Information I'd love to know

I want to know a lot more about Leslie Montreau. If she's going to be the third member of Eloise's Holy Trinity (alongside Tom and Denis, my loves!), I want to know everything about her I possibly can.

(I also want to know what she looks like and what's in her wardrobe so I can cosplay her - and, hell, I just want her to get more screen time!!)

It's a pity that while we will get Tom straight off in the movie, all our other favorites will be quite a wait (assuming there are sequels at all).

I don't always dig RFC's costume descriptions in the books-- he's definitely best with uniforms!-- but yes, I NEED more details for civilian cosplay!

bunyipbelle wrote:I would like to know how Sonja Hemphills and Hamish Alexanders rivalry started. I think that I read somewhere that they have known each other since kindergarten.Did the rivalry start then? Did Sonja break Hamish's toy spaceship when she took it apart to see how it worked? Or did it start later at the academy perhaps? I would really like to know.

There's a good bit of backstory for these two in I Will Build My House of Steel.

I would like to know when Nesbitt is going to be exposed as a quasi-Mesan agent (or whatever the heck he is). I know the supposed agent is Colonel Jean-Claude who is back in Nouveau Paris last I remember. But Tony Nesbitt seems to get awfully nervous whenever Honor touches as certain subjects. I wonder if that means he knows more than he lets on...

bunyipbelle wrote:I would like to know how Sonja Hemphills and Hamish Alexanders rivalry started. I think that I read somewhere that they have known each other since kindergarten.Did the rivalry start then? Did Sonja break Hamish's toy spaceship when she took it apart to see how it worked? Or did it start later at the academy perhaps? I would really like to know.

I'm not sure if this is when it started, but it certainly got bad early in their careers based on House of Steel. Hamish was already sick and tired of hearing about mad ideas to break the tactical stagnation that had set in. Sonja, meanwhile, was pushing for new ideas and actually working on them in the same department as Prince Michael (Elizabeth's father). Part of the problem was that Hamish (as an ordinary junior line officer) wasn't cleared for anything Sonja was working on, so to him all the talk of new technologies sounded like more of the same pie in the sky nonsense, while Sonja must have been going nuts because she knew there were some game changers coming, if only they could buy enough time before they had to take on the PRH, but she couldn't actually talk about it and so couldn't convince the doubters.

saber964 wrote:

Jonathan_S wrote:Because I can't help myself a search through the ebooks turned up a couple possibilities.

The most likely is from Flag in Exile where ceramacrete was "equivalent of a plug of solid igneous rock stronger and harder than obsidian"

Another possibility would be from Shadows of Saganami which had the phrase "The expression which had given away so little turned -obsidian-hard, but even that was less flinty than his eyes"

Much less likely is the "eight-meter-polished!-obsidian column" Honor's statue is atop (Ashes of Victory)


The rest of the occurrences refer to its appearance, or sharpness (when chipped into a blade), and so wouldn't make sense in relation to the previous poster's comment.

Number 1 and 3
If DW wants a really tough rock he might try granite which is a very dense rock and very erosion resistant.

You are correct that obsidian is brittle. That is not really the same thing as hardness, though. It is true that natural granite is somewhat harder than obsidian. Artificial granite is about the same hardness as obsidian. It is a little bit odd to compare ceramacrete to obsidian in hardness, but not that bad.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with having an obsidian pedestal. Obsidian has been used for carving for millennia. If you had a large enough piece of obsidian, it would make a perfectly fine pedestal. Much softer rocks have been used as pedestals and pillars, after all, such as limestone.

Dafmeister wrote:Hamish was already sick and tired of hearing about mad ideas to break the tactical stagnation that had set in. Sonja, meanwhile, was pushing for new ideas and actually working on them in the same department as Prince Michael (Elizabeth's father).

Prince Roger. Prince Michael is Elizabeth's brother. Elizabeth's son is also Prince Roger.

drothgery wrote:

Dafmeister wrote:Hamish was already sick and tired of hearing about mad ideas to break the tactical stagnation that had set in. Sonja, meanwhile, was pushing for new ideas and actually working on them in the same department as Prince Michael (Elizabeth's father).

Prince Roger. Prince Michael is Elizabeth's brother. Elizabeth's son is also Prince Roger.

D'oh...

::a Naughty Moose responds::
Is it proven that Leslie Montreau is a woman?
In England, Leslie is (or used to be) a man's name.
Remember that Leslie Charteris once wrote a "Saint"
story in which an author with an ambiguous name was
mistaken for the opposite gender.
Taken from life, it was!

NM

roseandheather wrote:I want to know a lot more about Leslie Montreau. If she's going to be the third member of Eloise's Holy Trinity (alongside Tom and Denis, my loves!), I want to know everything about her I possibly can.

(I also want to know what she looks like and what's in her wardrobe so I can cosplay her - and, hell, I just want her to get more screen time!!)

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:::a Naughty Moose responds::
Is it proven that Leslie Montreau is a woman?
In England, Leslie is (or used to be) a man's name.
Remember that Leslie Charteris once wrote a "Saint"
story in which an author with an ambiguous name was
mistaken for the opposite gender.
Taken from life, it was!

NM

Ha! Actually, yes I do, because when Leslie took the Alliance's treaty home to Nouveau Paris in ART, Eloise specifically says that "...she didn't have to pound it anywhere." Besides, she's referred to with feminine pronouns in WoH.

But my oh my, wouldn't that have been an interesting twist?