found a use for the ex-Sollie SD.

Weird Harold wrote:

Hutch wrote:So hopefully a couple of sentences on the bombs and Georgia Young (who may never be found--the Ballroom has other fish to fry right now and that lady might have been amoral and ruthless, but not stupid--and known space is big and heavily populated).

Still, we shall see.

I think we've already gotten all we're going to get on the destruction of "the Northhollow files" and her apparent disappearance.

I suspect that She's going to resurface as a serious antagonist with revenge against the Zilwiki clan and Cathy Montaine. Since the Zilwiki Clan includes Ensign Helen Ziilwiki, and Queen Berry is surrounded by ex-Ballroom fantaics, Amazons, and Elite BSC forces, I'd expect her to turn up in or near the Talbot Quadrant -- Where Helen can provide graphic and gruesome closer to the storyline.

dreamrider wrote:David does not do 'graphic and gruesome for no conceivable storyline reason.

dreamrider wrote: Oh, and New Kiev is dead, and probably dumped in space or fed into a reactor somewhere. At least, Albrecht Detweiler is satisfied that she is finished, and he's pretty demanding about things like loose ends.

drothgery wrote:

dreamrider wrote: Oh, and New Kiev is dead, and probably dumped in space or fed into a reactor somewhere. At least, Albrecht Detweiler is satisfied that she is finished, and he's pretty demanding about things like loose ends.

That's Descroix. New Kiev, having not been directly implicated in anything criminal, is simply semi-retired.

Uroboros wrote:You could probably build several cruise or passenger ships from the scrap of a single SD. In order to make it work, you'd have to completely gut and rebuild the inside, cutting through layers of armor and removing all sorts of sentisitive equipment, not to mention several hundred thousand to several million metric shitons (yes, an actual measurement) of bulkheads, consoles, engines, weapons... and then rebuilding it all.

The cost would probably be similar to building a brand new SD. And you'd still have to worry about finding civilian engines powerful enough to cart around all the battle armor that can't be removed at all because it's grown in place.

It would be like turning an aircraft carrier into a cruise liner. Ships are purpose built for a reason.

munroburton wrote:
There's enough SDs to weld together into a huge spaceborne roulette wheel, isn't there?

$1000 on 13 Black.