Shadow Of Victory

JohnRoth wrote:Here it is. Notice that he's talking about a score (approx 20) of Frontier Security sectors. Visigoth is a league member, not a Frontier Security protectorate.

Mission of Honor wrote:Which meant they were absolutely essential. When the Manties hammered the SLN into wreckage yet again—when the carefully primed "spontaneous rebellions" broke out in a dozen places simultaneously in the Verge as the League Navy's reputation crumbled, and when the score of Frontier Security governors who'd been carefully prepared by their own versions of Aldona Anisimovna followed the example of the Maya Sector and unilaterally assumed emergency powers in order to "protect" the citizens of their sectors—the men and women around this table with Albert Detweiler would emerge as the leaders of a new interstellar power.

darrell wrote:

JohnRoth wrote:Actually, the MAlign is setting up for a number of sectors to secede, with Maya Sector leading the pack. I'm a bit too lazy to dig out the textev at the moment, but it's said specifically in one of the Detweiller scenes.

The interesting question is: who's their agent on the scene?

Not quite. They are setting up for a dozen systems to secede, not sectors.

I suspect that they are fairly close to mesa, and would expect one of them to be visigoth, I have no idea wheter the others are core or shell worlds, would not surprise me if some of them are anti-genetic slavery worlds such as smoking frog.