Information I'd love to know

Abigail Hearns' cell phone number - however many multiples of 7digits that is.

sector code + planet code + hemisphere code + state code + routing code + name + number

I may have overlooked it, but searching the Pearls, I've found nothing describing any differences between male and female treecats. In most species there are differences between the two, other than the plumbing. Our own terrestrial cats vary in size between male and female. Our lions sport a full beard (mane my ass).

I vaguely recall textev somewhere stating that the male treecats are a bit larger? Am I correct there? The movie will probably add some interesting distinctions between the two.

cthia wrote:I may have overlooked it, but searching the Pearls, I've found nothing describing any differences between male and female treecats. In most species there are differences between the two, other than the plumbing. Our own terrestrial cats vary in size between male and female. Our lions sport a full beard (mane my ass).

I vaguely recall textev somewhere stating that the male treecats are a bit larger? Am I correct there? The movie will probably add some interesting distinctions between the two.

if memory serves me. Male tree cats are slightly flashier, and are the ones that have the 'age rings' around the tail.

Female treecats are much more subdued, and cream coloured. There was a brief description between treecats in uh, HH07 I think. When Honor commands the HMAMC Wayfarer, and Nimitz first encounters Samantha.

Somtaaw wrote:

cthia wrote:I may have overlooked it, but searching the Pearls, I've found nothing describing any differences between male and female treecats. In most species there are differences between the two, other than the plumbing. Our own terrestrial cats vary in size between male and female. Our lions sport a full beard (mane my ass).

I vaguely recall textev somewhere stating that the male treecats are a bit larger? Am I correct there? The movie will probably add some interesting distinctions between the two.

if memory serves me. Male tree cats are slightly flashier, and are the ones that have the 'age rings' around the tail.

Female treecats are much more subdued, and cream coloured. There was a brief description between treecats in uh, HH07 I think. When Honor commands the HMAMC Wayfarer, and Nimitz first encounters Samantha.

For the color and pattern of treecat's coats, look at the cover of
Changer of Worlds, Worlds of Honor#3.
For more information on how treecats look, see House of Steel, The Star Empire, Nonhuman Sentient Species, Treecats, Physiology.

Read the Honorvers Wikis on Treecats. In a nutshell males are cream and gray with faint ring stripes around the tail, the body is 60-70cm long with the tail doubling the length. They weigh 9-10kg with some reaching 10.5kg. Females are brown with white speckled like fawns. They weigh about 1kg less on average and are something like 10cm shorter in overall size.

I've got a question. How the hell did Chin escape Hancock station to get blamed for the disaster there? I thought her flagship got captured yet according to ALC she escaped to be scapegoated by the legisurists, only to be picked up by the CPS.

Carl wrote:I've got a question. How the hell did Chin escape Hancock station to get blamed for the disaster there? I thought her flagship got captured yet according to ALC she escaped to be scapegoated by the legisurists, only to be picked up by the CPS.

Escape pods, presumably. Or a pinnace.

roseandheather wrote:

Carl wrote:I've got a question. How the hell did Chin escape Hancock station to get blamed for the disaster there? I thought her flagship got captured yet according to ALC she escaped to be scapegoated by the legisurists, only to be picked up by the CPS.

Escape pods, presumably. Or a pinnace.

Or Space Hamsters.

R&H, Chin never impressed me as someone who would flee her duty or leave her command behind--if she was that type of commander, Theisman (and for that matter, Cachat) would never have trusted her as much as they did. IMHO.

That is one mystery that the MWW has never cleared up to my satisfaction...and probably never will.

Such is life-disappointments will be with us always.

Hutch wrote:Or Space Hamsters.

R&H, Chin never impressed me as someone who would flee her duty or leave her command behind--if she was that type of commander, Theisman (and for that matter, Cachat) would never have trusted her as much as they did. IMHO.

That is one mystery that the MWW has never cleared up to my satisfaction...and probably never will.

Such is life-disappointments will be with us always.

I don't think she did, and I don't think she would. But as Honor herself has told us time after time after time, honor, duty, and standing your ground doesn't mean getting yourself senselessly killed. If Chin knew her flagship was doomed but that there was a chance she and some of her crew could be saved, I think she would have taken it. Her responsibility was not to one ship and its crew, but to her fleet and her star nation - and both of those needed her very much alive.

And after all, Michelle Henke did the same thing.

roseandheather wrote:

Carl wrote:I've got a question. How the hell did Chin escape Hancock station to get blamed for the disaster there? I thought her flagship got captured yet according to ALC she escaped to be scapegoated by the legisurists, only to be picked up by the CPS.

Escape pods, presumably. Or a pinnace.

Textev in Field of Dishonor specifically says that "Admiral Chin surrendered." From that point onwards, she should have gone to a PoW camp with no exchanges during the war, but appears in command of the La Martine sector picket force around the time of Operation Buttercup in the short story Fanatic, written by Eric Flint. That story doesn't mention how Chin got out of Hancock, but it does mention several years of being stationed at La Martine.

I suppose it's possible that Admiral Rollins ordered Chin to personally evacuate by transferring to a destroyer or cruiser. It's also even possible Admiral Danislav allowed that ship to leave unmolested in exchange for a quicker surrendering of the rest of Chin's task force. Things were a lot more civilised between Navies before the People's Commissioners turned every battle into victory-or-death. Or defeat-and-death.