Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One: 1 (Nemesis, 1)

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Finally, after Danny has been framed for murder and arrested, the "superhero community" (but probably mostly Aloe) rally to post her bail. from "The King's Jest," Rudyard Kipling, 1890. In a sense DREADNOUGHT was a book waiting to be written. When Rudyard Kipling, under the semi-pseudonym "Yussuf," first published "The King's Jest" in 1890, he celebrated Great Britain's imperial might on land -- the "Great Game" of the Kyber Pass and Central Asia. Yet, for all the glory, Kipling may have helped distract the British populace from the vast naval buildup taking place, and the fact that Imperial Germany, on the move since 1871, was about to surpass Great Britain in raw production of coal and steel, but soon in naval weight and might and cutting-edge technology. Even today, we more casual students of World War I think of the appalling trenches of Flanders and Northern France, yet, horrible as they were, over-reliance on themes and tropes of land war often distract us amateurs to the crucial naval battles of the "Great War." Capepunk: The series is about a 15 year old trans girl being given the powers of one of the strongest metahumans on the planet and just how big a burden it puts on her. And how few of the heroes in the series are either heroic or mentally stable — some think that forcibly drafting a 15 year old is a good idea. Some are concerned more with making money than saving people. And some hate transgender people so much that they'll do everything in their considerable power to make that person miserable for the crime of being born. Everyone Can See It: The Danny/Sarah pairing in Sovereign before their Relationship Upgrade. If the passage quoted in Oblivious to Love below is any indication, it's not hard to see how.

Massie is an accomplished biographer who has written wonderful tomes on Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. In Dreadnought, he puts those skills to good use, delivering compact and entertaining sketches that turn these distant people into flesh-and-blood human beings. Massie can take someone as oft-caricatured as Kaiser Wilhelm and somehow find the internal logic by which he operated. Armor-Piercing Question: Valkyrja drops one on Danny at the end of their second meeting, when she asks whether Danny feels safe at home, and offers her quarters at Legion Tower. Danny doesn't know how to respond and leaves in a hurry. If that sounds a little dry, it really isn’t. Despite this being a long and quite detailed account of a complex situation, Massie writes so well and clearly that I was completely hooked. I found this easy to read, endlessly absorbing and entertaining. World's Strongest Man: Pretty much whoever happens to be Dreadnought at the time. Though Red Steel is certainly a contender, having most of the same powers at a similar level... and has outlived every single Dreadnought so far. When the last decisions were being made, Massie gives us a host of strangers, about whom we should have some information. Policy and decision makers from Russia, Austria, Serbia, and France were in key places in the chain of events but represented countries not mentioned in the title. In the text they abruptly become vital in terms of their motives and traditions, and particular national points of view, but they are unknown to the reader.

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Doomed Protagonist: Dreadnoughts tend to be the first line of defense against whatever world ending threat may pop up. No Dreadnought has ever died of natural causes, and Danny doesn't expect to be the exception. The book manages to compile its dense material in such a way that you can not but help to feel that you are reading a fictional narrative as the writing is so admirably done. It is perhaps one of the most interesting and relevant periods in modern history, while being the most misunderstood, where popular myths tend to shadow the blatant facts. Facts which to a great many seem to lurk in the great deeps as rusty hulks, Massie however does his part to salvage much of this history with a book of superb relevance. Grey, on the eve of war: "Thus, the efforts of a lifetime go for nothing. I feel like a man who has wasted his life." Later that same evening: "The lamps are going out all over Europe," he said. "We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

Abusive Parents: Danny's father is bigoted and extremely verbally abusive, to the point where she has permanent hearing damage from always being screamed at. Her mother is either unable or unwilling to intervene, and tries to "buy off" Danny by way of apology after particularly bad outbursts. What You Are in the Dark: Danny specifically calls this out as an old and tired cliché, but she gets a few moments like this, where nobody could pin a death on her and she has to make the hard choice.

If the Tactical Doctrine was active for your army during the previous battle round, you can change it so that the Assault Doctrine is now active. If that unit is not within Engagement Range of an enemy unit, make a Normal Move of up to 3" with that unit. It must end this move either closer to the closest enemy unit or closer to the closest objective marker. That unit cannot use this move to embark within a TRANSPORT model. First the bad news – this book is not, strictly speaking, about the topic alluded to by the title. Yes, the development of the British and German navies and effect of that arms race figures very prominently in the book, but it is by no means a book solely about those events. Rather, naval arms race between Great Britain and imperial Germany is used as a red thread binding together a story that starts in the middle of Victorian era and ends with the outbreak of the Great War. Incompatible Orientation: Doc Impossible has tried to date Valkyrja, who is, unfortunately, straight. To a lesser degree, Danny has a celebrity crush on Valkyrja. Plant Person: Chlorophyll. Has a super-powered sister, "Aloe", that judging by her name also seems to be this. A reformed supervillain, she shows up at the convention at the start of Sovereign— attached to Magma's arm.

In my estimations this is one of the best naval books written about this crucial period. It is also a key read for any one interested in under standing the gradual march to war in 1914 and the impending tragedies that soon followed. The shooting model is INFANTRY (excluding CENTURION models) and its unit Remained Stationary in your previous Movement phase. Averted at the end: Danny has a Found Family, despite the weirdness. And asks Doc Impossible to adopt her. Though the dreadnought's configuration was derived from the aforementioned Technical Manual, its design was quite different. Vallejo renders the ship with detailing similar to the later Excelsior-class starships. Nicole, Clark (March 14, 2019). "The Female Superhero Stories You Should Be Reading Right Now". VICE.

For those familiar with the facts of European diplomacy and defence in the period ca. 1890-1914, Massie will bring them to life with love. I also ended it a little unsure of the intended audience. The length alone would discourage beginners to the subject. Conversely, students of history will be familiar with huge chunks of the biographical sections. With no commentary to mull over or witty observations, the relevant sections boil down to who said what, when. Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.” — Time