Talk:AWLS

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I think the first thing to figure out is whether this should be one big honking page or link to multiple pages. Originally, I'd envisioned many, many pages but considering this is a wiki for the whole site, that may be annoying to other folks. For now, I'll just leave it as one big page.Elijahmeeks 11:13, 29 December 2005 (PST).

I thought the whole point of this forum was to annoy other people. Anyway, "awls" makes me think we're making napkin holders or somefink. --Stoat 17:35, 1 January 2006 (PST)

Alright, then in that case, as soon as Gyro allows for image uploading, I shall begin the pagebuilding. Napkin holders?Elijahmeeks 13:15, 3 January 2006 (PST)

I always thought more of a leather-punch type deal. American conflicts are given technology related names: is this hidden meaning to Califnornia's importance in the seperation, also a reason for Texas to be singled out (it was not alone in seperation, but it seemed more prominent before and during combat). As well as India, a strong technological rival, (with undeniably larger forces) suppose reaches cricital mass. Okay, the India thing I pulled outta my ass, but I see a strong connection for "america's slow loss" with technological superiority. --Revka 12:21, 5 January 2006 (PST)

--Revka 11:15, 3 August 2006 (PDT)There are two forces at play in trying to design this: story and realism. I want this very much to be a realistic 'What if' scenario, but I also want it to be interesting from a story standpoint. For instance, the Indo-Pak War is meant not only to be a plausible occurance and give the opportunity to imagine a full-scale nuclear war but also to explain why, later on, other powers did not resort to nuclear weapons. In the same way, the operational names used by the USA are supposed to be cool and interesting with subtext but also plausible. I thought supercomputers, with their variety of names and mix of hi-tech and old school cool, were a good choice.

That said, I think a project like this needs real themes. For one, the creating of a strong Latino nation is something that, as a Californian, I could foresee occurring. There is quite an undercurrent of Hispanic nationalism throughout the Southwest and I don't think its implausible that during a time of crisis such as this, that nationalism would lead to the creation of a state, and it would be interesting to explore how a strong state would act with access to the resources of Mexico and Texas. Elijahmeeks 13:49, 5 January 2006 (PST)

"awls" still reminds me of woodshop. --Stoat 14:49, 5 January 2006 (PST)

Then come up with something better, Apple. That's the whole point of collaborative projects, ya mook. Elijahmeeks 17:55, 5 January 2006 (PST)

Tx is a western state?

Southwestern, but yes. --Stoat 19:02, 10 January 2006 (PST)

Meeks, after the Indo-Pak War everyone swears off using nukes, but then at the very end you have someone popping one over Panama. What happened - did they not get the memo? --JonS 13:18, 21 February 2006 (NZDT)

I figure there's enough different people who'd want to shut down the canal and enough chaos everywhere that it's a good place for big-time covert operations. I didn't want to Tom Clancy up the whole thing, so I avoided the uber-special-ops-changing-the-course-of-history approach and stuck to what I consider gritty/grimy 'real' war (I also wanted to avoid the sci-fi-newly-invented-mech/lasergun/supahmissile-gives-total-superiority/revolutionizes-war apprach, but I still mentioned Caterpiller guns and Focused-Energy Weapons because I think there'd be some experimentation and, like the Nazi jets and water cannon, sometimes they'd be useful and sometimes they'd just be interesting or somefink). I don't know who nuked the canal, but I thought it would be one of those, "Wow, somebody might just do that" kind of things which added to the storyline as well as a, "How would things change if that disappeared?" thing that would interest people. I'm not sure who did it... terrorists, special ops, South American businessmen, but if you think it goes against the theme or is otherwise unacceptable (unbelievable, gratuitous, et cetera) then maybe it should be cut out. Elijahmeeks 10:34, 21 February 2006 (PST)

What's the status of this project? I felt like adding some detail to operation cray (either on this AWLS page or on it's own entry) but I need some fourth wall history on the project, if nothing more to ease my mind with writing: was this set in stone as part of larger battle to be played out, ie BattleFront. Or was this the reincarnation of Eliahmeek's 12th grade writing assignment? I remember knowing the answer to the first question, I just don't remember it now. --Revka 11:15, 3 August 2006 (PDT)

His writing assignment. Do what you want to do. No one has touched this in months, and anything you do would set the framework for anything to come. Don't mess it up.--Stoat 15:44, 3 August 2006 (PDT)

Absolutely, feel free to add whatever you'd like. I'm going to start working on a few more maps and such, now that I have this wonderful utility named Inkscape. Activity begets activity--though we should have some kind of editorial policy wherein project pages aren't quite as wide open as everything else (That way nobody messes up Bughunter stuff, either). Elijahmeeks 21:19, 3 August 2006 (PDT)

Those last changes were mine, I'm going to fiddle around with this some more. I figure there's enough DPRK in the news that I'll be able to put together my fake war before the real one starts. Elijahmeeks 13:57, 11 October 2006 (PDT)