Information I'd love to know

roseandheather wrote:

Uroboros wrote:

Eloise Pritchart's time as Brigade Commander Delta.

I might actually give my right arm (or just obscene amounts of money) for a novel that was essentially Eloise's life story up until the Grand Alliance.

cthia wrote:Three questions.

1. Did Alfred Harrington know about Young's attempted assault on his daughter?

2. Memory singers have perfect memory. Do normal treecats at least have good short term memory, much better than a human perhaps?

3. Can treecats identify people from the taste of their minds? If one treecat knew a certain human was a criminal element and that element escaped, yet the treecat tasted his mind glow beforehand, could that treecat put out an APB on that mind glow, that would identify a perpetrator even if he underwent cosmetic surgery?

SWM wrote:

cthia wrote:
Three questions.

1. Did Alfred Harrington know about Young's attempted assault on his daughter?

I seem to recall textev that he did.

2. Memory singers have perfect memory. Do normal treecats at least have good short term memory, much better than a human perhaps?

I don't think there is any evidence that they do.

3. Can treecats identify people from the taste of their minds? If one treecat knew a certain human was a criminal element and that element escaped, yet the treecat tasted his mind glow beforehand, could that treecat put out an APB on that mind glow, that would identify a perpetrator even if he underwent cosmetic surgery?

Yes. The text cites several instances where treecats identified humans from a distance by their mind glow, without even seeing them.

In the late 19th Century PD, he captured his junior wife, Judith. She was the daughter of Grayson merchants, taken as a prisoner when Templeton attacked and captured her parents' ship.

He married her when she was twelve and began trying to impregnate her. She had her first miscarriage a year later and a second six months after that; at sixteen she became pregnant again with a girl that Templeton wanted to abort because of his preferring male children. Judith was determined to protect the child and escape from her captivity; she had been taught to read by her parents, a fact she had hidden from everyone for years.

cthia wrote:I don't know how advanced Masadan medicine is. I'd say, not very. At any rate, I'm surprised that a Masadan, or any descendant of Grayson, would ever adopt the practice of 'abortion' as a gender filter, since numerous abortions could cause an inability of a woman to bear any gender.

kzt wrote:

cthia wrote:I don't know how advanced Masadan medicine is. I'd say, not very. At any rate, I'm surprised that a Masadan, or any descendant of Grayson, would ever adopt the practice of 'abortion' as a gender filter, since numerous abortions could cause an inability of a woman to bear any gender.

From their PoV there isn't exactly a shortage of women. And it depends on how it's done. Given the nature of their society it seems kind of a strange decision, it's not like he's going to be bankrupted by the dowry or something.

cthia wrote::( Re Ephraim Templeton and Judith Winton

In the late 19th Century PD, he captured his junior wife, Judith. She was the daughter of Grayson merchants, taken as a prisoner when Templeton attacked and captured her parents' ship.

He married her when she was twelve and began trying to impregnate her. She had her first miscarriage a year later and a second six months after that; at sixteen she became pregnant again with a girl that Templeton wanted to abort because of his preferring male children. Judith was determined to protect the child and escape from her captivity; she had been taught to read by her parents, a fact she had hidden from everyone for years.

I don't know how advanced Masadan medicine is. I'd say, not very. At any rate, I'm surprised that a Masadan, or any descendant of Grayson, would ever adopt the practice of 'abortion' as a gender filter, since numerous abortions could cause an inability of a woman to bear any gender.

kzt wrote:

cthia wrote:I don't know how advanced Masadan medicine is. I'd say, not very. At any rate, I'm surprised that a Masadan, or any descendant of Grayson, would ever adopt the practice of 'abortion' as a gender filter, since numerous abortions could cause an inability of a woman to bear any gender.

From their PoV there isn't exactly a shortage of women. And it depends on how it's done. Given the nature of their society it seems kind of a strange decision, it's not like he's going to be bankrupted by the dowry or something.

SWM wrote:
It's not that strange a decision, given his obvious misogyny.

SWM wrote:Why exactly would he care whether one of his women was unable to bear children? He had plenty of women, and didn't care on an individual basis about their physical health, as long as he was able to get sons.