NEC is what brought me here and earned a membership for me, so excited to have at least a bit of it back. Now you've got me wanting to kitbash the FrankenCrab, but for now please accept a heartfelt thanks for what you do for the community MechFrog!
insane get on the narrator, I immediately recognized her from Blood Will Tell! really great story, glad the lower audience numbers isn't dissuading you from writing good character stuff. it's very well done
Once again, Mech Frog knocks it out of the park with an excellent story! Awesome narration work, too! But it takes a good story, and you sir, you write a good story!
I actually only just finished NEC a couple months ago and was sad it was the end; it was a solid end and satisfying but I really enjoy your work. So needless to say this was an amazing surprise yo see pop up today!
Hello Frog. Hey! Another good NEC story! I agree that Tenika needed 'closure' as a character. Hopefully, she finds some peace in that mining colony site. Being both a Mechwarrior and Tech, she should be able to salvage an entire Mech out of the remains of the two Javelins. From the description, the Hatchetman just needs a new cockpit, and Tenika can salvage most of the systems from her crab's cockpit to build a new one for the Hatchetman. That alone would give the community two jumping Mechs for defense, and any other weapons systems should be able to be salvaged and mounted for defense into more substantial ground bunkers. Powered by salvaging a Mech's reactor core and heat sinks. Before you say 'that can't be done', it can. And if done right, it would work well. It would mean mining the site downhill of the town a bit. Building the reinforced bunkers, and laying power cabling deep into the earth to the buried reactor and its heat sinks. Which I would build with a 'dog leg' so that any stray shot would not hit the reactor. Building both bunkers and, lets call it a Power Center, deep in the earth and rock should protect them from all but the most accurate frontal shots, where the most armor would be placed for protection. Once built, the town would have to plant bushes and small trees to disguise the bunkers, but that's just landscaping. The community has at least some heavy equipment in the mines, so earth moving shouldn't be THAT big of a problem, since Tenika has bought them time. Selling ores at the town where Tenika met the recruiter, should enable the community to buy one, or two, of those derelict Mech Repair Gantries mentioned in the story. I am unsure of mining tech in the Battletech Universe, but I would think the miners have ready access to mining explosives. So, digging those bunkers and other field emplacements shouldn't be difficult. Also, access to explosives would allow the miners to build and emplace lots of mines along the access road and the road's edges. Claymore mines are not difficult to make, use, or place, so anti-infantry would be enhanced with explosives. Even 'only' mining grade explosives. Hell, one could make 'bouncing betty' mines out of large tin cans (actually steel, not tin), scrap, mining explosives, and low calibur rounds without projectiles. The firing mechanism would be somewhat 'bodged', but should be simple to make and use, along with trip wires. Back to the Mech salvage... There should be plenty of myomer, armor plates, actuators, etc from the 5 Mechs involved, to get at least two Mechs up and running again. Possibly three, depending upon just how damaged the others were. Just about all of this could be accomplished in a year. And I figure that it would be at least a year before the other sites could even hope to replace the Mechs they had lost, if then. It would be a busy year, yes. But a fruitful one for the community. Oh, and Tenika could train the guy that recruited her to operate one of the Mechs, and train Ann (the little girl) to be an Astech, with a view to her becoming a pilot as she gets older. Just a few thoughts. P. S. I agree wholeheartedly that you got yourself a good voice actor to read the story. She did very well indeed. Kudos to you both.
As much as I love the crab, PGI's cockpit placement is soooo much better. I look at Catalyst's and wonder if the pilot is supposed to lay on his belly and crane his head up.
I waited a while MF for another NEC, and not surprise at the start, of the Big Guy's effect still lingering. From King Crab to Franken-Crab. All still will be crab and a new home. Till the next NEC tale, keep hoppin MF
Has it really been almost a year since the Finale? Wow. Glad to see your knack for writing compelling characters is still sharp, and Lisa did a fantastic job!
whoaaaa. standing ovation all round. stoked for the return of NEC. Lisa's narration was awesome. Caught me off-guard to hear "Teneca" but listen to a different voice deliver her lines but it was great. I hope to hear more narration from Lisa.
