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beccaelizabethI appear to have spent the morning poking wiki until it tells me all the things.
... *sigh*.
I had two idle questions for my not-Stargate expedition.
To start with I was trying to figure which of the weapons off Stargate they'd take with them. So I read a bit about guns. Which is a fractal rabbit hole topic full of vigorous debate. I decided the P90 looks too distinctive and doesn't seem to be used in the UK, except in replica form at Stargate conventions of course. The H&K MP5 was in the early seasons of SG1 and is used by police in the UK, according to wiki. ... he has Stargate weapons cause he told his girlfriend they were for cosplay, thus excusing both their presence in the house and in the budget. And they could be part of a very accurate costume. They just also could be for making small bits of metal go very fast. ... arming British characters always seems a bit daft, so, daft origin story. Other reasons for the MP5: it was the lightest one they used, again according to wiki, and since that's how I shop for my laptop when I've only got to carry it to college and back it seems like a way to decide on things they'll carry all over the alien planets. ... my logic may not be logic shaped, but it's not like I know how to figure comparisons on any of the more gun like features. Though the Stargate wiki does say the MP5 uses the same ammo as the pistols they carried too, the M9 Beretta pistols. Seems like a plan, on limited resources. Lots of things use those same things, is popular. They go in the Browning pistols the British Army use too. The other logic shaped set of equipment is just to use what the British Army use, that being where all my characters used to be. But that isn't funny.
Also, whatever they use, they acquired illegally. Stuff that is easy to acquire illegally would be another logic shaped set. But I don't want to do that set of research.
The other thing is, I have made my other planet be full of biotechnology, and that gives them things like the translator jellyfish that go in your ear and the communicator bugs and the ghillie suit that really grows on you. But then there's ordinary things too, like whatever carries their baggage. They're in rough country so they might not have bothered to bring things with wheels. If they do they'd have wood and rubber and plastic and carbon fibre to make stuff with but not metal. They'd look weirdly low tech and act weirdly high tech. But they'd also probably be pulled along by fast things on four legs. Or just have pack animals. So I started looking up horses.
Horses have their own language.
And their own measuring system.
And... I don't think I'm enough interested in horses to not sound like an idiot about horses.
I mean, I can't even tell if I really mean ponies, since I want little tough things that keep going like the energizer bunny.
I do know that saying they're secretly domesticated zebras would just be mean to TV making. Sure, you can put stripes on anything, but fun as it is, it's not really where the money should go.
... sad.
Properly they should have weird alien beasties that are just as odd as the ear fish, but there's supposed to be a couple dozen of them hanging around being useful, so no.
I decided the dude with the horses would be the Howard Stark of his generation, as in showing off the flying car that'll work real soon now. He has great plans, great showmanship, and very nearly great little horses. They're really springy. They're also not as impressive as he had hoped. So he's on a quest for new parts, looking for rare beasties.
I thought maybe there'd be so many sorts of horses there are funny looking ones around, but I can't tell one from another, unlike dogs who are all the shapes.
they could use dogs. or goats. or llamas.
but on the whole little tough horses that carry things are likely an easier order to fill.
So that morning was spent learning I'd need to spend a lot more mornings on these topics to be any use at all.
Surprise.
I'll just make sure the descriptions get filtered through the vocabulary of the character who only speaks like me.
Now, onwards to The Short Story homework.
... half an hour of Free Writing and lots of reading the reader. Lovely.
... *sigh*.
I had two idle questions for my not-Stargate expedition.
To start with I was trying to figure which of the weapons off Stargate they'd take with them. So I read a bit about guns. Which is a fractal rabbit hole topic full of vigorous debate. I decided the P90 looks too distinctive and doesn't seem to be used in the UK, except in replica form at Stargate conventions of course. The H&K MP5 was in the early seasons of SG1 and is used by police in the UK, according to wiki. ... he has Stargate weapons cause he told his girlfriend they were for cosplay, thus excusing both their presence in the house and in the budget. And they could be part of a very accurate costume. They just also could be for making small bits of metal go very fast. ... arming British characters always seems a bit daft, so, daft origin story. Other reasons for the MP5: it was the lightest one they used, again according to wiki, and since that's how I shop for my laptop when I've only got to carry it to college and back it seems like a way to decide on things they'll carry all over the alien planets. ... my logic may not be logic shaped, but it's not like I know how to figure comparisons on any of the more gun like features. Though the Stargate wiki does say the MP5 uses the same ammo as the pistols they carried too, the M9 Beretta pistols. Seems like a plan, on limited resources. Lots of things use those same things, is popular. They go in the Browning pistols the British Army use too. The other logic shaped set of equipment is just to use what the British Army use, that being where all my characters used to be. But that isn't funny.
Also, whatever they use, they acquired illegally. Stuff that is easy to acquire illegally would be another logic shaped set. But I don't want to do that set of research.
The other thing is, I have made my other planet be full of biotechnology, and that gives them things like the translator jellyfish that go in your ear and the communicator bugs and the ghillie suit that really grows on you. But then there's ordinary things too, like whatever carries their baggage. They're in rough country so they might not have bothered to bring things with wheels. If they do they'd have wood and rubber and plastic and carbon fibre to make stuff with but not metal. They'd look weirdly low tech and act weirdly high tech. But they'd also probably be pulled along by fast things on four legs. Or just have pack animals. So I started looking up horses.
Horses have their own language.
And their own measuring system.
And... I don't think I'm enough interested in horses to not sound like an idiot about horses.
I mean, I can't even tell if I really mean ponies, since I want little tough things that keep going like the energizer bunny.
I do know that saying they're secretly domesticated zebras would just be mean to TV making. Sure, you can put stripes on anything, but fun as it is, it's not really where the money should go.
... sad.
Properly they should have weird alien beasties that are just as odd as the ear fish, but there's supposed to be a couple dozen of them hanging around being useful, so no.
I decided the dude with the horses would be the Howard Stark of his generation, as in showing off the flying car that'll work real soon now. He has great plans, great showmanship, and very nearly great little horses. They're really springy. They're also not as impressive as he had hoped. So he's on a quest for new parts, looking for rare beasties.
I thought maybe there'd be so many sorts of horses there are funny looking ones around, but I can't tell one from another, unlike dogs who are all the shapes.
they could use dogs. or goats. or llamas.
but on the whole little tough horses that carry things are likely an easier order to fill.
So that morning was spent learning I'd need to spend a lot more mornings on these topics to be any use at all.
Surprise.
I'll just make sure the descriptions get filtered through the vocabulary of the character who only speaks like me.
Now, onwards to The Short Story homework.
... half an hour of Free Writing and lots of reading the reader. Lovely.
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Date: 2012-02-07 05:30 pm (UTC)Also, I don't know what pistols they used after the switch, but it would not surprise me if they used the FN Five-seveN, because of it sharing the ammo type with the P90.
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Date: 2012-02-07 05:48 pm (UTC)I googled.
The switch to P90s was in 4-08 so it would still have been MP5s
which it says on the MP5 page under Intars, huh. cool.