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Act IV: Deuteronomy
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 1: Burning Bright
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
I still say you're wrong Luke. There's no Tigers in South America.
Sure there are, in a zoo!
Next you'll be telling us that there are Tygers in England too.
Well, certainly not in Peru. I'll give you that. No Tigers there or in Bolivia.
Why are we coming here again? I thought we were going to go straight back to the United States!
Nope, we're taking one more side trip.
Why?
Boys, it's really simple. It's all about Nitrogen!
Who let you in again?
I'm not sure how, but he found us!
Shh. Listen up. The haber process hasn't been invented yet. We don't have access to synthetic ammonia which means...
Bat guano?
Really? We need more bat guano.
Yes! You can get quality nitrates from Salt Peter. Or KNO3 for the educated.
So where does Sulphur come into it?
Boy, did they not teach you how to make gunpowder?
Well, we don't use much black powder these days.
Sulphur is a catalyst. You need 75 percent Potassium Nitrate, 10 percent Sulphur and 15 percent charcoal.
6 KNO3 + C7H4O + 2 S → K2CO3 + K2SO4 + K2S + 4 CO2 + 2 CO + 2 H2O + 3 N2
Uh, I'm not following here.
Are you slow, boy! We gotta go get those Nitrates! Then we can build the finest explosives this side of Krupp!
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 1: Burning Bright
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
I still say you're wrong Luke. There's no Tigers in South America.
Sure there are, in a zoo!
Next you'll be telling us that there are Tygers in England too.
Well, certainly not in Peru. I'll give you that. No Tigers there or in Bolivia.
Why are we coming here again? I thought we were going to go straight back to the United States!
Nope, we're taking one more side trip.
Why?
Boys, it's really simple. It's all about Nitrogen!
Who let you in again?
I'm not sure how, but he found us!
Shh. Listen up. The haber process hasn't been invented yet. We don't have access to synthetic ammonia which means...
Bat guano?
Really? We need more bat guano.
Yes! You can get quality nitrates from Salt Peter. Or KNO3 for the educated.
So where does Sulphur come into it?
Boy, did they not teach you how to make gunpowder?
Well, we don't use much black powder these days.
Sulphur is a catalyst. You need 75 percent Potassium Nitrate, 10 percent Sulphur and 15 percent charcoal.
6 KNO3 + C7H4O + 2 S → K2CO3 + K2SO4 + K2S + 4 CO2 + 2 CO + 2 H2O + 3 N2
Uh, I'm not following here.
Are you slow, boy! We gotta go get those Nitrates! Then we can build the finest explosives this side of Krupp!
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Oo-er! The Boys are going to get a Bigger Bang! Could this mean you might actually be ableto afford some artillery in the near future? 
Artillery? We don't need no steeenking artillery!
Actually the 1st Texan Rifles and the 1st Virginian Rifles have artillery brigades. (part of the 10 division Army of Northern Virginia), currently commanded by General Longstreet.
While the bulk of the army is cavalry, we have 9 divisions of infantry (2 with artillery brigades), and a dragoon (Hood's TX Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Army of Northern Virginia looks like this:
1st Texan Cavalry [Dragoons]
1st Texan Rifles [Artillery]
1st Virginian Rifles [Artillery]
2nd Virginian Rifles
1st Tennessee Rifles
1st North Carolina Rifles
1st South Carolina Rifles
1st Alabama Rifles
1st Mississippi Rifles
1st North Carolina has the most experience with +10.5.
Most native divisions have around 2.5-3 experience which is quite good.
Longstreet has 'disciplined, school of firepower' which means he gets +6 firepower. The division has slightly less than Steel Breech loading Artillery. We would give up about 10 percent firepower on the 4th level and about 25 percent on the top level.
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Act IV: Deuteronomy
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 2: Forest of the Night
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
Master, what are your plans? The Rebels are seeking more raw resources...
Never fret - Vader. I have something up my sleeve. Someone who will pursue these Rebels and destroy them once and for all.
Someone who hunts the Most Dangerous Game.
Sir, I just checked, that book didn't come out until 1924. You wouldn't use that phrase in a Victoria game.
I find your lack of faith disturbing!
Enough, Vader. Our little friends in Peru won't have a clue that they are being hunted in the deep dark and vast jungles.
Deserts, it had to be deserts!
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 2: Forest of the Night
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
Master, what are your plans? The Rebels are seeking more raw resources...
Never fret - Vader. I have something up my sleeve. Someone who will pursue these Rebels and destroy them once and for all.