It's pieces like this that fuel my desire to start writing, myself. One day i hope totell even half as compelling a story as this. Well done, Mechfrog. I cant wait for the next one, and i hope to hear of a upstart new merc outfit called Taneca's Talons sometime in the future.
Such a good and heartfelt story. I’m not crying (but just because my hormone setup makes crying harder). Really happy for Taneka to have found a home (for now).
What a wonderful epilogue for Teneka. Vasil would be proud of her accomplishment. The wayward warrior finding defending a forgotten town is an old trope but a good one and she wears it well. I was both touched and happy with this story and if this is where we leave her I can be content with it.
I really want to see Tenecca (spelling) cobble the Crab together with the scrap from the attacking mechs. They likley have a couple SRM-6's, a hatchet, maybe an AC-10 and aome miscellanious lasers. A Crab with a Snub PPC, a hatchet, and an SRM-6 pack would be a very interesting build.
I miss Vasyl :( there is a huge gigantic elemental shaped and teal'c flavoured void in my soul. I love that she got a matching tattoo to honour him though.
Well done to all involved on a very entertaining and engaging story. I will be looking forward to more in the future as with a little time and polish I can see even better stories being crafted by you in the future. Not that this was bad at all as I already stated it was a good story that left me wanting more. Take care and God Bless...
Now, that was an enjoyable story, and the narrator did an awesome job and brought the characters to life. I really do enjoy your channel, and please keep up the good content. Just out of curiosity, are you going to keep writing more short stories? Because you did write a good story.
Love the stories. Nice to see franken mechs in action, always spurs my imagination for stories where a single 'useless' mech with only MGs or AC2 could be very valuable vs bandits. Great content, Im very old I dont get these modern layouts, wanted to support on koffi but can't find wheres a link for it. Get back to me with some pointers if you can xD
Taneka makes a new small friend.
Vasyl would nod approvingly.
I think so.
I'm not crying... *sniff*
NEC is what brought me here and earned a membership for me, so excited to have at least a bit of it back. Now you've got me wanting to kitbash the FrankenCrab, but for now please accept a heartfelt thanks for what you do for the community MechFrog!
Now I need to kitbash a frankencrab... Thank you so much for the support!
Only a couple of minutes and you can feel the effort and quality put in.
Liisa can make anything sound good.
"All the grace of an inebriated giraffe". What a fantastic image!
Heh. :D
That's almost Douglas Adams level.
Not sure why the stories don’t get the views but I love it…It’s what the community needs more of
I'm happy to give this gift to the channel regulars. views or no.
insane get on the narrator, I immediately recognized her from Blood Will Tell! really great story, glad the lower audience numbers isn't dissuading you from writing good character stuff. it's very well done
I'm not at all concerned about the views for this. It was a gift for you and well worth the effort.
@MechanicalFrog Thank you from the community. I also like the modified Crab. Snubby!
NEC! Also your short stories are fantastic... new power on Flynn? Unified planet? Trading partners? Periphery kingdom????
Thanks a lot for giving them a go.
NEC IS BACK BAYBE! GRAB A SIBCO AND A SPHEROID
Once again, Mech Frog knocks it out of the park with an excellent story! Awesome narration work, too! But it takes a good story, and you sir, you write a good story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well written and enjoyable story.
Lisa's narration really added to the characters.
Thank you. Liisa is awesome.
I actually only just finished NEC a couple months ago and was sad it was the end; it was a solid end and satisfying but I really enjoy your work.
So needless to say this was an amazing surprise yo see pop up today!
Hope you enjoyed it. It was important to me that Teneca get a solid wrap up.
Hello Frog.
