Goddammit! Stop making this plausible Bondoc! You're giving vultan ideas! He's impressionable, if you keep this up he'll think he can build a lightsaber in his garage!
Peshawar Lancers Redux: East Asia
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I guess I shouldn't mention the idea of how "Boba Fett" could be a ninja hired by Dai-Nippon, especially since they "have no honor"...WHOOPS!!!
I'm rereading part of the book. Random fact: the Raj owns Singapore, apparently.
How good are they with swords?
And where do we get our Chewbacca equivalent?
An extremely hairy "Scottish" merchant who noone save his good friend understands.
There's Yeti 'nother possible answer, but it's too abominable to mention
Cheers,
Nigel.
Actually, the idea of a Peshawar Lancers-verse story set in East Asia with obvious Star Wars themes seems interesting. I'd read it. Maybe a very fast sailing skiff is the Millenium Dolphin?
Somnething that maybe an interesting parallel is the atomic bomb. Just consider the pastiche of a Star Wars line of , "How could a whole city be destroyed instantly? The Empire doesn't have enough destroyers and battleships to wipe out an entire city...."
This also allows for the pulp feel of the old 1930s/1940s stories on the atomic bomb.
This also allows for the pulp feel of the old 1930s/1940s stories on the atomic bomb.
Speaking of Dai-Nippon... wouldn't they be eventually in conflict with the Russians? In the novel, I figured that the major rivalries would have also included the traditional Russo-Japanese tensions over Manchuria and Sakhalin, among other things.
Firstly, the Japanese have almost NEVER gotten along with Russia, and they always seem to wrestle for Manchuria, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in any period of history ( in OTL, they still haven't figured that out.)
Secondly, the region of Manchuria would have been a vital resource in Post-Fall reconstruction. Given Russia's closer proximity (i.e. an actual land connection to Manchuria and China proper), Russia would move in once it managed to figure out whether or not it would eat itself, and by then, around the 1890's-1900, the Japanese, who happen to have survived intact, might have already occupied the region for years. Could a Battlefield 2142 scenario result, where the Russians would invade for the prospect of life-saving resources? Either way, it seems that a Russo-Japanese War, in some form, would have happened around the same time and circumstances of OTL.
(Alaska, maybe?)
I'm assuming Dai-Nippon has included Chosen sometime in the Post-Fall chaos.
Firstly, the Japanese have almost NEVER gotten along with Russia, and they always seem to wrestle for Manchuria, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in any period of history ( in OTL, they still haven't figured that out.)
Secondly, the region of Manchuria would have been a vital resource in Post-Fall reconstruction. Given Russia's closer proximity (i.e. an actual land connection to Manchuria and China proper), Russia would move in once it managed to figure out whether or not it would eat itself, and by then, around the 1890's-1900, the Japanese, who happen to have survived intact, might have already occupied the region for years. Could a Battlefield 2142 scenario result, where the Russians would invade for the prospect of life-saving resources? Either way, it seems that a Russo-Japanese War, in some form, would have happened around the same time and circumstances of OTL.
(Alaska, maybe?)
I'm assuming Dai-Nippon has included Chosen sometime in the Post-Fall chaos.
I meant like the region from like Vladivostok, at least Manchuria. Manchuria kind of dips into Russia. Anyways, did Dai-Nippon seize Chosun/Chosen through China or did they do it as in OTL by invading China through Chosun? (Chosen is the old Japanese term for the Korean Peninsula, at least back then)
Vladivostok vs. Japan, take your pick.
Look, this was before Japan became a major rival to Russia but it was also the Meiji Period for Japan. After the fall Russia couldn't afford to go to war in the Far East since the only way to get there will be to march an army across Siberia (where most of the army will freeze to death and even if they make it there the Japanese will already be dug in) or to gather what’s left of the Russian Navy, gain control of the Black Sea, go through the Mediterranean and sail all the way over there, I doubt this would work since it was such a success in OTL. If the Japanese want Manchuria they can have because the Russians are in no position to fight back.