Thanks for remembering one of the points I forgot!
Now if I could only remember what the other one was.
L
fallsfromtrees wrote:*quote="lyonheart"*Hi Don,
You're right, its certainly not going to happen.
While it indeed might well be possible to snag such a passing rock with a recon skimmer, the odds of finding one when it was possible [when the skimmer wouldn't appear to threaten the OBS and destroyed] are remote, Merlin and the inner circle would never condone such an atrocity in the first place, so it wouldn't happen.
It would definitely put Merlin and the inner circle on the same bottom moral expedient level as Clyntahn, so it wouldn't happen.
Given how Merlin agonized over killing just the semaphore station crews, around 50 or so, killing a million or 2 innocents would make him suicidal, so it wouldn't happen.
Which is why I tell you three times it wouldn't happen.
L
*quote*n7axw wrote:*quote="OrlandoNative"*Actually, probably the easiest, and least bloody (if one doesn't mind a single city of "collateral damage" would have been to use the skimmers spacial abilities to find and de-orbit a rock onto Zion. A little underground "prep" work in having the SNARC's putting up posters predicting the "cleansing" of the Church hierarchy by the same means used in the "Wars against the Fallen"; coupled with that happening, could have easily resulted in massive changes in the Church's direction; especially if some particular doctrinal points were declared to be in error. After all, if "God and the Archangels" did it *once*, there's no reason they couldn't have done it again; and, after all, the "fallen" were originally Archangels too; so the concept of men, and, for that matter, even angels and archangels falling into error, corruption, and/or evil isn't unknown.*quote*
Perhaps that could be done except that Merlin and Nimue have already rejected the idea because of all the innocents who would die because of such an act.
Don
And for a practical reason, destroying the Temple in such a fashion has a good chance of destroying the controls for the OBs, which means you may well NEVER be able to move beyond steam, because you have no way of disarming the OBS. In this case the moral thing to not do is also the smart thing to not do.