Hey! Another good NEC story! I agree that Tenika needed 'closure' as a character. Hopefully, she finds some peace in that mining colony site. Being both a Mechwarrior and Tech, she should be able to salvage an entire Mech out of the remains of the two Javelins. From the description, the Hatchetman just needs a new cockpit, and Tenika can salvage most of the systems from her crab's cockpit to build a new one for the Hatchetman. That alone would give the community two jumping Mechs for defense, and any other weapons systems should be able to be salvaged and mounted for defense into more substantial ground bunkers. Powered by salvaging a Mech's reactor core and heat sinks.
Before you say 'that can't be done', it can. And if done right, it would work well. It would mean mining the site downhill of the town a bit. Building the reinforced bunkers, and laying power cabling deep into the earth to the buried reactor and its heat sinks. Which I would build with a 'dog leg' so that any stray shot would not hit the reactor. Building both bunkers and, lets call it a Power Center, deep in the earth and rock should protect them from all but the most accurate frontal shots, where the most armor would be placed for protection.
Once built, the town would have to plant bushes and small trees to disguise the bunkers, but that's just landscaping. The community has at least some heavy equipment in the mines, so earth moving shouldn't be THAT big of a problem, since Tenika has bought them time.
Selling ores at the town where Tenika met the recruiter, should enable the community to buy one, or two, of those derelict Mech Repair Gantries mentioned in the story.
I am unsure of mining tech in the Battletech Universe, but I would think the miners have ready access to mining explosives. So, digging those bunkers and other field emplacements shouldn't be difficult. Also, access to explosives would allow the miners to build and emplace lots of mines along the access road and the road's edges. Claymore mines are not difficult to make, use, or place, so anti-infantry would be enhanced with explosives. Even 'only' mining grade explosives.
Hell, one could make 'bouncing betty' mines out of large tin cans (actually steel, not tin), scrap, mining explosives, and low calibur rounds without projectiles. The firing mechanism would be somewhat 'bodged', but should be simple to make and use, along with trip wires.
Back to the Mech salvage... There should be plenty of myomer, armor plates, actuators, etc from the 5 Mechs involved, to get at least two Mechs up and running again. Possibly three, depending upon just how damaged the others were.
Just about all of this could be accomplished in a year. And I figure that it would be at least a year before the other sites could even hope to replace the Mechs they had lost, if then. It would be a busy year, yes. But a fruitful one for the community. Oh, and Tenika could train the guy that recruited her to operate one of the Mechs, and train Ann (the little girl) to be an Astech, with a view to her becoming a pilot as she gets older.
Just a few thoughts.
P. S. I agree wholeheartedly that you got yourself a good voice actor to read the story. She did very well indeed. Kudos to you both.
As much as I love the crab, PGI's cockpit placement is soooo much better. I look at Catalyst's and wonder if the pilot is supposed to lay on his belly and crane his head up.
This hits so oddly with Opera GX background music jumping in when there are moments of silence. Love Lisa Lee's voice for this!
Liisa is great!
Yesssss! New Story!
Huzzah!
What a wholesome sendoff for Taneka. Love the reference of the tattoos.
She, (and Vasyl as proxy) deserved a good wrap up.
@@MechanicalFrog absolutely. And Vasyl.....an elemental with a heart as big as a 400xl engine.
RAAAAAGH WE ARE SO BACK
Yay!
I waited a while MF for another NEC, and not surprise at the start, of the Big Guy's effect still lingering. From King Crab to Franken-Crab. All still will be crab and a new home. Till the next NEC tale, keep hoppin MF
Thanks a ton for coming along on the adventure.
Im so glad you are still doing NEC stories
Has it really been almost a year since the Finale? Wow. Glad to see your knack for writing compelling characters is still sharp, and Lisa did a fantastic job!
Thanks a lot. Liisa really does amazing work.
Loved the story and Lisa did an awesome job! More? :)
Thank you so much for the support. I'm sure there will be more stories to tell in the future...
Thanks for having this done, it was very enjoyable and the narration top notch!🎉
Thanks for giving it a go and for the continued support for the channel.
So looking forward to getting off work at 0600 & listening to this one!
