Hope & Aspirations for the Finale

Dauntless wrote:it is what he had planned originally.

hopefully that has changed. I love her too much to see her die. RFC has killed off so many great characters, I still haven't forgiven him for killing everyone on troubdour's flag bridge, McKeown had been with her so long that i had thought he would dodge the cures.

Honor has had so little peace over the last 2 decades since the peeps tried to take Basilisk, that a quiet retirement, to enjoy what she has spent all those year protecting would be nice.

AJKohler wrote:I'll second this. I, too, have lost so many characters I came to care about. It broke my heart when Richard Bolitho died; I do not want to repeat it with one of the best women in my reading experience. Let her enjoy her life - and let her have one.

Lord Skimper wrote:We could have a cliff hanger, Alignment is caught in some extent, but a main faction fades away for 130 years turning up when Honors kids are adventuring. In the next series...

robert132 wrote:

AJKohler wrote:I'll second this. I, too, have lost so many characters I came to care about. It broke my heart when Richard Bolitho died; I do not want to repeat it with one of the best women in my reading experience. Let her enjoy her life - and let her have one.

I too hope she survives this war, but that isn't up to us. It's up to RFC and he already has it written at least in draft form.

I had wondered if any others on this forum had read Alexander Kent's Bolitho series. Glad to see I'm not alone. Frankly it shocked me to see THE principle character killed. Douglas Reeman (Kent) attempted to continue the series with young Adam as the principle but I lost interest in it very quickly and the series "died" soon thereafter.

Killing off the principle protagonist(s) doesn't strike me as a good thing to do in literature. I certainly won't do it in my writings even though Kent is one of my many Muses (along with RFC.)

Maybe one day I'll even attempt to publish.

robert132 wrote:

AJKohler wrote:I'll second this. I, too, have lost so many characters I came to care about. It broke my heart when Richard Bolitho died; I do not want to repeat it with one of the best women in my reading experience. Let her enjoy her life - and let her have one.

I too hope she survives this war, but that isn't up to us. It's up to RFC and he already has it written at least in draft form.

I had wondered if any others on this forum had read Alexander Kent's Bolitho series. Glad to see I'm not alone. Frankly it shocked me to see THE principle character killed. Douglas Reeman (Kent) attempted to continue the series with young Adam as the principle but I lost interest in it very quickly and the series "died" soon thereafter.

Killing off the principle protagonist(s) doesn't strike me as a good thing to do in literature. I certainly won't do it in my writings even though Kent is one of my many Muses (along with RFC.)

Maybe one day I'll even attempt to publish.

AJKohler wrote:Hah! I had the same reaction to Adam Bolitho - a nice enough fellow, but not one who kept my interest - and thought it was just me. But at least in my past, Bolitho, Ramage, Drinkwater and a couple of others. I've read a lot in my time.

I have killed off principal characters in my writing, but they tend to die a peaceful death in the natural course of events. The deaths of the characters in my first three books aren't published and probably won't be; I wrote them because I saw those deaths happening that way and had to put them down on the computer screen. The deaths of the characters in Repeat: A Love Story For The Ages - well, those were an integral part of the story. You'd have to read it to see what I mean (shameless plug).

But killing off Honor at this point - no. As I said, she deserves a life. A nice life. The story could well pick up again with her children, but she should have a chance to see them grow up. They're going to have enough troubles, especially in the RMN, being saddled with the name Alexander-Harrington. They shouldn't have to grow up shy a parent as well.

The needs of the one can outweigh the needs of the few or the many. —Star Trek III

WeirdlyWired wrote:

Sharp Claw wrote:
If there is a battle between the Detweilers or any spider drive ships and GA ships, the outcome will depend on the GA's ability to detect the spider drive. Forraker, Hempill and Simoes have more than enough brainpower to develop a spider drive detector.

I hope there are representatives from Grayson too. Which I feel fairly confident there were even on Weyland. The Graysons have demonstrated extreme talent in thinking outside the box. Including being given a dead end path to the development of inertial compensators yet managing to make them not only work but be adapted by SKM.

Perhaps a sensor that is better at detecting small variations in the NS/HS interface or the GA could just use a brute force approach and saturate the location of any sensor ghost with enough drones to make a visual observation.

Which is the only way MAN ships can detect it even knowing where to look for them. And also, apparently the hoped for and assumed (by GA) operating principle for detection by the Mycroft system.

cthia wrote:

AJKohler wrote:I'll second this. I, too, have lost so many characters I came to care about. It broke my heart when Richard Bolitho died; I do not want to repeat it with one of the best women in my reading experience. Let her enjoy her life - and let her have one.

I too hope she survives this war, but that isn't up to us. It's up to RFC and he already has it written at least in draft form.

I had wondered if any others on this forum had read Alexander Kent's Bolitho series. Glad to see I'm not alone. Frankly it shocked me to see THE principle character killed. Douglas Reeman (Kent) attempted to continue the series with young Adam as the principle but I lost interest in it very quickly and the series "died" soon thereafter.

Killing off the principle protagonist(s) doesn't strike me as a good thing to do in literature. I certainly won't do it in my writings even though Kent is one of my many Muses (along with RFC.)

Maybe one day I'll even attempt to publish.

Hah! I had the same reaction to Adam Bolitho - a nice enough fellow, but not one who kept my interest - and thought it was just me. But at least in my past, Bolitho, Ramage, Drinkwater and a couple of others. I've read a lot in my time.

I have killed off principal characters in my writing, but they tend to die a peaceful death in the natural course of events. The deaths of the characters in my first three books aren't published and probably won't be; I wrote them because I saw those deaths happening that way and had to put them down on the computer screen. The deaths of the characters in Repeat: A Love Story For The Ages - well, those were an integral part of the story. You'd have to read it to see what I mean (shameless plug).

But killing off Honor at this point - no. As I said, she deserves a life. A nice life. The story could well pick up again with her children, but she should have a chance to see them grow up. They're going to have enough troubles, especially in the RMN, being saddled with the name Alexander-Harrington. They shouldn't have to grow up shy a parent as well.

The needs of the one can outweigh the needs of the few or the many. —Star Trek III