[Daryk]

Fantastic!  Will we eventually get a link to this video? ;D

[Gareth Lott]

Author's Note:  Maybe, let me work on it.

The story for most of these pictures can be found here:

https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138060 

https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138207 (main spot)

Picture #1 - Elaine Kurita (Her Glamor Shot) sitting with photos of other family members on the Coordinator's Desk.  Hehiro Kurita is always thinking about Family, including Martin, who died in combat in 2558.  He hopes it doesn't happen again as he looks at his daughter Elaine.

Picture #2 - Elaine Kurita, all business.  Dressed in her field 2nd Sword of Light uniform.

Picture #3 - Carlos loved playing left wing (position 11) because he loved scoring goals. But his coaches moved him to attacking midfielder (10), where his real talent emerged: creating chances, controlling the tempo, and making everyone around him better.

He created the goals, but he was the happiest when he could score them.

Picture #4 - At Sandhurst, leadership was the foundation of everything they were taught. The capstone battle simulation was simply the icing on the cake—four cadets forced to work together to develop a battle plan based on a real-world scenario.

Carlos, Elaine, and two other cadets now faced that challenge together.

The exam had been added to the Sandhurst curriculum twenty-five years earlier by Carlos's father, designed to test not just tactical brilliance, but whether future officers could lead, adapt, compromise, and win as a team.

Picture #5 - Just a better view of Elaine Kurita.  Sandhurst encouraged cadets, once they knew their future military assignments, to design simulated exercises around their assigned units. The goal was simple: understand the unit's capabilities, strengths, limitations, and battlefield role before ever taking command (not the whole unit, but enough; Sandhurst is about Leadership and Command)

[Daryk]

Elaine is definitely going to be trouble! :D

[Gareth Lott]

I have been using a new tool in Copilot (under experiment).  The app is called MAI 2.6, and it's a text-to-graphic generator. 


Picture #1 - It can actually create 3D Model files; I had to make them animated GIF's.   This is Elaine Kurita.

Picture #2 - Using the same software - "The ceremony began without words.  One of the women — the elder, silver threading her upswept hair beneath the ornament pinned through it — began the temae with movements so precise they read less like ritual than like engineering: the folding of the silk cloth, the cleansing of the scoop, the whisk drawn from its case and inspected with a reverence Carlos recognized, uneasily, as identical to the reverence the young MechWarrior had shown his father's blade."  Created this graphic.

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138361

Picture #3 - "The oldest of them had said nothing through all of it.  He was well past seventy, spine straight as a bayonet despite it, and he had commanded a company of Second Sword of Light Wasps and Locusts on a border no one remembered anymore, back when the Reunification War still had teeth.  He set down the tea he'd been holding — untouched, gone cold — and looked out at Carlos on the floor below, currently arguing cheerfully with a maintenance tech about torque specs he did not have the authority to argue about."  Created this graphic.

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138361

Picture #4 - "The invitation arrived without fanfare — a folded card, hand-lettered, delivered by an aide who would not answer questions about what it meant, only that Carlos's presence was requested at the residence quarter, seventeen-hundred hours, and that he should come with clean hands and nothing on his mind." Created this graphic, but I had to load a second photo to get Carlos's face.

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138361

[Daryk]

Very cool 3D model of Elaine!  And heh... one sure way to make someone worry is to tell them to show up with nothing on their mind! :D

[Gareth Lott]

Picture #1 - The Fuchū Dojo - The Dojo was built next to the Tama Reien Cemetery so Kurtia's ancestors could guide future generations through a series of personal, voluntary challenges, with Elaine initiating some of them because she wants to know whether Carlos truly understands the warrior culture he wishes to work in.

Story is here - https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138424

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Martial arts were likewise placed under the exclusive authority of the O5P.  As a result, every military officer was required to train with the order. Because all officers passed through its hands, the O5P acquired substantial influence within the military, to the point that some officers openly joined its ranks.

Story can be found here - https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138517

Picture #2 - The Wooden Sword: Kinematics and Instinct

Picture #3 - The Bow: The Harder Path

Picture #4 -  The Challenge of Humility:  Carlos Jr, earns his call sign and nickname.  "Beaumains", which means "Soft Hands"

Picture #5 - The Challenges of Mercy and Loyalty: The Final Threshold

Picture #6 - The Tea Challenge: The Torture of Precision

Picture #7 - I just thought it was an interesting picture.

