhile he'd head on into Avalon City to take in a renfair.

[Shadtiger77]

Davion is more option 1

That and the fact that Davion is holding the land in Trust till HE chooses generally means he did something really far above and beyond call of duty... especially since titles can be given as an honorary, but to give the lands tht go with it makes him a real nobility in the House. Usually the Hose Lord appoints the land, but for some reason he was given the choice.

[dal10]

still wasn't expecting this...

[Thom Frankfurt]

Well land grants are fairly common in BT. Let's see... GDL got Helm from the FWL before they screwed them over, then they got Glengary (not sure if I spelt that right) from the Lyran Commonwealth. The Big MAC Attack has Menke... I think the Allards own Kestrel. It was pretty neat in the MW RPG 2nd edition, they had a decent sized segment on being a 'lord' and owning a plot of land. Depending on the size and how you managed it, you could make (or lose) a s**tton of money.

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 20 October 2012 - 06:28 PM.

[dal10]

I can see a decent sized merc unit getting a land grant, not the individual mercs. also the Allards own part of kestrel, not the whole planet.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Oh yeah and the Dragoons own Outreach, but everybody knows that.

[Sparks Murphey]

We get to divide up 40 acres amongst us. 40 acres over all the planets in the entire Federated Suns.

It's really not that much.

[Thom Frankfurt]

How many are there of us? And does this include the NPCs, dropship crew, techs, random shmucks?

[Shadtiger77]

the contract says 40 acres per signer... also... that doubles in the event of my death... but don't try to cash in on that too hard...
And actually, a Man could attain as much as a countship through service, but you had to be damn good at what you did and practically live at the next level... oh wait... yeah... GADIII = MIIO for 15 years.

[dal10]

Right now I am trying to think of how the Junkers would respond to one of their members acquiring land... after all they are space nomads.

[Thom Frankfurt]

trade or sell it, use the cash to further your pilgramage to find junk.

[dal10]

true... and the pilgrimage is not a junk search. it is learning how to deal with non-junkers experience

[RogueSpear]

It's everything else that is a junk search.