JTAS Contest 26 Announced

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Hello all,

Onno Meyer has posted the criteria for Contest 26:

On page 94, Sword Worlds tells us about the Ormen hin Lange, a
Danish name meaning "the Long Worm". For those who do not have
Sword Worlds: Ormen hin Lange is the traditional name for the
Gram Navy's most powerful battleship. The name was used again
and again over the centuries. The 8th ship of the name fought in
the Second Frontier War (615 to 620). She is a museum ship in
orbit around Gram and formally still commissioned. The 14th ship
of the name is currently in active service, a 500,000-ton
battleship.

Your task is to write up one of the other twelve ships. Since
many of them are quite old, any duplicate entry can be blamed on
bad historical records

I mailed Paul, Hans and Robert to ask if the Ormen hin Lange was
original material. Paul is 95% sure it is new but passed the
question to Hans. Hans didn't reply. I'll go with Paul's
recollection. If there is canon on any other Long Worm, just
pick a different one for your project.

Technical stuff:
* The deadline is Monday, August 2nd. (We're getting into the
summer vacations.)
* Send your entries to

onno.meyer@gmx.de

* Please submit any texts as plain text with 64 characters per
line. I have to re-format anything else.
* If there are pictures, I will host them on my web page for the
duration of the voting period.
* The entries will no longer be anonymous. The ballot stays
secret, of course.

Have fun,
Onno

 

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Hello Hans,

Congratulations on winning Contest 25 and for hosting and thanks for the official start of Contest 26. Here are a couple of questions relating to the contest and 1 non-related question.

Is there a TL limit?

The preliminary post indicated a TL of 9.

Is there a weight limit?

Did you receive my email sent 7/25/04 PDT?

Tom R

"Onno Meyer" <onno.meyer@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ccdp6q$q1r$1@pyramid.sjgames.com...
> On page 94, Sword Worlds tells us about the
> Ormen hin Lange, a Danish name meaning
> "the Long Worm". For those who do not have
> Sword Worlds: Ormen hin Lange is the
> traditional name for the Gram Navy's most
> powerful battleship. The name was used again
> and again over the centuries. The 8th ship of > the name fought in the Second Frontier War
> (615 to 620). She is a museum ship in orbit
> around Gram and formally still commissioned.
> The 14th ship of the name is currently in
> active service, a 500,000-ton battleship.
>
> Your task is to write up one of the other
> twelve ships. Since many of them are quite
> old, any duplicate entry can be blamed on bad > historical records
>
> I mailed Paul, Hans and Robert to ask if the
> Ormen hin Lange was original material. Paul is
> 95% sure it is new but passed the question to
> Hans. Hans didn't reply. I'll go with Paul's
> recollection. If there is canon on any other
> Long Worm, just pick a different one for your
> project.
>
> Technical stuff:
> * The deadline is Monday, August 2nd. (We're
> getting into the summer vacations.)
> * Send your entries to
>
> onno.meyer@gmx.de
>
> * Please submit any texts as plain text with
> 64 characters per line. I have to re-format
> anything else.
> * If there are pictures, I will host them on
> my web page for the duration of the voting
> period.
> * The entries will no longer be anonymous. The ballot stays secret, of course.
>
> Have fun,
> Onno

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In response to an email asking for clarification from me Onno Meyer responded on the JTAS Design board:

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:51:38 +0000 (UTC), onno.meyer@gmx.de (Onno Meyer) wrote:

* Please submit any texts as plain text with 64 characters per line. I have to re-format anything else.

Clarification: Please submit any texts as plain text with 64 characters per line. If you can't do that for some reason, I will re-format your text into plain text with 64 characters per line before posting, but I would prefer that you do it yourself.

Onno