[Gareth Lott]

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138589

Pictures are just things going through Elaine's mind during the flight back to base.

[Gareth Lott]

Tonight's story - I gave up on getting the Fist on all banners and not duplicating Rinalla's wardrobe.

Can be found here: https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2138852

Picture #1 - Acting Archon and Archon-Designate Kevin Steiner-Dinesen with Lady Alexandra Lestrade, niece of Duke Carlos Lestrade.

Picture #2 - Parking Garage.

Picture #3 - Rinalla Centrella now stands at that Skye gala exactly as you envisioned her: decadent, dangerous, and unmistakably Canopian.

Picture #4 - Rinalla inserting her influence and standing with the Duchess and Duke of New Home (Hegemony), or Kaela and Matthew, her sister-in-law and her husband.

[Gareth Lott]

Picture #1 - Carlos Lee on the day of his graduation from Sandhurst.  The story is found here: https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2139617


Picture #2 - Carlos Lee and Elaine Kurita just discussing strategy at the Commissioning Dance.  At midnight, they become Officers of the Star League Defense Force.  The story is the final section: https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2139617

Picture #3 - Yes, a work in progress, but it is how I see the Star League High Council Chamber.  The Court of the Star League.  I'm missing the Hegemony; the Concordat is actually to the left of this image.  The SLDF, BSLA, and Dome Leaders are actually on the floor.  The back row shown is for advisors or aides to get further information for each representative.  Also, I don't have the Cameron Star right yet.  But you get the idea.

Picture #4 - You will not be able to unsee it now, but this woman is an octopus or at least has four arms.  See yellow circle.

[Daryk]

That's a pretty daring dress for a Kurita...  And I didn't think they were that close at school?  Carlos Jr. had a girlfriend out in town?

[Gareth Lott]

Picture #1 - Before or the normal view of the Stellar Court of the Star League High Council.

Picture #2 - Stellar Court of the Star League High Council with Canopian or Rinalla Modifications.  The media, music, smells, vibrations, and emotional pictures displayed feel like a Hollywood production.  They should be very powerful, and it is being sent out live, or as live as it could be.  (They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal. - Serenity, 2005) My other one is the feeling being transmitted (Ian - "I believe in something greater than myself.  A better world.  A world without sin." — Crystalla / Mal: "So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world?" - Serenity, 2005)

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2139945

[Daryk]

Is she dancing on a console? ;D

[Gareth Lott]

Author's Note:  Yeah, you give a girl a song, unleash her on a bunch of stuffy people, and they start dancing on the desk.
 
The story can be found here https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2140361

Elaine's poem was translated from its original language.  Carlos made a picture for this berthing, of course, locked away.

Picture #1 - An Aetherion (SCE-DS) generated graphic based on the poem.

Picture #2 - An Aetherion (SCE-DS) generated poem and picture.  Sorry, Carlos has to cheat a little here.  But he does manage it.
(Future Story) 

Picture #3 - Marcus at work.

[Gareth Lott]

Picture #1 - Fourth Proserpina Hussars area of responsibility - Erdvyvnn Providence, Milvano

The four continents:
Central temperate belt - Erdvynn Province (Capital) - Fourth Proserpina Hussars
Eastern industrial plains — Volskagrad Bloc  - Second Sword of Light
Western desert plateau — Hochfeld Rimlands  - Seventh Sword of Light
Northern Agriculture / tundra — Nordhavn Reach  - First Arkab Legion

Story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2140708

[Gareth Lott]

Author's Note: Used the BattleTech Sarna Wiki (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Falcon_(BattleMech)) as the basis for the models shown.

The story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2141521

Picture #1 - First Attempt - Yes, wrong arm, wrong many things, but if you have ever been a poor farmer, you will understand that picture.

Picture #2 & #3 - Second and Third Attempts, still not going to work, but at least smaller.

Picture #4 - The final design, many issues. The pilot needs six hands to operate all the controls, like a farm tractor.

Picture #5 Is the Falcon with a lift Hoist installed.  The story can be found here:  https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php?msg=2142114

[Daryk]

A valiant effort good sir! :D