Martian Rangers?
Wed, 2010-03-10 23:33
In the 'Martian Manhunt' sidebar on page 95 of the EP core book there is mention of 'Martian Rangers'. I'm a minutia hound and I'd love to know if there is any background on the Martian Rangers. Have they been around since the beginning of the colonization and traditional peace keeping force? Are they a hypercorp funded private police force used to keep the peace on Mars? Are they a paramilitary hypercorps themselves, ala Direct Action, specializing in the Martian theater?
Over observant fanboys want to know!
Thu, 2010-03-11 13:34
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Good thing I already have Sunward on pre-order, then.
Sat, 2010-03-27 19:36
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Are the Martian Rangers a reference to Babylon 5's Anla'Shok?
We are Rangers. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. We live for the one, we die for the one.
(is there any update on Sunward? I'd rather know if it's going to be released before preordering it on Amazon)
Sun, 2010-03-28 01:39
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Are the Martian Rangers a reference to Babylon 5's Anla'Shok?
It could also just be a reference to the Army Rangers.
(is there any update on Sunward? I'd rather know if it's going to be released before preordering it on Amazon)
Amazon says that the release date is September 1st, which makes me a very sad panda.
Sun, 2010-03-28 11:17
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I thought it was a reference to the Texas Rangers. No, not the baseball team. These guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division (link provided for non-American fans that may not be up on American state level police organizations and/or wild west lore).
Being that Mars is at once the most heavily populated place in the settlement and the place with the most spread out population(Mars is only half the size of earth, but the fact it has no oceans means it has twice the landmass as earth...that's a lot of space to run), I could easily see a police/paramilitary force empowered to have jurisdiction all over Mars. They'd have to be trained to deal with both dense urban areas and extremely hostile wilderness conditions, since pursuit of their targets may take them anywhere.
Sun, 2010-03-28 19:09
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I thought it was a reference to the Texas Rangers. No, not the baseball team. These guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division (link provided for non-American fans that may not be up on American state level police organizations and/or wild west lore).
Being that Mars is at once the most heavily populated place in the settlement and the place with the most spread out population(Mars is only half the size of earth, but the fact it has no oceans means it has twice the landmass as earth...that's a lot of space to run), I could easily see a police/paramilitary force empowered to have jurisdiction all over Mars. They'd have to be trained to deal with both dense urban areas and extremely hostile wilderness conditions, since pursuit of their targets may take them anywhere.
That actually does sound like what they were trying to create with the Martian Rangers. Granted, I was under the impression that they may be a group that travels off-world for various Barsoomian interests, but if they don't then it's pretty likely that this is the case.
Sun, 2010-03-28 20:48
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That's actually an option that I hadn't considered: that the Martian Rangers are actually a Barsoomian police force. I tend to associate police with the establishment and the Barsoomians are pretty much anti-establishment. Then again, they would want to keep the establishment up out of their business and self policing would help that.
Mon, 2010-03-29 14:16
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I hadn't seen this movie when I wrote the material on the Rangers, but check out Sukiyaki Django.
Mon, 2010-03-29 14:42
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What's the pitch for that movie?
I just bought the documentary series "Mars Rising" pretty good ideas to pick up
got a nice idea for a Martian Ranger, inspired by B5 character Marcus Cole, but I'll need to tweek him some
got a question on Mars itself; when you write partially terraformed, what do you mean exactly?
something like in Cowboy Bebop the movie with some zone viable and others lethal, or the whole planet viable, but only for spliced morphs (like in KS Robinson's Green Mars)?
Mon, 2010-03-29 18:56
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I hadn't seen this movie when I wrote the material on the Rangers, but check out Sukiyaki Django.
Wow, now that you mention it... that's perfect. A combination of the gunman lawbringer and the Asian warrior. Exactly what I might have expected to see out of it.
Yup, covered 'em a bit more in the Mars chapter of _Sunward_.
Jack Graham