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Yes. The Raiders also used the PIAT weapon on occasion - in both cases, the sheer cruddiness of Japanese armour allowed these (otherwise somewhat obsolete) devices to fulfill their original purpose.

Many bayonets were stamped out fast of not partcularly good steel. Simply put, it doesn't need to be all that sharp to slash or stab an uarmored human being.

Not sure about that one, Bubba. Steelheart has a lot of modern attitudes and concepts, for all the pulpy aspects of the setting.

You can throw the Sykes-Fairbairn, but the balance is a little off (slightly hilt-heavy) compared to dedicated throwing blades. On the other hand, most of those would be quite useless in a hand-to-hand fight.

Nice blade, but give me a Pattern 07 Bayonet every time. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/REL/07076.001

About halfway through Steelheart now. Enjoying it immensely (though i suspect I've already realized the central question's answer).

The term "musket" generally refers to unrifled long-arms. This was one reason for their notorious inaccuracy. Another was windage - the ball (NOT bullet) would invariably be significantly smaller than the inside of the barrel, allowing it to "bounce" down the barrel instead of being guided in a straight line - I've seen one (slow motion camera) emerge fro the barrel at a good 15 degrees off true. Rifles did exist - they were much more useful for hunting, and were sometimes issued to marksmen - but for those the ball had to actually be slightly larger than the bore of the gun, and was hammered into the muzzle (literally - a small mallet was required) so as to ensure the ball engaged with the rifling. While there were exceptions who could get it down to three times, the average rifleman could reload and fire only one fifth as often as his musket firing counterparts. Beast, I agree with your write up with two caveats. First, I don't think it needs the Extra Time - Full Phase limitation - these weapons fired, once loaded, as fast as any single-action revolver, which if I recall correctly, doesn't have this limitation (I may be wrong - if I am, ignore that). Second, I would add double range penalties.

Cataclysm - Miracle of Sound

How about "Voidcraft"? Many types, but all Voidcraft.

United Law-enforcement Taskforces and Regulatory Agencies?

A supervillain short sells a large number of shares in a research company in his secret ID or through a broker. Then the supervillain trashes the research comany's primary laboratory complex, tanking their stock.

The good version or the Clooney version?

You have a point, but I'll still stand by my statement. Burroughs wrote action fantasy, and his writing is considered exemplary. H.G. Wells managed to combine high concept with exciting action and excellent use of the english language. Quality shines through, and I find not a huge amount of quality in the pulps, generally - which doesn't stop me reading them for the good action-adventure tales they remain.

Compared to what else was coming out at the time? F.Scott Fitzgerald was writing his pieces from the 1920's to the late '30s. Asimov and Clarke started out in the end of the pulp era. Edgar Rice Burroughs started in the pulps, but soon enough was publishing his own books under his own imprint. I'm not a big fan of "literary merit" or snobbish assumptions of "important works" (which, frankly, mostly seem to have been simply those the self-important liked), but there is a pyramid of quality, ranging from master of the art , to novelist, all the way down to hack. And whatever good ideas and fun plots the pulp writers managed, their actual skill as writers tended towards the latter, not the former.

Noir derived in many ways from the pulps. I like to think of noir as the darker side of the pulps gone cinema.

You will be captured. Accept it.

I think the real result would just be slightly higher premiums on insuring the ATM. The banks might well grouse and complain, but the fact is they wouldn't put amounts of money out in machines without insuring it all.

The new cover of "Eye in the Sky" by Asia Featuring John Payne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ8LFDF6G0A

Had to think a bit, but... The Atonal Variation 8 Members. Wladyslaw Maranovski was the toast of European musical society, conductor and arranger par excellance. Oh, some called him arrogant, overbearing, unfeeling...but when you have the skill to take a bunch of prima donna musicians and low talent nobodies and weld them together into a cooperative whole to make beautiful music, no one cares. Until you can't anymore. Wladyslaw's life as a celebrity ended the day his doctor told him the odd ringing in his ears was only the beginning. Within a year, his developing deafness had ended his career, and his nasty, vicious (and deteriorarting) personality had driven away what few friends he had. He sought a cure from anywhere that offered hope, but all that he wound up with was debts...and silence. It was not fair, he knew. He was a genius! An architect of music! This, this biological oddity was beneath him! He deserved better! If the world would not give him what he deserved, then he would take it! Calling himself Octave to hide his identity, Wladyslaw set out to bring together thugs, fighters, mercenaries...but only ones with a connection to music, or with musical talent. With his organizational skills, he could have turned any group into a team...but he has his standards. Just as he has standards in his takings - what point robbery if it does not advance the cause of his music? And now, with his team, his planning skills, and his newly-developed skills in sign-language and lip reading, he would take what he liked. Oh, no, this was not entirely a new thing, of course. He could not call this a symphony, or even a piece; no, it was only a variation. An Atonal Variation.

Nephthys The last of Darrian's companions, Nephthys is an exception to the rule. Antoinette de Groote, French/Boer big game hunter and tracker has no real interest in Egypt at all - but she has a very strong desire to make the British (whom she blames for the loss of her lands and husband, the one compulsory purchased in South Africa, the other conscripted into the Great War and killed) pay. Oh, she doesn't mind that she'll also have to deal with other nationalities, but it was Darrian's promise that they would leave the British Museum, the heart of their prestige a lifeless husk that got her to throw in.

Don't forget Tales of the Gold Monkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey

Life in Bullet Time by Miracle of Sound.

Looks VERY Wing Commander. Which, provided you ignore the execrable so-called movie, could be a good thing.

I downloaded SB, and I'm going through it now. My first time with the Fate system, though I've heard good things about it.

There's a lot of variation you could use. Concordance, covenant, alliance, union, confederation/acy, commonwealth, league, mandate, caliphate, sultanate, region, charter, magistracy, dominion, as well as the more common republic, empire, kingdom. Even just "state" has been used at times. In this case, perhaps something like "The Noble and Imperial Covenant of Worlds" would be suitable..