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machievelli

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Posted in: Heart of the Universe
  machievelli
04-09-2009, 3:13 AM
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Something that I've started. Won't post much of this because I'm hoping to sell it. May 16 2160: Geosynchronous orbit above the United States of North America The ship plunged toward Earth, fire lancing from the wounds in it’s sides. Circling...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Squad
  machievelli
02-12-2009, 5:22 PM
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I had a weird idea strike me yesterday. I've only written an intro, but tell me what you think. Since I can't get most of you to comment, I've added a Poll, but left it private so no one will know if you did or not for all those lurkers The Squad I...  [Read More]
Posted in: irreverent thoughts
  machievelli
02-06-2009, 10:47 PM
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I started this because I suddenly had a thought caused by watching some kids misbehaving. If anyone has any to add, please do; Youngling Obiwan Kenobi walked into the store, headed for the clerk. "Give me a pack of smokes please." "W...  [Read More]
Posted in: Family of choice 2: Gathering the clans
  machievelli
01-29-2009, 12:37 AM
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The world looks better through the bottom of a glass, Kez thought. He shot back the whiskey in his glass, then set it down. By now the bartender knew exactly what to do. He poured it full again and found some where else to be. Six years, Kez mused....  [Read More]
Posted in: Kismet (Should be Nemesis)
  machievelli
01-23-2009, 2:59 AM
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There is a thread I posted named Nemesis but the problem is the work was entitled Kismet. This thread is the second work in the series entitled Nemesis. Nemesis There comes a time when nothing remains but the pain. Jason Waters had heard that befo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Staff Picks: Best of 2008!
  machievelli
01-16-2009, 12:14 PM
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Best of 2008 Long fics are; Vremya ("Time") (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=187272) Tysyacha After TSL: The Exile contemplates a bleak future The word is tends not intends. The piece is an excellent bit of introspection,...  [Read More]
Posted in: excerpt from Faerie IV
  machievelli
12-30-2008, 12:15 PM
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A little backstory: Rob and Midori, a contact team meeting the Faerie are redirected because half a dozen faerie were trapped aboard a space shuttle heading into orbit. The crew of the station discovered them, and instead of reporting them, joined th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heart of the Assassin; full work
  machievelli
12-25-2008, 3:14 PM
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Heart of the Assassin Now I felt the trigger break clean, the gentle cough of the silenced weapon, the round already halfway to its target. The man fell forward and I waited a moment before approaching. He wasn’t who I was after. Bodyguards cov...  [Read More]
Posted in: A little help here, people...
  machievelli
11-28-2008, 12:37 PM
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If you have noticed in the last few weeks I have been bumping threads to mark what I have already reviewed. Unfortunately this means the works I have not yet reviewed get bumped farther down. You will also have noticed that works written as of about...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Barque
  machievelli
11-20-2008, 10:33 PM
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A child's story I've been working on. It'a hung up around page 65 (FIgure three posts) but I wonder what you guys would think? The Barque Death On a Pale Horse, sort of… The town of Sunrise California basked between the cooling breeze of the oc...  [Read More]
Posted in: If you think it matters...
  machievelli
11-04-2008, 11:50 PM
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I am one of the oldest of those who post on this forum, and I can tell you right now, it doesn't matter who wins the election, we as Americans lose. I will explain: Politics here have been canalized between Republican and Democrat since the 1930s....  [Read More]
Posted in: Family of Choice
  machievelli
10-17-2008, 11:06 PM
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Family of Choice Aliit ori'shya taldin - Family is more than blood. Merisa sighed, kneeling upright from the weeding. The grain fields were a bronze sheet waving gently in the wind. Her old bones creaked at the labor, but she had learned not to co...  [Read More]
Posted in: Gryphonrider Excerpts
  machievelli
08-30-2008, 12:02 AM
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A little background: This is from the first Gryphonrider book. The main Character Dhyanna is a junior officer and had suggested a bold plan. Since she suggested it, she is the one who commands it. All ancillary parts, the background actions, have...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sir Mouse
  machievelli
07-17-2008, 10:34 PM
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I read the Droid Mouse and his son, and wondered if anyone might like this. A children's book in search of an artist so I can sell it... Sir Mouse and the Cat Long ago, in a country far from here, there lived a mouse and a rat. They lived together...  [Read More]
Posted in: Thoughts on the Force
  machievelli
03-13-2008, 1:41 AM
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The Force: A theoretical relationship to Midichlorians I have constantly show a penchant for being a bit pedantic. Goes with my role in our little homesite here, the old fart who thinks he knows it all. While I don’t know it ‘all’, I do have...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why did they do it?
  machievelli
09-21-2007, 3:13 PM
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Now that they had defeated the Mandalorians, taken their vacation, and had breakfast, Revan and Malak decided out of boredom to go to the dark side… As foolish as that sentence sounds, most of the fiction I have read where characters go to the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Martial arts: Or; Fighting without weapons
  machievelli
08-16-2007, 2:23 PM
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Martial arts: Or; Fighting without weapons Every martial art depends on one basic skill, that the user is capable of fighting an armed enemy using nothing but physical skills. Those who needed to defend themselves with out weapons created all of the...  [Read More]
Posted in: How to understand the Mandalorians:
  machievelli
08-16-2007, 2:11 PM
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How to understand the Mandalorians: A Historical respective This week, I happened to pick up two movies at the same store on the same day. They were the Last Samurai, and the original 300 Spartans. As I was watching the Last Samurai, I suddenly real...  [Read More]
Posted in: War and the Jedi
  machievelli
06-25-2007, 1:02 PM
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Since my shorter answer may have sounded facetious, I decided to do what I am good at, explaining it using history. I mentioned in an earlier article how an infantry unit moves, and the reason I did was the Banzai charge they show in Attack of the C...  [Read More]
Posted in: [Non-SW] Warrior
  machievelli
05-28-2007, 4:14 PM
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(Please leave comments here (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?p=2327473#post2327473). Thank you.) The biggest problem I have around Memorial day is i have my own beloved dead to remember. The list is too long to recount, but my younger brot...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Jedi Implications
  machievelli
06-10-2007, 5:35 PM
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Some things to consider when you write your fan fic… As your critic, I have seen some pretty weird ideas among the stories I have read, and I am going to address them by doing what is called pointing out implications. Part of the reason I am doing...  [Read More]
Posted in: Paganism for all of those who obviously don’t know what it means;
  machievelli
03-02-2007, 6:14 PM
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Today in the Abortion thread I received an angry diatribe about why an atheist should discuss morality. It was almost immediately deleted, so I couldn’t vent my spleen at the [ideologically opposed individual]. I’m used to this; Actually being a...  [Read More]
Posted in: General Questions on Writing
  machievelli
03-01-2007, 6:18 PM
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This is for any question on writing a fic that doesn't seem to fit with any of the other threads of questions. If you have a question concerning canon or other things, please ask them here. JM12 A note on Canon: Today I read Jae’s amusing little...  [Read More]
Posted in: Comments on the arguments right now about the war
  machievelli
02-17-2007, 8:32 PM
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As a historian, I look at what has happened before, and like Seneca, I know that 'if you refuse to learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it'. There has always been a vocal minority in this country, even when we were still thirteen colonies, t...  [Read More]
Posted in: [NSW-Fic] Excerpt from The Clothes Make The...
  machievelli
12-11-2006, 5:42 PM
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The Clothes Make The... An excerpt from a full length novella for sale on lulu.com under the name Lorance. What would happen if the costumes really worked? I It was almost funny really. How readily you can destroy a man's life with a few simple se...  [Read More]
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