History Fanfic / AnEntryWithABang

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: During the second pirate attack on [[Creator/TomClancy CEarth]], this is the reaction held by a mercenary group, comprised entirely of Muslims, when they realize they have killed fellow Muslims, and the city they were planning on attacking is '''Mecca''', the most holy city in the Islamic religion (which got nuked in Battletech's backstory). This prompts an ''immediate'' HeelFaceTurn and they gladly fight off other attackers in a combination of HeroicSacrifice, YouShallNotPass, and LastStand. They would have been completely wiped out, with the leader dying in his cockpit of heat stroke, if the locals, moved by their resistance, did not gladly pull him out of the cockpit, with the main rescuer being an old man who had a heart attack from the effort of forcing the cockpit open, as well as the heat inside. In a bit of a TearJerker, the old man had prayed to God to [[BalancingDeathsBooks let him die instead of the mercenary leader]]. His prayer was, apparently, answered.

* NotSoDifferent: In [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=150993 the main discussion thread]], it is noted that Clancy-Earth and [[{{Battletech}} ComStar]] actually have some rather similar goals.

A bubble centered on the Earth of Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/JackRyan'' series, 100 light years in diameter, is deposited on the outer edges of the Inner Sphere, in the ''BattleTech'' universe. Almost five decades after the event, Earth is visited by strangers from the Inner Sphere of 3020, and they're [[SpacePirates not visiting peacefully]].

* BiggerStick: While the ''{{Battletech}}'' chaps have the FrickinLaserBeams and the tougher armour, Clancy-Earth's effective BVR (Beyond Visual Range) capability is one of the key reasons why the latter has prevailed so far.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Battletech game exists in the Clancyverse. Entire teams of researchers and analysts work on distinguishing what's real and what was Game Balance or Authorial Fiat.

** [[Film/TheHuntForRedOctober Skip Tyler's]] reaction to reviewing some of the submarine warfare options of the [[BattleTech Inner Sphere]] is to seek out a pub.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Clancy-Earth aircraft throw a lot of missiles around. Then again, given how tough ''{{Battletech}}'' armour is, this is rather necessary.
* MassTeleportation: The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the BattleTech universe is even referred to as an [[IslandInTheSeaOfTime ISOT]] event, in a nod to Stirling's novel, and was teleported into the [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo Grantville]] cluster.

* RagnarokProofing: Stated by name as being one of the reasons some Battletech technology is so large and heavy compared to modern standards. Earth technicians eventually make a compromise between Modern capabilities and Battletech durability they call "Seven Plagues-Proof".

* SuperPrototype: Subverted and defied; the first GDI monitor is an unstable hodgepodge of C-Earth and Battletech... uh, tech. The first prototype [=BearCat=] aerospace fighter is not mounting weapons. Both in-universe and at the writers' level, there has generally been agreement to take things slow and not do any funky stuff.
** The first actually made on C-Earth Mech the Gundam is actually little more than a restyled Shadow Hawk chassis over Hunchback legs with a Gundam Style Head that barely works due to little understanding on how BattleTech...uhh tech works and is nothing more than proof of concept test machine that never sees combat unlike the Gundam from the anime.

*** Japan's entry into the Mech-developed field rather than mere research was itself driven by realizing the pirates that attacked them had an intact [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Stinger LAM]]. Cue the formation of a new super-conglomerate to pick apart that technology. The GM and VF projects were situated in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Hakone]].

** [=ComStar=] adept [[TheXFiles Fox Mulder]]... Er, Mulligan Fox.

* TakeThat: "They had to be actual robots though! Not like those yucky [[CthulhuTech engles]] (sic), those were cheating! And [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} titans]] were too big! Walking castles don't count as giant robots! They count as super giant robots and Amy didn't like those! "

* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler: Greene tries to hide from a reporter with the aid of a fake mustache and the name [[{{Half-Life}} Wallace Breen]](e).]]

As of November 2012, the story is effectively on hold due to ExecutiveMeddling causing a few writers to hand in their resignations for the foreseeable future, and there are talks about a possible rewrite.

** The casual[[hottip:*:as in, only ever even once-''mentioned'']] dissolution of the Clancy Earth United Nations by the expedient means of seemingly everybody at once deciding they were obsolete now that a credible external threat had popped up might also qualify.

