Information I'd love to know

They'd basically have to lie stupidly and get caught in it before you could catch them. (Or fail to lie about something that they should have - like a wanted criminal on their crew)

Vs a military grade inertial compensator and say a ship with a "tuner problem" headed towards a grav-wave? Honor/Fearless CL-56 are already in possession of a communication showing that Haven was up to it's elbows in the "native insurrection", and the interrogate by comms question is simply a pretext to "play cop" and say "pull over to the side of the road, Capt. Coglin".

If it wasn't a Q-ship, then even that would have stopped a communique after Sirius reached the hyperspace limit and went off to the Havenite task force. A more interesting bit is that Coglin was planning on telling that task force to stand down because Honor's marines and pinnaces had prevented any pretext for seizing the planet and terminus to begin with, which is WAY less fun for us as readers than that first death ride, and worse yet doesn't put Honor in the Heavy Cruiser version of Fearless in HotQ.

cthia wrote:<SNIP>

In matters like this, wasn't the Solarian League the neutral arbitrator in the past, in situations such as this, if something had gone down, and needed to be adjudicated?

Who will substitute for the League in this fashion now?

The League was seen as neutral (and generally was, except for the corruption and influence of the trans-stellars), so it acted as arbitrator when asked. It had the added advantage of being big enough to smack people if they then ignore the settlement.

Eventually, a new default may be decided on, or it will be some mix of the major powers. Possibly, they will enter into some form of treaty to do it together. Officially, it would still be non-binding, but if you make a habit of ignoring findings against you (and taking actions that result in findings against you), they might start being grumpy (higher tolls, more scrutiny, etc.).

What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

(I know, I know, I've been championing Henke/Tourville and Oversteegen/Hearns for months. Unfortunately, Michael and Michelle don't seem interested in logic....)

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Why Yes, yes you are.





Seriously, I see them closer to Brother/Sister. (I mean, how many times have you wanted to give your sibling a dope slap--sometimes just for General Principles)?

Hutch wrote:

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Why Yes, yes you are.





Seriously, I see them closer to Brother/Sister. (I mean, how many times have you wanted to give your sibling a dope slap--sometimes just for General Principles)?

Honestly, I waver a bit. Sometimes I do see them as more of a bickering brother-sister duo.

But then, I also grew up on Han and Leia.

Because sometimes you want to Dope Slap your sibling no matter how much (or sometimes because of, as my own very Oversteegen-ish brother can attest) you love them -- and sometimes you just want to Dope Slap someone because you can't admit that you'd really rather be doing other, much more R-rated things with them.

Hutch wrote:

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Why Yes, yes you are.





Seriously, I see them closer to Brother/Sister. (I mean, how many times have you wanted to give your sibling a dope slap--sometimes just for General Principles)?

Gotta 'gree with Hutch here. Michelle's too much of a groupie. She'll fall for someone in her harem. Oversteegen's too much like family. She'll require someone more ... common. Someone who's acquired good social skills but not so loftily born. It's one reason she and Honor got on so well. Michelle's not into the aristocratic type. Which is just as well since Mesa and Murphy might call upon her need to marry a commoner.

Hutch wrote:

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Why Yes, yes you are.





Seriously, I see them closer to Brother/Sister. (I mean, how many times have you wanted to give your sibling a dope slap--sometimes just for General Principles)?

cthia wrote:Gotta 'gree with Hutch here. Michelle's too much of a groupie. She'll fall for someone in her harem. Oversteegen's too much like family. She'll require someone more ... common. Someone who's acquired good social skills but not so loftily born. It's one reason she and Honor got on so well. Michelle's not into the aristocratic type. Which is just as well since Mesa and Murphy might call upon her need to marry a commoner.

Personally, I think it's very possible Michelle could fall in love with an Andermani. Just not one so loftily born. After all, Germans love black skin. It's been fashionable to them since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin when Jesse Owens "single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy."

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Nope. Of course, getting them in a position where doing anything about it wouldn't be inappropriate is going to take a while ...

drothgery wrote:

roseandheather wrote:What would I like to know?

I'd like to know if I'm the only one who sees sexual tension between Henke and Oversteegen.

Nope. Of course, getting them in a position where doing anything about it wouldn't be inappropriate is going to take a while ...

I wonder which'll come first... their breaking point, or Michael getting transferred to a different fleet?

...I may have spent a little too much time contemplating this. And I have no regrets.

Are we absolutely sure that the Solarian League - some rogue element thereof, isn't in cahoots with the MALign, even if forcibly so?

What if the MALign, and it seems that they would, have their own version of the North Hollow files with a noose around key Solarians' necks. Solarians who may know exactly where the Mesan bolthole is.