Message no. 1

From:	Tzeentch tzeentch666@*********.net
Subject:	[SR] T-Birds and Panzers
Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:47:17 -0800

The old SR1 book called them panzers yup :) Think it sounds a LOT better
then thunderbird...

Walter John Williams is pretty belligerent about "his" copyrights, maybe he
sicked his lawyers on FASA to get them to change it...

T-birds are like Harriers without wings and without the need to fly very
high :) Probably about as dangerous too!

Ken


> That, and Walter John Williams (IIRC) coined "panzers" way the hell
before,
> in _Hard_Wired_, refering to pretty much exactly the same thing, and maybe
> FASA wanted to be different?
>
> Req

> >At 12:41 PM 11/16/99 -0500, Ereskanti@***.com wrote:
> >:David, exactly *WHAT* kind of stuff are you smoking??? There's a
> >:Banshee in the older Rigger Black Book.
> >
> >I've seen this pointed out a couple of times today already, and I'm
> >just wondering something. Am I the only person who remembers that
> >there was a picture of the GMC Banshee in Equipment chapter of the
> >original core rulebook, published a decade ago (a few years before
> >RBB, I might add)? :)
> >
> >I even remember when that vehicle class was still called 'panzers'.
> >They weren't called 'thunderbirds' until the NAN books came out, and
> >FASA must have taken a liking to the term, because they've used it
> >ever since.