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by StalksInShadows » Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:29 pm | |
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If you look at the national flag on the ship that's getting attacked by the recon skimmer, it looks like it's a Charisian Navy ship. Someone defecting or friendly fire?
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by DrakBibliophile » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:22 pm | |
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Sigh.
The question of Cayleb getting Sharley pregnant while he's supposed to be in Corisande has come up before. The Word Of Weber is that they did forms of sexual play that did not involve "insert C-Rod into S-Slot".
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by phillies » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:52 pm | |
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Or false flag. See Hornblower, Horatio for iirc uses of this stunt. |
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by NinaKatarina » Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:05 pm | |
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Or it's possible that What's Under The Temple has other toys stashed down there. Nothing says that the skimmer belongs to the good guys.
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by CRC » Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:43 pm | |
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Is the Temple on top of or part of the Hamilcar?
Is the Stone of Schuler the "key" to reactivating the Hamilcar? Was Chihiro the author behind the book of Schuler, and the power of the Church after the War of the Fallen? Was he the last one standing? If that recon skimmer does not belong to Merlin, we are in for one heck of a book... |
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by Keith_w » Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:14 pm | |
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I did. Obviously it didn't happen, but would have been very difficult to explain if it had. OTOH, 1st babies are often late... --
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by McGuiness » Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:27 pm | |
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Wow, the out-of-the-box thinkers are out in force today. My gut feeling is that RFC wouldn't have gone to such efforts to keep all TF technology other than a sharp sword or two and some armor, and of course the antiballistic undies out of the sight of Safeholdians, (sorry about the pun!) who wouldn't recognize them as special, only to blow the whole secret sky high by having someone else show up with a recon skimmer. I must admit that a skimmer is one of the most likely things to have been preserved though, since the angels used them to travel in style and "prove" their divinity. The TLs (and pretty much everyone else) would consider the skimmer to be a kyousei hi, a glowing globe that carries an angel. It would be a nasty surprise to find out that some division of the Church has one in reserve. Church doctrine teaches that the appearance of a demon will always be countered by the appearance of an angel to fight it. Since Merlin was declared to be a demon years ago, if the Church had access to a skimmer, it would have made a major demonstration that an angel had appeared to fight "Cayleb's demon familiar" several books ago. (So if that's a skimmer, it doesn't belong to the CoGA and certainly not to the Inquisition!) The CoGA could have destroyed the entire Charisian fleet in OAR and every book since with a single skimmer, so if the scene depicted is accurate, the skimmer is not owned or being flown by an agent of the CoGA. Merlin debated using his recon skimmer to pose as an angel but rejected the idea based on the fact that he utterly despised the CoGA and wasn't going to act in any way that would indicate that Mother Church wasn't a complete fraud. Besides, he decided never to lie about anything so those with whom he interacted would trust him, and posing as an angel would have been destroyed that trust - and caused everyone on the planet to reaffirm their belief in Mother Church. Let's not forget that Merlin has two skimmers, and there's a possibility that one of them could be stolen... "Oh bother", said Pooh as he glanced through the airlock window at the helmet he'd forgotten to wear. |
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by NervousEnergy » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:17 pm | |
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Can't tell about Nimue since she's turned away from us in the artwork, but Merlin looks pretty blase about the whole thing.
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by Undercover Fat Kid » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:40 pm | |
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I'm calling it, Sandra steals the skimmer and single handedly defeats the Charisian Empire, while she's on the com with the Lord Captain Commander of the Gbaba requesting immediate fleet support. Seems legit......
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by Kakai » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:57 pm | |
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