BrightSoul wrote:Really? He can borrow mine... I have a couple.
Family's favorite gift for me to remind the classic procrastinator to stop procrastinating.DrakBibliophile wrote:David Weber will post snippets when he gets "a round tuit".
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by DrakBibliophile » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:27 pm | |
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Like this:
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by PeterZ » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:32 pm | |
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So, now you guys just need a "back tuit", huh?
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by Joat42 » Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:23 pm | |
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Why o why do I have a mental image of RFC sitting in his chair reading this forum and chuckling heartily (and possible evilly) at our bumbling speculations....
--- Jack of all trades and destructive tinkerer. Anyone who have simple solutions for complex problems is a fool. |
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by KNick » Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:20 pm | |
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Because he probably is? _
Try to take a fisherman's fish and you will be tomorrows bait!!! |
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by BrightSoul » Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:59 pm | |
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No probably about it, or did you miss his post a couple pages back? |
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by runsforcelery » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:39 pm | |
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*My bold. Who said they aren't leaving any clues? They aren't leaving clues leading to their identities or to their organization, but while I hate to disillusion you about real life, there are frequently intelligence agencies who don't have a clue (figuratively speaking, in this case) about the existence of a threat organization until it bites them on the butt. At that point they start looking for it, but without a loose end to pull on, it's very difficult to unravel a tight, cell-based organization, especially when you don't have the forensic tools present day investigators and intelligence agencies take for granted. Rayno's got lots of clues; he just don't have any that give him the information he needs . . . yet, at least. "Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. |
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by Weird Harold » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:26 pm | |
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Like this one? .
. . Answers! I got lots of answers! (Now if I could just find the right questions.) |
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by alj_sf » Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:24 am | |
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Sure, many agencies did that for years, the most flagrant example being probably KGB in UK, but wait 10, 20 years or more and things start to unravel at least to the point that people start to notice something is amiss. In a semi medevial society, without the modern technical means, I can accept easily the existence of secret societies hiding successfully for centuries but their mere existence will be known or at least suspected sooner or later if they do active operations and not simply collect open sources. St Zherneau is passive, operating in a place where the opponent is weak, so it is quite possible. A similar org in Zion is harder but still plausible. An active org, but fully unknown ? Here I have to raise a bit of ruckus. Now as you said, unravelling a tight cell based org is very hard, and the org can easily survive being partially discovered. An org hiding within the hierarchy of the inquisition is probably the simplest but here again, I dont think they can afford to be active. I cannot remember any historical example of secret society which was both operationally active and successfully hidden for more than a century. Even the Nizaris or the Sikh assassin sect I dont remember the name were known about quickly. this is not a big problem, there is a bit a break of suspension of disbelief but the story is still great. |
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by FriarBob » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:59 am | |
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Umm... they've been "operationally" active for less than THREE years... not a hundred... Before that, they were just in the buildup phase and/or the pure intelligence-gathering phase (and/or didn't exist at all). So they weren't "operationally" active yet. |
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by alj_sf » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:22 am | |
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Again, the operational skills shown are not compatible with newbies in command. The first operation they did we know of was the rescue of the wife of the ex-archbishop and they did that without any flaw while said wife was under inquisition surveillance. So the surveillance team (2 mens I think Rayno said) was either compromised or killed too. In the first case, they have seriously deep claws embeded in the inquisition, and that dont happen in little time. In the second they are very skilled, as even if the inquisitors were not expecting such attacks, they seem to be well trained from other textev. In both cases it suggest deep experience |
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