Hunting the MAlignment: MWW Clue's

SharkHunter wrote:I gotta ask, is there a post that has the acronym series explained in it? I've figured out most of them but... What or who is MWW?

SharkHunter wrote:My thoughts:

1. They're not on or headed towards any of the RF systems that Albrecht Detweiler and Co. identified in a prior conversation as having "iffy" leadership. I don't remember which book has the textev for the names of those systems however.

2. They're not headed close to Beowulf or "Beowulf daughter colony" for any reason whatsoever. That would be like handing an easier discovery of the Detweilers alive and well to the BSC, etc. on a gold platter.

3. Astrographically, they'll be headed towards "inhabited galactic center" or a world with reasonable wormhole proximity to it. That might point to ONE of the RF systems. Can't influence the flow of events quickly enough from the back-side of nowhere.

So any clues we detect have to make sense in light of those three items. Yes/no?

RF=Renaissance Factor BSC = Beowulf Survey Corps

Draken wrote: Is it possible for Torch having another wormhole? If so, it would explained why Mesa invested in it large amounts of cash.

Hutch wrote:So, the Malignment has disappeared to Darius and nobody knows where the heart of the Evil Conspiracy (tm) is.

But like any good mystery, the MWW has left clues on how they might be found.

Two are rather recent; Anton's research on the missing Mesans and the two 'Non-GAUL' escorted personnel, both in CoG.

Hutch wrote:But that doesn't mean that there isn't other clues out in the Honorverse.

I note that in Torch of Freedom, Drs. Kare and Wix remarked about the 'kick' in the wormhole readings and were noticably absent when the Harvest Joy made it's first (and final) passage through the Torch wormhole.

Now, spending several pages of text to show that these two gentlemen were not killed and that they have every reason to examine the 'killer' wormhole closely (and knowing as we do where that wormhole eventually leads), makes me think that we have not heard the last of our two eminent scientists and that they have a role to play in unravelling the mystery.

We shall see, eventually.

Torch of Freedom wrote:"And that's my point," Berry said. "From what you're saying, it sounds to me like the return charting ought to be pretty straightforward. They aren't going to need you or Dr. Wix to do it, at any rate, right?"
"Right," Kare acknowledged with manifest unwillingness. "But—"
"But I'm afraid that means you're staying home, Doctor." There was understanding, and more than a little compassion, in the teenaged monarch's voice, yet that voice was also firm. "I know we're almost certainly worrying about nothing. And I know how much I always hated it when Daddy told me I couldn't do something I really wanted to do. Especially when I knew that he knew I wasn't really going to get into trouble if I did it. And I know you're going to be really pissed off if I don't let you go along with Captain Zachary. Despite which, I'm not going to."
"Your Majesty—" Kare began, but Berry shook her head.
"Doctor," she said with a very slight yet undeniably impish smile, "you're grounded."

SharkHunter wrote:My thoughts:

1. They're not on or headed towards any of the RF systems that Albrecht Detweiler and Co. identified in a prior conversation as having "iffy" leadership. I don't remember which book has the textev for the names of those systems however.

2. They're not headed close to Beowulf or "Beowulf daughter colony" for any reason whatsoever. That would be like handing an easier discovery of the Detweilers alive and well to the BSC, etc. on a gold platter.

3. Astrographically, they'll be headed towards "inhabited galactic center" or a world with reasonable wormhole proximity to it. That might point to ONE of the RF systems. Can't influence the flow of events quickly enough from the back-side of nowhere.

So any clues we detect have to make sense in light of those three items. Yes/no?

RF=Renaissance Factor BSC = Beowulf Survey Corps

Hutch wrote:So, the Malignment has disappeared to Darius and nobody knows where the heart of the Evil Conspiracy (tm) is.

But like any good mystery, the MWW has left clues on how they might be found.

Two are rather recent; Anton's research on the missing Mesans and the two 'Non-GAUL' escorted personnel, both in CoG.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't other clues out in the Honorverse.

I note that in Torch of Freedom, Drs. Kare and Wix remarked about the 'kick' in the wormhole readings and were noticably absent when the Harvest Joy made it's first (and final) passage through the Torch wormhole.

Now, spending several pages of text to show that these two gentlemen were not killed and that they have every reason to examine the 'killer' wormhole closely (and knowing as we do where that wormhole eventually leads), makes me think that we have not heard the last of our two eminent scientists and that they have a role to play in unravelling the mystery.

We shall see, eventually.

JohnRoth wrote:...The biggest clue is probably Albrecht's movements from the RF meeting, the meeting on Darius and then back home to when he issues the next set of orders. Getting all 11 of the RF heads of state together for a meeting -- and the implication is that they do this regularly -- implies that they're all probably less than two weeks away from Mannerheim -- including wormhole transits and using the streak drive. That doesn't say anything about Albrecht, since Mesa is essentially the same distance as Visigoth, and Darius is right next door to Mannerheim (one wormhole transit and 10 ly).

Mission of Honor wrote:"In the meantime, though," his father said rather more briskly, "I want you and Daniel to come to Mannerheim with me."