Somtaaw wrote:Theemile wrote:You know, If Eric Flint or John Ringo wanted to run with it (it's not really David's style), a day in the life of Adm. Higgens would be a hilarious little short story. Along the lines of Chin at the party I mentioned earlier - He gets back to Manticore from the mind Numbing trek back from Grendelsbane to find a paycheck didn't get processed correctly, so his aircar payment bounced and it got repossessed, His apartment got burned in a fire, etc. etc.
Of course the day would end with an anxiety ridden summons to the Royal Palace.... and finally a hug from the Monarch to a subject who did got caught in the universe's crosshairs and did everything he could to keep total defeat at bay.
Really, I wouldn't be surprised if there hasn't been a Grayson "Classical Music" (ahem... C&W) song about Higgens. Of course if they did make one, His aircar would have had a truck bed, and he would have lost his dog as well.
So Higgins would basically be Webers version of Joe Buckley in Ringo's Posverse. takes the first gen suits into battle, survives a nuke going off practically in his face, an entire starship landing on his head, and years of combat on another planet. Goes back to Earth to recover from PTSD, ends up having to lead yet another unit of greenhorns, and ends up wishing he had a suit before presumably dying.
Then to top it off, by the damned Frogs nipped in and stole his mind, and used it as the template for an entire new generation of PDA's.
I know Baen seems to like beating on Buckley, but Weber has substituted Higgins in his place.
The only problem is Weber STARTED the Buckley abuse. He was first killed at 2nd Hancock. Lately, we've found his was also the name of a Brilliant Scientist who died in one of the most spactular explosions ever in the Honorverse - and the SLN has named 6 ships after him - 5 of which have died as well.....
