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    ottarrus reacted to actionman's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Like Like.
    I think we as contemporary people frequently don't really conceptualize the horrific brutality of that war. The firebombing of Tokyo...
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    ottarrus reacted to wintertraveller's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Like Like.
    I see things this way. Agent of the Imperium was entertaining and worthwhile reading for any Traveller. I agree there are some...
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    ottarrus reacted to Terry Mixon's post in the thread Personal News, Not Really Important with Like Like.
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    ottarrus posted the thread Personal News, Not Really Important in Off-Topic Discussion.
    So, as many of you know I'm not on Facebook or Instagram. But I got some personal news that gives me a bit of the happy and I wanted to...
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    ottarrus replied to the thread Imperial Charter?.
    Something I teach when I do Civil War demos in schools that I think is valid both for the Hiroshima discussion and in a Traveller...
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    ottarrus reacted to actionman's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Love Love.
    But a novel and a fictional history for a ttrpg setting are two very different things. In a novel, things have to happen and be...
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    There was an option to nuke Berlin, but, as I understand it, the Germans surrendered before that became viable. As I understand it...
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    ottarrus reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Like Like.
    They were both nuclear warheads, enriched uranium "gun" design for little bog and plutonium implosion for fat man. Radiological studies...
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    ottarrus replied to the thread Imperial Charter?.
    And we're back to 'yeah, but'... FBF, I caution you on letting 20/20 hindsight and common person-on-the-street morals cloud your...
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    ottarrus reacted to Condottiere's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Like Like.
    There wasn't much left of the Japanese Navy, by that time.
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    ottarrus replied to the thread Imperial Charter?.
    [*crrrrk*] ATTENTION ALL HANDS, ATTENTION ALL HANDS. STAND BY FOR HISTORY LECTURE. THAT IS ALL. [*crrrrk*] [you know, maybe I should...
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    ottarrus reacted to Condottiere's post in the thread Imperial Charter? with Like Like.
    In context of Nineteen Forty Five, it was the logical decision, considering the likely casualties of an actual invasion of the Home...
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    ottarrus reacted to Talon Greyfeather's post in the thread 2300AD - A suggestion with Like Like.
    Aaaand there will still be complaining ... I'm sure ... it is Traveler after all :ROFLMAO:
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    ottarrus replied to the thread Imperial Charter?.
    The world debates the necessity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to this day, 80 years after the event. As a historian I look at the casualty...
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    ottarrus replied to the thread Imperial Charter?.
    The Imperium doesn't have an Extermination Policy /Doctrine /Regulation /Whatever. At least, not from any source I've ever seen. When a...
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