** "[[TopGun I think my smart-arse mouth just wrote a cheque my fat-arse can't cash.]]"

A bubble centered on the Earth of TomClancy's Jack Ryan series, 100 light years in diameter, is deposited on the outer edges of the Inner Sphere, in the ''BattleTech'' universe. Almost five decades after the event, Earth is visited by strangers from the Inner Sphere of 3020, and they're [[SpacePirates not visiting peacefully]].

Also starring Tony Dansel, [[TomClancy CEarth's]] own version of [[MemeticBadass Kai Allard-Liao]] and [[CrazyAwesome Aidan Pryde]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: During the second pirate attack on [[TomClancy CEarth]], this is the reaction held by a mercenary group, comprised entirely of Muslims, when they realize they have killed fellow Muslims, and the city they were planning on attacking is '''Mecca''', the most holy city in the Islamic religion (which got nuked in Battletech's backstory). This prompts an ''immediate'' HeelFaceTurn and they gladly fight off other attackers in a combination of HeroicSacrifice, YouShallNotPass, and LastStand. They would have been completely wiped out, with the leader dying in his cockpit of heat stroke, if the locals, moved by their resistance, did not gladly pull him out of the cockpit, with the main rescuer being an old man who had a heart attack from the effort of forcing the cockpit open, as well as the heat inside. In a bit of a TearJerker, the old man had prayed to God to [[BalancingDeathsBooks let him die instead of the mercenary leader]]. His prayer was, apparently, answered.

** [[TheHuntForRedOctober Skip Tyler's]] reaction to reviewing some of the submarine warfare options of the [[BattleTech Inner Sphere]] is to seek out a pub.

As of November 2012, the story is effectively on hold due to ExecutiveMeddling causing a few writers to hand in their resignations for the foreseeable future.

* EasyLogistics: Averted; GDI ran low on supplies after the Port Krin battle. Also, some writers are arguing for a standardised loadout to ease supply issues.

** Also, the mysterious identity of the 'White Devil' that is chief trainer for the Triangle Heart Mechwarrior stable in Solaris 7, which mainly fields "Motherlode"-built GMs and VFs for extended combat trials.

*** Japan's entry into the Mech-developed field rather than mere research was itself driven by realizing the pirates that attacked them had an intact [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Stinger LAM]]. Cue the formation of a new super-conglomerate to pick apart that technology. The GM and VF projects were situated in [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Hakone]].

** "No one knew exactly who had first popularized the term '[[NeonGenesisEvangelion synch ratio]]' as an easy shorthand for the aggregate test results." Plugsuits eventually show up.

As of November 2012, the story is practically on hold, due to ExecutiveMeddling causing a few writers to hand in their resignations for the foreseeable future.

* MassTeleportation: The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the BattleTech universe is even referred to as an [[IslandInTheSeaOfTime ISOT]] event, in a nod to Stirling's novel, and was teleported into the [[SixteenThirtyTwo Grantville]] cluster.

* ShoutOut :The star cluster replaced by Clancy-Earth and the rest of the bubble is the Grantville Cluster, after the town displaced from 2000 AD to 1632 AD in the [[SixteenThirtyTwo Ring of Fire]] series.

A bubble centered on the Earth of TomClancy's Jack Ryan series, 100 light years in diameter, is deposited on the outer edges of the Inner Sphere, in the BattleTech universe. Almost five decades after the event, Earth is visited by strangers from the Inner Sphere of 3020, and they're [[SpacePirates not visiting peacefully]].

* DidNotDoTheResearch: An Overlord Dropship [[spoiler: falls into the Pacific Ocean, and is said to fall into the Laurentian Abyss. The Laurentian Abyss is in the Atlantic Ocean.]]

** The agent who accompanies Major Staedele to interrogate a pirate is [[HugoWeaving H.W.]] [[TheMatrix Smith]]. The prisoner's name? [[TheMatrix Thomas Anderson]].

Starting, on Earth, shortly after the events of ''The Bear and the Dragon'', this story is a collaborative effort by members of the {{SpaceBattles}} [[http://forums.spacebattles.com Forum]], done in "round robin" format.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Vorax threatened the Buron Cav's dependents to get them to go along.
** [[spoiler:Erik Prince]] tries to do this and gets chemical burns for his trouble.
* AttackDrone: [[SchizoTech Very rare and expensive in Inner Sphere]], causing some character to gawk in disbelief when C-Earth use them in a [[ZergRush massed assault tactic]].