Tier 1. Can’t get over how enjoyable your writing and Lisa’s delivery is.
Thanks a ton for giving it a go.
Awesome story and narration! Happy to see NEC return!
Thanks for giving it a go and coming along on the adventure.
whoaaaa. standing ovation all round. stoked for the return of NEC. Lisa's narration was awesome. Caught me off-guard to hear "Teneca" but listen to a different voice deliver her lines but it was great. I hope to hear more narration from Lisa.
Glad you enjoyed it! Liisa is great!
I'm absolutely PUMPED for another New Explorer Corps story!
Hope you enjoyed it.
Yaaaaaaaay! Really well done! Great story and great voice acting!
Thank you so much! I really wanted to go all out for this one.
OUTSTANDING!!!! Now I have to go back and listen through those original NEC videos again.
Glad you enjoyed it.
It's pieces like this that fuel my desire to start writing, myself. One day i hope totell even half as compelling a story as this. Well done, Mechfrog. I cant wait for the next one, and i hope to hear of a upstart new merc outfit called Taneca's Talons sometime in the future.
The best time to start writing was ten years ago. The second best time is today.
I cant up vote this enough!
Thanks for giving it a go.
Just saw this EXCITED about to listen at work🎉🎉🎉
Freaking Awesome
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@MechanicalFrog Most Def!!
This is my first taste of the series, now I need to go back and listen to the rest
I would definitely recommend it. :)
Yes! NEC goodness! This was a happy surprise. Great narration, and happy to once again follow one of my favorite characters.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A great story,
And congrats on 15k!
Thank you so much 😀
This was great and really nice conclusion for my favorite character in the NEC.
Teneca deserved a good conclusion.
Such a good and heartfelt story. I’m not crying (but just because my hormone setup makes crying harder).
Really happy for Taneka to have found a home (for now).
I'm glad she could be given a good conclusion.
I'm a simple man, i see New Explorer Corp, i squee like a teenage girl at a boyband concert 😆
Hah. Glad to have you along for the fun.
happy to see more NEC!
What a wonderful epilogue for Teneka. Vasil would be proud of her accomplishment.
The wayward warrior finding defending a forgotten town is an old trope but a good one and she wears it well. I was both touched and happy with this story and if this is where we leave her I can be content with it.
Glad to know you enjoyed it.
Absolutely fantastic. The narration was very good and we got some closure on things left hanging.
Glad you enjoyed it
very good periphery story and the voice actress who played it is excellent at what she does
Liisa is great.
Great story by you as always. I really appreciate these and how more are to come.
Thanks for listening. I think Teneca needed a proper wrap-up.
Bravo, bravo!👏👏👏It was great to listen to. Well written and well read👍 More, please!🙏
Thank you so much!
It was a wonderful surprise to hear this great story. The N.E.C was a fantastic story and we need more like it
Thanks so much for giving it a go.
Lisa Lee , Mechchanical Frog ; BRAVO !
Thanks!
Awesome! I've been "patiently" waiting for this lol.
Felt good to finally give Teneca some closure.
This is great!
Thank you!
I couldn’t help noticing that the emotional support small laser was getting a bunch of shots in at the end 😂
Purely coincidental and not due to any author bias.
Mr Frog, your voice has CHANGED my little green friend! 😂
Seriously, this is awesome. Glad to have the stories back!
Hah.
Thanks! Good to be writing stories again.
Soo good to have a story of the NEC. Can't wait for more.
That was a great story! I'll have to go back and check out the previous ones now! Thanks for the entertaining video and stay safe out there!
Thanks a lot. If you do back to listen to the NEC, it'll definitely add something to what you listened to here with Teneca.
I really want to see Tenecca (spelling) cobble the Crab together with the scrap from the attacking mechs. They likley have a couple SRM-6's, a hatchet, maybe an AC-10 and aome miscellanious lasers.
A Crab with a Snub PPC, a hatchet, and an SRM-6 pack would be a very interesting build.