Someone who hunts the Most Dangerous Game.
Sir, I just checked, that book didn't come out until 1924. You wouldn't use that phrase in a Victoria game.
I find your lack of faith disturbing!
Enough, Vader. Our little friends in Peru won't have a clue that they are being hunted in the deep dark and vast jungles.
Deserts, it had to be deserts!
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It beats snakes, though.
Well, how much good is a predator going to be in the scorching deserts of Peru? I wonder if that would interfere with his heat vision? Then again, the Duke Bros. won't find any convenient mud to make themselves invisible, or the wood and vines to fashion impromptu booby traps and a bow and arrow. I think they need MacGyver right now. Or one of Murdock's Big Booms.
Yes. The episode is the Pandemic 2: Startling (it's a two episode bit, Season 12). Pretty funny parody of Cloverfield and Land of the Lost.
Major Alan 'Dutch' Schaefer? Or perhaps the "amazing rotary machine gun like Blaine had in Predator"? (I love Armageddon and Armageddon II: The B-Movie by Robert Rankin)
Act IV: Deuteronomy
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 3: Distant deeps
Clara, isn't this remarkable?
Emmitt, it's just out of this world.
I feel strongly *attracted* by an irresistable force of nature.
Gravity?
It is *grave*, indeed.
Uh, Doc, I hate to interrupt but we've got *problems*.
What?
This photograph! Your grave is back again...
Great scott! What danger could we possibly be in? You don't think the Dukes?
GET. DOWN. NOW.
Whoa!
Who are you?
Your clothes, give them to me.
Come with me if you want to live.
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 3: Distant deeps
Clara, isn't this remarkable?
Emmitt, it's just out of this world.
I feel strongly *attracted* by an irresistable force of nature.
Gravity?
It is *grave*, indeed.
Uh, Doc, I hate to interrupt but we've got *problems*.
What?
This photograph! Your grave is back again...
Great scott! What danger could we possibly be in? You don't think the Dukes?
GET. DOWN. NOW.
Whoa!
Who are you?
Your clothes, give them to me.
Come with me if you want to live.
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All the better to, er, hide your body's heat signature?
Do like the look on Clara's face as she's told to disrobe by the Ahnold.
Yes, they are going to have to drop in the sand to lose their heat signature. You asked how it would work in the desert. It works just fine, at night. Deserts are cold. It can be like -20 C in the Atacama desert.
It can be like -20 C in the Atacama desert.
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Yes, they are going to have to drop in the sand to lose their heat signature. You asked how it would work in the desert. It works just fine, at night. Deserts are cold.
Well, considering Antacrtica is technically is a desert, yes, deserts can be very cold.
Act IV: Deuteronomy
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 4: The Lamb
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Well, guys, uh. Still less awkward than the time I met my mother...
Who exactly are you, anyways? And how did you know to find us, here? And what is that THING that is chasing us?
One of those strong silent types, eh?
Doc, maybe he's a time traveller just like us? That's how he knew to find us!
Too hokey. Who would believe a story that revolved around sending one man back in the past to save the future?
Uh, Doc?
If he could see in the dark from this distance - that THING, he must be using infrared! That would explain why Buster Keaton over here had us strip down! To conceal our heat signature! Brilliant! Now he can't see us to shoot us. We're safe!
Perhaps we should be keeping quiet?
Look, Doc. If someone sent him back in time to rescue us, maybe that's how the THING came here too? He was sent back in time.
Why send just one person? If you've got control over time, it makes no sense to me. Can one man really change the future?
You! Again!
Hasta La Vista Baby!
An... Alien?
You are safe.
Chapter 5: The Tyger
Part 4: The Lamb
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Well, guys, uh. Still less awkward than the time I met my mother...
Who exactly are you, anyways? And how did you know to find us, here? And what is that THING that is chasing us?
One of those strong silent types, eh?
Doc, maybe he's a time traveller just like us? That's how he knew to find us!
Too hokey. Who would believe a story that revolved around sending one man back in the past to save the future?
Uh, Doc?
If he could see in the dark from this distance - that THING, he must be using infrared! That would explain why Buster Keaton over here had us strip down! To conceal our heat signature! Brilliant! Now he can't see us to shoot us. We're safe!
Perhaps we should be keeping quiet?
Look, Doc. If someone sent him back in time to rescue us, maybe that's how the THING came here too? He was sent back in time.
Why send just one person? If you've got control over time, it makes no sense to me. Can one man really change the future?
You! Again!
Hasta La Vista Baby!
An... Alien?
You are safe.
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