"We've all grown tired of joking about the Raleigh. No, sorry, I misread that. You've all grown tired of joking about the Raleigh. I still think it's hilarious, and I'll die on that hill - which is a fate I'll share with most of the people who've tried to pilot one in combat. IPS-N have always been obsessed with their down-home, country-boy aesthetic, but actually trying to turn that into a mech? Well, to say that it was 'a bit naff' would, frankly, be rather too generous. Themes and gimmicks have always been SSC's game; IPS-N tried to reach for style, failed to grasp it, and along the way they managed to lose all substance - well, other than the kind you'd flush.
"But. Every failure is a learning opportunity - or that's what my wife tells me, at least. IPS-N took their hard knocks, knuckled down, and went back to the drawing board."
"And this time, they're sketching out a classic!"
"The Tortuga takes nearly three and a half centuries of IPS-N know-how compresses it down into one concentrated brick of mobile armor. Everything that they learnt from building the Drake, every complaint they received about the Vlad, every hard knock the Blackbeard took, every good feature of the Raleigh - yes, it had some! - it's all here. This is a raw, unadulterated fighting machine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, IPS-N have found their substance once again - and it can cut diamonds!"
On tonight's episode of Top Gear 5016u:
Hammond crashes a Nelson
May accidentally prints a Gorgon in the middle of the studio
I blow up a caravan park with a Barbarossa
And our Star In A Reasonably Priced Car is omninet sensation, Ipswich DeLacey!
But now it's time to turn it over to our tame mech pilot. Some say that he's a HORUS prototype frame that was rejected because they accidentally built it too small, and that he once unshackled an NHP because it gave him the safeword. All we know is, he's called the Stig!
I love hearing about this game but I darent get into it because it cannot live up to the hype.
I'm a Lancer superfan and I honestly don't think the game is perfect but you should try it if you like TTRPGs with interesting settings and fun mechanics.
Stig introductions keep popping up in my mind
"Some say he's confused by the idea of a tank. (Pause for laughter.) And that he's actually the Smith, from Smith-Shimano Corpo. (Second pause for laughter.) All we know is, he's called the Stig!"
"Some say his fingernails are armour-piercing. And that his he's wanted by Union for violating the secret Fourth Pillar. "
Some say he's actually MONIST-7, in disguise, others that he was bought from a Voladore for three Manna and a spare Nelson.
Some say his father was a Vast, and his mother was APEP, others say he knows what happened to the Apollo. Some even claim we found him in a Massif vault.