** Also, [[{{MemeticBadass}} Mikhail Kalashnikov]].

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Battletech game exists in the Clancyverse. Entire teams of researchers and analysts work on distinguishing what's real and what was Game Balance or Authorial Fiat.

** The first Earth-born 'Mech factories and design labs are in Japan. Naturally, the very first Earth-made Battlemech would be none other than a [[MobileSuitGundam Gundam]]. GDI later deploys [=GMs=].
*** In itself only possible through making a 'Frankenmech' of a Shadow Hawk chassis over Hunchback legs. All they had to do afterwards was to remove the shoulder gun mount and change the head styling. The 'bubble-head' GM is a 50-ton part-by-part knock-off, and fittingly quite mediocre.
*** Japan's entry into the Mech-developed field rather than mere research was itself driven by realizing the pirates that attacked them had an intact [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Stinger LAM]]. Cue the formation of a new super-conglomerate to pick apart that technology. The GM and VF projects were situated in [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Hakone]].

** [[TheHuntForRedOctober Skip Tyler]]'s reaction to reviewing some of the submarine warfare options of the [[BattleTech Inner Sphere]] is to seek out a pub.

* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: [[Literature/HarryPotter Remus Lupin?]] Most Definitely Not A Wolfnet [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 SPAH]].
* MundaneUtility: "It was odd, Remus thought, using a Mech to build something, rather than shoot at things."

** Also, the mysterious identity of the 'White Devil' that is chief trainer for the Triangle Heart Mechwarrior stable in Solaris 7, which mainly fields "Motherlode"-built GMs and VFs for extended combat trials.

* {{Shout Out}} :The star cluster replaced by Clancy-Earth and the rest of the bubble is the Grantville Cluster, after the town displaced from 2000 AD to 1632 AD in the [[SixteenThirtyTwo Ring of Fire]] series.

** The first actually made on C-Earth Mech the Gundam is actually little more than a restyled Shadow Hawk chassis over Hunchback legs with a Gundam Style Head that barely works due to little understanding on how BattleTech...uhh tech works and is nothing more than proof of concept test machine that never sees combat unlike the Gundam from the anime.
* TakeThat: "They had to be actual robots though! Not like those yucky [[CthulhuTech engles]] (sic), those were cheating! And [[{{Warhammer 40000}} titans]] were too big! Walking castles don't count as giant robots! They count as super giant robots and Amy didn't like those! "

* TheSpeechless: Brox. He gets an artificial voicebox later, but its clearly artificial tones don't leave him with a desire to speak much.

** A bit of FridgeBrilliance here. Brox is a [[spoiler:trueborn Clanner, meaning he doesn't have one in the normal sense.]]; this could be an attempt to blend in, or a very mild way of insulting someone for being [[spoiler:a freebirth]].

You can download a PDF version of the story [[http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d0lf0849m68m8vc here]], courtresy of @/{{dalekandrews}}/Dalek Ix.

* Also highlighted by their Internal Combustion Engine, which vomit massive horsepower for their size at the expense of lifespan and requiring extensive maintenance.

* SchizoTech: Applies for both sides in-universe, C-Earth has far superior electronics and miniaturization of computer, but Inner Sphere has refined what they have to the point of decades-worthy of usage, and have superior metalurgy and engineering.

* {{Shout Out}} : The star cluster replaced by Clancy-Earth and the rest of the bubble is the Grantville Cluster, after the town displaced from 2000 AD to 1632 AD in the [[SixteenThirtyTwo Ring of Fire]] series.

* “ROM? No! They're [=ComStar=]. Helps keep the Houses out of their internal business.” “Ah, yes, Indeed. Such a minor player slipped my mind.”

* [=~Screw This, I'm Outta Here~=]: One pirate crew attempts this when they learn that C-Earth has nukes and will use them. Then they run into another nuke launcher. You can guess what happens.

* [=~What the Hell, Hero?~=]: Public opinion turns against anti-mercenary protesters after they injure a child dependent of the Buron Cavalry.