Hello fellow ailing mech warriors.
I am looking for any fiction pertaining to the "Taurian Concordat"
Here's why:
This was my first introduction to wargaming back in the early 1990s (late 1980s?). Although Catalyst describes the game as "board game" instead of a
TTWG, it acted as a gateway drug leading to "Adeptus Mechanicus", "Space Marine", "Blood Bowl" and later in life as an adult (when I had a job)
40k.
Now, I just bought the Total War
OOP FanPro book and found the above "Taurian Concordat." It is in a location where my buddy and I back in high school created a "House of Orion" that was a splinter group of Karenski's followers. This was BEFORE the "Clan Invasion" fluff or the unification of Steiner and Davion. We crafted a small house invading Davion space. The reason I ask, is that on the page where I found the "Taurian Concordat" shows its location right where our planets were. Our fluff was that it was Deisitic theology (which is what it was listed as in the illustration) and ruled by two Counsels (us two). Oddly, the name "Taurian" echoes my friend's last name Tauer (dakka handle NightHowler if you want to contact him). Its ruler listed on that illustration is "Protector Grover Shraplen". My name is Grover
Sh****n. OK so I texted my buddy the illustration. I have been thinking about how weird it was that this happened. What a weird coincidence, right? Scouring my memory banks, I remember writing our fluff, long hand, on a wide ruled loose leaf paper. I can see it in my mind's eye. "Why would we do that," I thought? I vaguely remembered MAYBE sending it to FASA. I thought maybe that was the case. Anyway, this morning, unprompted by me, my friend texted "Did we write FASA a letter in high school or something?"
So our minds are addled by age and ethanol by now... Back in the FASA days, it had a magazine... "Mechwarrior" or some such. Did they ever have a write in contest or anything for plot advancement?
Does anyone know of any fiction (anywhere... rule books... technical readouts... novels... etc)?
Thanks,
DrG
OOPS
Google is my friend.... Found this:
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Taurian_Concordat