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Title: Historical Sidebars
Post by: BlueFlames on July 05, 2007, 08:23:40 pm

Those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it, or so goes the adage used to justify the recording and teaching of history.  Problem is, sometimes events go a little askew of what the historical actors intended.  The result is typically something so monumentally silly that it ends up being relegated to a sidebar, if it ever sees print at all.  It kind of makes you wonder what will show up in the sidebars of history texts, written by the successors of the terrans and vasudans, a hundred years after the GTVA has come and gone....

(http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/thumbs/Blockade-thm.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/Blockade.png)

Will Command's learning disability make the cut?

(http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/thumbs/DeadA1-thm.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/DeadA1.png)

What about the misadventures of Alpha 1, after being assigned to pick up the slack for the freighter he just failed to single-handedly protect?

(http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/thumbs/BastionRetreat-thm.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/SF2site/images/BastionRetreat.png)

This one speaks for itself, though my favorite bit is that there is an argument, however weak, for the canonicity of this event in the FreeSpace universe.

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: Game_Master64 on July 06, 2007, 11:30:33 pm

ok, i'm not entirly sure how to take this, if it was meant to be comical, it was pretty funny, but if it was meant to be factual, it made a good point. if it was meant to be both, well, the funny but true facts are the best kind.

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: haloboy100 on July 06, 2007, 11:40:13 pm

it's funny BECAUSE it's true!!! thats hilarious!!!!

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: TrashMan on July 07, 2007, 05:06:42 am

Historicly speaking, the Iceni destroyed the Hinton...Bosh was covering up something, that bastard!

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: Snail on July 07, 2007, 05:07:38 am

Quote from: TrashMan on July 07, 2007, 05:06:42 am

Historicly speaking, the Iceni destroyed the Hinton...Bosh was covering up something, that bastard!

No he wasn't.

The Hinton was indirectly destroyed by Bill Gates for not being there.

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: Cobra on July 08, 2007, 02:44:14 pm

:lol:

That would make a great video. :P

Title: Re: Historical Sidebars
Post by: TrashMan on July 08, 2007, 03:54:49 pm

No, no..I distinctivly remember seeing Bosch trough the window on the bridge of the Iceni, yelling "Take this you foo! They shall nevah has me secret!" as the frigate rammed the Hinton into some asteroids....