History Fanfic / AnEntryWithABang

Also starring Tony Dansel, [[Creator/TomClancy CEarth's]] own version of [[MemeticBadass Kai Allard-Liao]] and [[CrazyAwesome Aidan Pryde]].

** Also, some of the stuff [[CrazyAwesome Dansel's]] supposedly gotten up to.

* BiggerStick: While the ''{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}}'' chaps have the [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] and the tougher armour, Clancy-Earth's effective BVR (Beyond Visual Range) capability is one of the key reasons why the latter has prevailed so far. Earth's large numbers of nuclear missiles also helped. Though that may be a case of More Sticks, as BT has nukes too, they just don't have a lot of them.

* BiggerStick: While the ''{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}}'' chaps have the FrickinLaserBeams and the tougher armour, Clancy-Earth's effective BVR (Beyond Visual Range) capability is one of the key reasons why the latter has prevailed so far. Earth's large numbers of nuclear missiles also helped. Though that may be a case of More Sticks, as BT has nukes too, they just don't have a lot of them.

** The captured Hunchback is called [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]], complete with [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame a stylised Disney hunchback on its chest]].

* NeverLiveItDown: Sally Ryan's apparent crush on Dansel is given this treatment in-universe.

* GadgetWatches: [[spoiler: One with a bhut jolokia pepper spray.]]

** “Well, I can tell you that NOD is not it. We rejected it on cultural grounds. And there was something dry about being called the 'Nonstandard Operations Division.” “Pity. Nod has such a fore behind it when you say it. Nod. NOD. Simple. Threatening even.” “Thanks, but sorry to disappoint. I'll tell you though, that the people who wanted that name even had a logo put together and everything. A crimson scorpion tail on a truncated black triangle background. A sort of thematic opposite to the Bronze Eagle.” “Ah, yes, I can see that. One is a bright and proud predator, glorious in movement and action. The other a hidden and dangerous creature, full of poison and death. A shame. We may have to steal that for ourselves.”

Starting on Earth, shortly after the events of ''Literature/TheBearAndTheDragon'', this story is a collaborative effort by members of the Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[http://forums.spacebattles.com Forum]], done in "round robin" format.

The current discussion threads covering various aspects of the RR can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/forumdisplay.php?f=55 in this subforum]]. The story also has [[http://aewab.wikia.com/wiki/An_Entry_with_A_Bang!_Wiki a wiki]], to cut straight to the details, without the chitchat and writer inter-personal relations.

You can download a PDF version of the story [[http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d0lf0849m68m8vc here]], courtesy of @/{{dalekandrews}}/Dalek Ix. There is also [[http://samlib.ru/t/tolokin_s_a/btclancyverse.shtml a partial Russian translation]] (reaching to just before the end of the Battle for Earth).

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Clancy-Earth aircraft throw a lot of missiles around. Then again, given how tough ''{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}}'' armour is, this is rather necessary.
* MassTeleportation: The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the [=BattleTech=] universe is even referred to as an [[IslandInTheSeaOfTime ISOT]] event, in a nod to Stirling's novel, and was teleported into the [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo Grantville]] cluster.

!!This Fanfic provides examples of:

* BiggerStick: While the ''{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}}'' chaps have the FrickinLaserBeams and the tougher armour, Clancy-Earth's effective BVR (Beyond Visual Range) capability is one of the key reasons why the latter has prevailed so far.
** Earth's large numbers of nuclear missiles also helped. Though that may be a case of More Sticks, as BT has nukes too, they just don't have a lot of them.

** "Some of ‘em look like they could’ve walked off the set of Film/MadMax."

* BadassGrandpa: A squadron whose pilots are mostly in their 60s and 70s help defend Earth from invading pirates. Special mention goes to Chuck Yeager -- yes, *that* Chuck Yeager -- for doing so at age 82 in-story.
** Also, [[MemeticBadass Mikhail Kalashnikov]].

