(SPOILERS) Uncomprisingly good

runsforcelery wrote:

TangoLima wrote:If AH survived maybe he will be the next first space lord.

I wouldn't dare! God only knows what disaster would come calling on him if he was First Space Lord!

The mind boggles!

YOU LEAVE MY BABY ALONE DO I MAKE MYSELF QUITE CLEAR

LEAVE HIM *ALONE* OR SO HELP ME.... :SHAKES FIST:

Hard Luck Higgins.
Sounds like a sour dough prospector.

PeterZ wrote:I suspect you are. Those self-centered idiots deserve what they get.

Let's see now.....which Alliance member state has the death penalty? Not sure but let them have jurisdiction over the trial.

Punishment (if convicted) death by letting the POWs from Filereta's and Crandall's fleets have the bassids.

They were totally screwed up by the Aligment though and put in an unwinnable position from the get go. Otherwise they wouldn't have done anything other than continue the League's federal government's tradition of graft and corruption - which isn't quite so terrible considering how, by and large the League has kept peace and prosperity.

Slneezy wrote:

PeterZ wrote:I suspect you are. Those self-centered idiots deserve what they get.

Let's see now.....which Alliance member state has the death penalty? Not sure but let them have jurisdiction over the trial.

Punishment (if convicted) death by letting the POWs from Filereta's and Crandall's fleets have the bassids.

They were totally screwed up by the Aligment though and put in an unwinnable position from the get go. Otherwise they wouldn't have done anything other than continue the League's federal government's tradition of graft and corruption - which isn't quite so terrible considering how, by and large the League has kept peace and prosperity.

Recall the Protectorates? That sort of abuse of "neobarbs" is tantamount of the US abuse of Central and South America post Civil War but more brutal. Not something to be proud of.

That really isn't just a matter of harmless corruption. That sort of predatory prectice has killed many, many people. Death penalty is too good for them.

TangoLima wrote:Hard Luck Higgins.
Sounds like a sour dough prospector.

That reminds me of Jack Vance's short story "Hard Luck Diggings".

But seriously, it's good, and it gave its name to a collection of Vance's early stories, most of which I also liked.
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