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This is a fantasy story set in a secondary world. The army in question is vaguely reminiscent of the Napoleonic army, but the country it belongs to is definitely and defiantly a republic (so - no nobles pulling rank ( Read more... )

Abseiling questions that are too elementary / naïve for Google to be of much help:

• What happens if you panic and let go of the rope? I know there's a device that prevents you from plummeting to your doom, but at what point does it kick in - do you drop a few centimetres, half a metre, more? Do you spin? How easy/difficult is it (in practical terms ( Read more... )

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Edit: Answered everything but the German wife aspect of things, still really need help there and am grateful for any help I can receive, thanks ( Read more... )

Prior research: Wikipedia article on post-war/occupation era West Germany ( Read more... )

I am trying to find out if soldiers feel disposable sometimes, or if they feel like their opponents are disposable, and what causes to act one way or the other ( Read more... )

Setting: Present day (2010-2012), Afghanistan and Britain ( Read more... )

Setting: I'm doing a Royalty AU for a canon that has absolutely zero ties to that kind of thing, so it's probably a medieval-esque fantasyland ( Read more... )

I'm writing in the Star Wars universe, Old Republic era. Both of my characters are former Republic military, but left the service before my story starts. One was of much higher rank, and is currently the informal leader of the whole group of characters I'm writing about ( Read more... )

This is probably a stupidly obvious question for American readers, but I'm British and I'm not having much luck finding an answer ( Read more... )