HFQ Official Snippet #9

Keith_w wrote:

USMA74 wrote:Saturday will mark the anniversary of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt.

Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Henry V, William Shakespeare

I did a lousy ascii representation of the archer salute to the French, but when I posted it, it crunched the spaces down to 1.

Good man!

The 599th anniversary is surely worth commemorating - how could RFC miss such a day

All right, so here's another question that struck me.

The roster lists "half a dozen troopships" in the attacked convoy, which was heading from Tellesburg to Siddar City.


I thought all of the Marines and ICA units were either already gone from Old Charis, or still in Chisholm. So...if no one has asked already, where did additional (presumably trained) troops come from?

I would have thought that new enlistees would be heading from Tellesberg, etc, towards Chisholm for training, not the front.

AClone wrote:All right, so here's another question that struck me.

The roster lists "half a dozen troopships" in the attacked convoy, which was heading from Tellesburg to Siddar City.


I thought all of the Marines and ICA units were either already gone from Old Charis, or still in Chisholm. So...if no one has asked already, where did additional (presumably trained) troops come from?

I would have thought that new enlistees would be heading from Tellesberg, etc, towards Chisholm for training, not the front.

My guess on this is that they would indeed be heading for the front. We know that men are being recruited and freshly trained all the time. This could have been the latest batch.

Don

pokermind wrote:Fellow posters we must remember how much steel railroads require for their tracks before blithely suggesting miles of railroad and that on Safehold steel production is a bottleneck.

Assuming of course you insist on making the entire thing out of steel instead of taking a shortcut and using something like wood. Doing it right with steel would be out of the picture for the forseeable future, it is still very much a bottleneck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johore_Wooden_Railway

Many early tracks were in fact constructed of wood. This proved a far inferior track material compared to steel, they had a tendency to wear out (and quickly), and could not withstand the weights of the large locomotives that came along.

Its not like the church (or Charis) hasn't cut corners before and gone to a wooden construction to get the job done in a hurry, like wooden locks, or Galleons made out of unseasoned wood. Or that the Church doesn't have an excess population of peasants/serfs from this lovely place called Harchong that could be required to maintain said wooden tracks.

AClone wrote:All right, so here's another question that struck me.

The roster lists "half a dozen troopships" in the attacked convoy, which was heading from Tellesburg to Siddar City.


I thought all of the Marines and ICA units were either already gone from Old Charis, or still in Chisholm. So...if no one has asked already, where did additional (presumably trained) troops come from?

I would have thought that new enlistees would be heading from Tellesberg, etc, towards Chisholm for training, not the front.

Somewhere in the Convoy Escort thread RFC said the troopships came from Corisande to Emerald where they linked up with the cargo carriers which had come from Tellesberg to pick up some mysterious stuff being manufactured in Emerald. The two convoys merged in Emerald and continued on to Siddar City. My old brain also seems to remember him saying the originating troopship escort turned around and returned to Corisande with another convoy.

PLEASE don't jump up and say the troopship escort should have remained with the troopships and not returned to Corisande since The Anvil is much closer to Desnair and all the piratical privateering bases. Not you, AClone,this is addressed to the more excitable members.

Randomiser wrote:We're not really due a fix, er snippet, till about the 28th but no harm in begging, pleading and abasing ourselves.

True, but your groveling might have been more effective if you'd recalled that in addition to all those other minor commemorative dates, today is also the 62nd October 24th since a rainy day in Cleveland, Ohio, when Alice Godard Weber gave birth to a baby boy who grew up to annoy the hell out of everyone around him.

Can't quite recall what she decided to name him . . . .

And it's not time for another snippet yet, which means that I refer you to an early scene in Monty Python's "Quest for the Holy Grail."

Cleveland huh? Well that explains a lot. I was there this summer. It's nuts there.

runsforcelery wrote:

Randomiser wrote:We're not really due a fix, er snippet, till about the 28th but no harm in begging, pleading and abasing ourselves.

True, but your groveling might have been more effective if you'd recalled that in addition to all those other minor commemorative dates, today is also the 62nd October 24th since a rainy day in Cleveland, Ohio, when Alice Godard Weber gave birth to a baby boy who grew up to annoy the hell out of everyone around him.

Can't quite recall what she decided to name him . . . .

And it's not time for another snippet yet, which means that I refer you to an early scene in Monty Python's "Quest for the Holy Grail."

"today is also the 62nd October 24th since a rainy day in Cleveland, Ohio, when Alice Godard Weber gave birth to a baby"
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Happy Birthday RFC??

Steve

We fans did notice RFC's birthday on the Honorverse forum as it is also the day used for the first landing on Manticore, First post on http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6374:

Neitz wrote:Today we celebrate great beginnings for the Honorverse:

24 October, 775 PD: The sublight colony ship Jason departs the Sol System for the Manticore Binary System

24 October, 1952 CE: Birth of author David Weber.

Of course Mange and I chimed in.

Poker

A belated/ontime (stupid timezones) happy birthday RFC!