Pumped to see another NEC out! Comments and likes for the algorithm
Thanks for giving it a go!
Very awesome to see this story continued, and I can't wait to see more!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job Mechfrog! You sir are an author! Keep them coming!
Thanks a lot!
Glad to see your fiction back
Felt good to do some writing again.
I miss Vasyl :( there is a huge gigantic elemental shaped and teal'c flavoured void in my soul.
I love that she got a matching tattoo to honour him though.
Vasyl was good people. It hurt to see him go.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you for giving it a go.
So glad the NEC has returned
Great story, thank you both author and narrator!
Thanks for listening
Well done to all involved on a very entertaining and engaging story.
I will be looking forward to more in the future as with a little time and polish I can see even better stories being crafted by you in the future.
Not that this was bad at all as I already stated it was a good story that left me wanting more.
Take care and God Bless...
Loved the story Mr frog, Lisa was great but I also missed your voice. Glad I got some at the end. 😅
Thanks for listening. Liisa's amazing voice was a nice special treat. Back to the usual nonsense in the future. Already working on the next thing.
I really enjoyed this.
Thanks for giving it a go!
excellent more more plz ;)m
shame on me for commenting before finishing but i also like that it ends in a positive way that fits all characters minor arcs
Teneca deserved a happy wrap up.
YES. Justice... Moar Please?
Thank you for the great content.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent story. I loved it very much ❤️
I see mech frog and a crab, I click
A solid policy for a sound administration.
top story mate and love the new narator
thanks mate and thanks lisa
Thank you for giving it a go.
@@MechanicalFrog lisa did a exlant job mate
i wish i could do half as good of a job as her :)
Amazing 🤩 finally battletech story that’s good
Yay! More story time with the frog!
Huzzah!
Great story! Liisa did a great job!
Thank you. Liisa is awesome!
March 3rd 3153 would be my dads 1200th birthday 🥳
Happy Birthday, then. :D
Now, that was an enjoyable story, and the narrator did an awesome job and brought the characters to life. I really do enjoy your channel, and please keep up the good content. Just out of curiosity, are you going to keep writing more short stories? Because you did write a good story.
Thank you very much. There will be more short stories in the future from time to time.
@MechanicalFrog Well, that is great to hear that. Well, then, you have a great and awesome day.🙂
Excellent work, enjoyed it.
Thanks!
This was such a fun story!
Thank you for giving it a go and your continued support. The nonsense must flow.
That was good, hope you have a follow up to come. Leona, PS thanks.
Wow thank you and using the scenario ty
Thanks MechFrog.
You bet!
Love the stories. Nice to see franken mechs in action, always spurs my imagination for stories where a single 'useless' mech with only MGs or AC2 could be very valuable vs bandits.
Great content, Im very old I dont get these modern layouts, wanted to support on koffi but can't find wheres a link for it. Get back to me with some pointers if you can xD
sweet a new story had to wait days till i got home to watch it
no mobile recption on 125 acreas
I was in a national park for 4 days so I feel your pain.
@@MechanicalFrog thanks mate
it was nice a peaceful and i got to see the ISS and the chinse knock off fly over australia
I shall listen in earnest!
I just wanna say, MF, that I began writing again after a 5 yr hiatus due in no small part to you. Thank you.
Wow, thank you. May you always find the right word without effort.
great narration and story
Thank you!
This and wild rose are battletech stories with women done right
*thumbs up!*
Havent clicked this fast in my entire life LFG!
Teneca deserved a solid wrap-up to her story. Thanks so much for the support.
Thanks Frog!!!! Love it!
Glad you like it!
Very good and much enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great as always
Thank you!
Fantastic narrator!
Liisa is awesome.
NEC is back! Yaaay! \o/
This wrap up was needed.
This is the good stuff.
Yes! Miss her Zeus though ;)
We all do...
NEW EXPLORER COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!~
This was so good!!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the story
Thanks for giving it a listen.
A great story.
Thank you!
Outstanding!