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tl;dr: Folks want to use ancestry to see where and how it goes. What do they need to know? Is there anything to avoid?

I'm not wild on the idea of submitting DNA swabs for a lot of reasons, the recent issues with genealogy.com's data being a great example. What of tracing family tree by liniage?

1. The free trial STATTS with 'sign in using the following services' I haven't gone past that point because I don't want to hand anything over til they show me where they want payment information, because free trials are seldom free and.

2. The payment page for full signups constnatly 'reassure' that you don't have to do anything each month it auto renews. my family's gotten burned on auto renewals before where the other end basically refused to stop taking money out in spite of trying to end services.

3. Anyone know about the library edition how to find out what libraries have access to that and what's needed to sign in that way?

tl;dr: Folks want to use ancestry to see where and how it goes. What do they need to know? Is there anything to avoid?

I'm not wild on the idea of submitting DNA swabs for a lot of reasons, the recent issues with genealogy.com's data being a great example. What of tracing family tree by liniage?

This goes all the way back through Earthsiege, but covering Earthsiege and Starsiege is important for some of the Tribes lore given how the Cybrid threat and the Empire shaped.... basically everything.

This is less a structured 'professional' essay and more just me unwinding by way of spitballing.

I hadn't really made the connections at the time, but after getting back into battletech to a degree (I was an enthusiastic young sprog. then when the clans got front and center I bailed because I just plain HATED the clans.)

I had long known that Earthsiege was a result of dynamix basically having an engine but either failing to secure or failing to keep the rights to produce licensed battletech/mechwarrior content.

Then recently I went re-reading some of the Starsiege/Tribes lore documents and... the whole thing struck me wit ha case of deja vu concerning Battletech. Sure fine there isn't Lostech as such, and there is no space-ATT/Comcast, but the whole thing feels very... inner sphere politics, with the Wilderzone/Tribes being perriphery states.

More to the point, given the timelines? It wouldn't surprise me if the guys punching up the documents for the Tribes part of the lore were DEEPLY unhappy with how cartoonishly DUMB the battletech clans are from a societal perspective and went 'No. That's stupid. These PEOPLE are stupid with their wholesale mockingly aping new age totamec animal nonsense and doing it BADLY.... All to justify a society that basically only functions because the writer said fuck you I want to jack off to how awesome the space wolves are because even when they lose they actually win.

Meanwhile the Tribes documentation and lroe basically have the tribes 'winning' in skermish fighting and then mostly because the Empire is too busy fighting for its life, and the things that hit the tribes were a 'here we need supplies, go ... see what you can scrounge' attack. I'm talking 'these guys literally exist because the better equipped better organized force can't be bothered' rather than 'these under equipped goons win because the narritive says so.'

And even then it isn't a total 'take that' at Battletech Clans. There's a sort of respect from the empire or at least those that have to share border space and attempts at taking the concept of power armor and going 'hey maybe we can do something with that' rather than 'look how stupid they are.'

Then you have the firetruce. Aka Space Olympics. See this is the kind of thing that I love because it isn't just martial wankery. It's if your family had someone that did well, you are expected to know that story and be able to tell it WELL to keep that history alive. These aren't all jacked up warrriors gene crafted for war. Theyre... people who largely want to do their own thing out in space and the guys in power armor are a very VANISHINGLY small percentage of the population.

I kinda wish actual books were written in the verse, because. Put bluntly. I find it more interesting than the clan wars, the word of blake, and the current il-clan era (where the f'ing clans, from space bumfuckistaan with overly streached supply lines... WON against the people and everything that outnumbers them about ... oh.... a thousand to one.)

She lists Zeus as her grandad, so unless Apollo hit it off with another woman I'm not sure how she isn't unless Zeus himself left only a short time before and she's the daughter of whoever was a result of his last at bat.

Also would it be Polluxian, or Olympian? Given we don't know if the Psychokinetic being that identified as Apollo was an Earth native, or hyper advanced/simi ascended traveler?

It's both hilarious, and terrifying.

That is all.

Reddit's automod thing says I threatened violence and harm and. I dunno? But I recall effectivly advocating against harm in the subs where discussion was going on. However It's funny. The morning after I remind folk that 'oh hey the corporate platforms, including reddit, will try to stifle discussion of altenritives' I eat a ban wit ha YOU WERE INCITING VIOLENCE AGAINST PEOPLE warning.

...As I said.

They would not fear us, if we could not harm them.