Presentations on fictional naval forces
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An evening of science fiction, naval analyses, and FICINT delivered right to your computer. Join NAVYCON 2020-A to explore parts unknown. (Signup free via Eventbrite).
Join the Naval Academy Museum and Texas A&M's Glasscock Center for the Humanities Science and Technology Working Group as they present NavyCon2020-A.
Check out the presentation abstracts here.
This conference will showcase presenters speaking on naval issues and great power competition past, present, and future--all through the lens of science fiction!
From Star Wars and Ender's Game to Warhammer 40k, the Lensman series, the cyberpunk canon, and beyond, we've got everything you're looking for in a fun-filled evening of FICINT. Stay tuned for the full presenter list, and be sure to follow @ANavycon on Twitter for up-to-date info.
The event will be streaming on Youtube here--please be sure to hit refresh around 7:00 to properly display the video. (If there are technical issues, we will post updated information on our Twitter and in the NavyCon Discord.)
To engage with our speakers during and after the event, join us on our Discord channel here.
Here is a link to presentation background info and abstracts, and here is a link to the speaker bios.
Join the Naval Academy Museum and Texas A&M's Glasscock Center for the Humanities Science and Technology Working Group as they present NavyCon2020-A.
Check out the presentation abstracts here.
This conference will showcase presenters speaking on naval issues and great power competition past, present, and future--all through the lens of science fiction!
From Star Wars and Ender's Game to Warhammer 40k, the Lensman series, the cyberpunk canon, and beyond, we've got everything you're looking for in a fun-filled evening of FICINT. Stay tuned for the full presenter list, and be sure to follow @ANavycon on Twitter for up-to-date info.
The event will be streaming on Youtube here--please be sure to hit refresh around 7:00 to properly display the video. (If there are technical issues, we will post updated information on our Twitter and in the NavyCon Discord.)
To engage with our speakers during and after the event, join us on our Discord channel here.
Here is a link to presentation background info and abstracts, and here is a link to the speaker bios.
World of Warships does not begin to do justice to the grand drama and extreme horror that is naval warfare (of any age)
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 8:45 AM on November 5, 2020
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 8:45 AM on November 5, 2020
Looks like it starts tonight at 7 PM Eastern (4 PM Pacific, midnight UTC)
posted by Monochrome at 8:50 AM on November 5, 2020
posted by Monochrome at 8:50 AM on November 5, 2020
I was thinking the other day, that if we go by the line "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics", pretty much all milfic I've seen is amateur hour. Is there any naval or milfic stories about heroic supply accountants who manage to find a discount supplier of quality boots, or a repple depple seargent who can find people with the best potential to work in the mess of the fleet flagship?
Imagine the tense Honor Harrington scenes: "Once the targeting solution was fixed and the 2000 missiles containing payloads of high output MREs were launched, the only thing that could be done was to wait. In an hour they'd either their targets would be contentedly full, or in 59 minutes they'd be fielding calls from hungry, angry crew..."
posted by happyroach at 2:25 PM on November 5, 2020
Imagine the tense Honor Harrington scenes: "Once the targeting solution was fixed and the 2000 missiles containing payloads of high output MREs were launched, the only thing that could be done was to wait. In an hour they'd either their targets would be contentedly full, or in 59 minutes they'd be fielding calls from hungry, angry crew..."
posted by happyroach at 2:25 PM on November 5, 2020
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City is fairly logistics-heavy, in a compelling way.
posted by sixswitch at 2:51 PM on November 5, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by sixswitch at 2:51 PM on November 5, 2020 [4 favorites]
More of this sort of thing!
posted by Harald74 at 4:27 AM on November 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Harald74 at 4:27 AM on November 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Finished the hard core sci-if Expanse series. Maybe this will scratch the itch!
posted by xtian at 7:05 AM on November 6, 2020
posted by xtian at 7:05 AM on November 6, 2020
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