June 2012 Insurgent Fleet Muster

[ShoHashi]

Gentlemen:

Wow, the months are really passing us by quickly. It seems like we just did this last week.

I have been giving some thought on how to keep the Fleet Musters a bit more interesting rather than the usual "I'm here" replies. I'm going to try something a little different this month and post a list of trivia questions pertaining to the 3000AD universe. There will be 5 questions and each right answer will be worth 10 points. Whomever has the highest points will be the Insurgent(s) of the Month. I will post the results on the last day of the month. If you wish to participate, check in and PM me your answers. This is a test run, so I'm sure it'll get more refined. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. If anyone posts their answers here, they will be deleted and the individual(s) disqualified. You don't want others to see your answers, right? If there is a tie, I'll post the names of the individuals. They can then post a "bet" of how many of their points they want to bet. I will then post an additional trivia question and depending upon the answers, the scores of those people in the tie will be recalculated. Clear as mud? Good luck!

1. In 2928 Contact was made with mankind's first extra-terrestrials. Who were they?

2. Starstation Starpath orbits what planet?

3. True or False, the Empirians have visited the Earth.

4. The UFN declared the Insurgents an outlaw organization in what year?

5. In what year was the first fully functional Mass Drive Reactor developed?

Please report in!

-Sho

[canshow]

Checking in and participating!

[ShoHashi]

Thanks, canshow, I got your answers!

-Sho

[Eclipse]

I'm still around, but life has become exceptionally time consuming. To break the usual "I'm alive" response, I'm one class away from finishing a masters in Graphic Design and I recently became creative director at a small company with the task of building a creative department from the ground up that's morphed to include a comprehensive review of the branding and project pipeline. Much progress has been made but it's been and still is a slow process to review the company identity and recreate it while building brand standards and usage guidelines.

Beyond that I've become more and more active over the years in the miniature war-gaming community primarily with the Games Workshop line of systems. Within that I've become a rather avid painter and conversion artist for the Epic Armageddon 6mm range, the warhammer 40k range, and the BFG range. Not long ago I was introduced to the tabletop version of Battletech by a very curious set of circumstance due to the passing of Doug Chaffee who did a rather massive amount of artwork for everything from the Space program and military artwork to the Battletech tabletop games, Dungeons and Dragons, magic the gathering, and a slew of scifi stuff (he even did the original artwork for the Starsiege compendium that came with the old game). It's been a rather incredible privilege to help his widow sort all of his artwork and catalog it since much of what he created had a profound impact on my childhood even though I didn't know the name of the artist at the time.

Anyhow, all of that has led to me ending up with several large commissions for painting models for people which, unsurprisingly, is a bit time consuming. If anyone is intersted, here's a link to a bunch of the models I've painted over the last year or so:

https://plus.google.com/photos/112754356711514421439/albums/5665654050039865793

[ShoHashi]

Wow! You've certainly been busy, Eclipse! And...you do nice work! They all look pretty cool...and I bet time consuming working on them with all the detail.

Thanks for checking in!

-Sho