Starting on Earth, shortly after the events of ''The Bear and the Dragon'', this story is a collaborative effort by members of the Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[http://forums.spacebattles.com Forum]], done in "round robin" format.

Starting on Earth, shortly after the events of ''The Bear and the Dragon'', this story is a collaborative effort by members of the SpaceBattles [[http://forums.spacebattles.com Forum]], done in "round robin" format.

You can download a PDF version of the story [[http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d0lf0849m68m8vc here]], courtesy of @/{{dalekandrews}}/Dalek Ix.

** The agent who accompanies Major Staedele to interrogate a pirate is [[HugoWeaving H.W.]] [[Film/TheMatrix Smith]]. The prisoner's name? [[Film/TheMatrix Thomas Anderson]].

** [[{{Starcraft}} "Initiate SCV rush." And Private First Class Edmund Duke]]

** “Some of ‘em look like they could’ve walked off the set of MadMax,”

Starting, on Earth, shortly after the events of ''The Bear and the Dragon'', this story is a collaborative effort by members of the SpaceBattles [[http://forums.spacebattles.com Forum]], done in "round robin" format.

* MeleeATrois: GDI comes to Antallos to let Vorax know what they thought about his little stunt. The next day, notorious pirate Redjack Ryan shows up looking demanding the coordinates to Motherlode (a.k.a. Earth). The day after that, a Draconis Combine regiment shows up looking for Ryan, who burned his way across the Combine to get there. The day after ''that'', a Federated Suns RCT shows up tracking the Dracs. [[spoiler: Narrowly ''Averted'' due to some quick actions on GDI's part, and the fact that the Dracs and [=FedSuns=] forces break off to kick each other around instead.]]

** "[[DirtyHarry 'Do I feel lucky? Well, do you feel lucky, Benson? Do you?]]"

** Two settlements on New Dallas are called Al-[[Literature/XWingSeries Isard]] and Al-[[TheThrawnTrilogy Pelleaon]].

In 2012, the story ground to a halt due to constant argument. In mid 2013, the subforum was dissolved. Right before the end, someone suggested trying again in a couple of years. Well, we'll see...

** Two settlements on New Dallas are called Al-[[XWingSeries Isard]] and Al-[[TheThrawnTrilogy Pelleaon]].

** A deliberately InvokedTrope: The very first fully-functional Earth-made 'Mech is an [[MobileSuitGundam RX-78 Gundam]].

* {{Defictionalization}}: The TabletopGame/BattleTech game exists in the Clancyverse. Entire teams of researchers and analysts work on distinguishing what's real and what was Game Balance or Authorial Fiat.
** Earth's Planetary defense force, as mentioned above, are officially named the [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Global Defense Initiative]]
** The first Earth-born 'Mech factories and design labs are in Japan. Naturally, the very first Earth-made Battlemech would be none other than a [[MobileSuitGundam Gundam]]. GDI later deploys [=GMs=].
*** In itself only possible through making a 'Frankenmech' of a Shadow Hawk chassis over Hunchback legs. All they had to do afterwards was to remove the shoulder gun mount and change the head styling. The 'bubble-head' GM is a 50-ton part-by-part knock-off, and fittingly quite mediocre.
*** Japan's entry into the Mech-developed field rather than mere research was itself driven by realizing the pirates that attacked them had an intact [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Stinger LAM]]. Cue the formation of a new super-conglomerate to pick apart that technology. The GM and VF projects were situated in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Hakone]].

* NamesTheSame: President Jack Ryan and infamous SpacePirate Redjack Ryan, caused a few chuckles.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, the authors were discussing whether to go with C-Earth or RealLife Earth. The [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=158593 Non-canon Stories thread]] also has some posts that will not make canon. The discussion threads, if you dare brave them, also have older versions of posts that made it to the Story Only thread.

** Earth's Planetary defense force, as mentioned above, are officially named the [[CommandAndConquer Global Defense Initiative]]

** "So... what is it all about this time? [[TheSalvationWar Are we being invaded by the Legions of Hell under the command of General Abigor?]]"