Any what if moments?

Jonathan_S wrote:...Park's reappearance ...

'Twas not Park's reappearance, but the expected reinforcements under Adm Danislav(sp?). Park didn't arrive until after the battle was over, and just in time to follow the Peeps back to Seaford 9 and capture that system.

Unfortunately most of my best "what if?" moments would lead to full short stories or novels of the fanfic variety or have been beaten to death, but for the sake of argument....

Someone notices the ops officer's hand in Filerata's folly and shoots him before he can hit the launch sequence?

SharkHunter wrote:Unfortunately most of my best "what if?" moments would lead to full short stories or novels of the fanfic variety or have been beaten to death, but for the sake of argument....

Someone notices the ops officer's hand in Filerata's folly and shoots him before he can hit the launch sequence?

That's preposterous, given how quickly the nannies kicked in. It'd be more plausible to have Filareta enter the stand-down codes himself, bypassing Daniels. Or even simpler, no nannies or hidden bombs at all.

In which case then the GA captures over 400 undamaged Solly SDs and the number of posts on this forum advocating their future use double. Or triple.

munroburton wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Unfortunately most of my best "what if?" moments would lead to full short stories or novels of the fanfic variety or have been beaten to death, but for the sake of argument....

Someone notices the ops officer's hand in Filerata's folly and shoots him before he can hit the launch sequence?

That's preposterous, given how quickly the nannies kicked in. It'd be more plausible to have Filareta enter the stand-down codes himself, bypassing Daniels. Or even simpler, no nannies or hidden bombs at all.

In which case then the GA captures over 400 undamaged Solly SDs and the number of posts on this forum advocating their future use double. Or triple.

More like a couple of orders of magnitude.

saber964 wrote:That's preposterous, given how quickly the nannies kicked in. It'd be more plausible to have Filareta enter the stand-down codes himself, bypassing Daniels. Or even simpler, no nannies or hidden bombs at all.

In which case then the GA captures over 400 undamaged Solly SDs and the number of posts on this forum advocating their future use double. Or triple.

More like a couple of orders of magnitude.[/quote]

Shirley, there can't be many more uses for a thousand than for a hundred, can there? 582 posts can't really balloon to 4,000. there are only s many Admiral Hemphills willing to sacrifice a laser cluster for a pair of obsolete auto-cannon.

munroburton wrote:That's preposterous, given how quickly the nannies kicked in. It'd be more plausible to have Filareta enter the stand-down codes himself, bypassing Daniels. Or even simpler, no nannies or hidden bombs at all.

In which case then the GA captures over 400 undamaged Solly SDs and the number of posts on this forum advocating their future use double. Or triple.

saber964 wrote:More like a couple of orders of magnitude.

WeridlyWired wrote:Shirley, there can't be many more uses for a thousand than for a hundred, can there? 582 posts can't really balloon to 4,000. there are only s many Admiral Hemphills willing to sacrifice a laser cluster for a pair of obsolete auto-cannon.

Weirdly, neither munroburton, saber or Shirley is advocating that there would be. But that the infused resolve of the many affected posters who would think that there would be, would be. Besides, I think the absolute count in the many related threads already approaches, or exceeds, 4000. And the end of that tune hasn't even been sung, yet. It is the gift that keeps on giving.

In other news, what if Admiral Stephania Grimm hadn't been at her post trying to enjoy her birthday cake and had requested shore leave and someone wet behind the ears and eyes had been standing in for her, resulting in the biggest pileup that I-95 has ever seen, collectively; someone who wouldn't have been so quick off the mark to initiate Case: Zulu or Condition Delta clearing the junction of all traffic and ordering Junction Defense Command to prepare for the Battle of Manticore?

Holy Grim Reaper, cleanup on Aisle 95!

AJKohler wrote:

Fox2! wrote:IIRC, Lt. Castalano had a military grade pulser, not the semi-automatic pistol the parties to the duel used. He basically split North Hollow in half with a single burst from head to tail. Of course, Honor had already put three 9mm holes in the space his heart should have been.

10mm, not 9mm. 10mm is a significantly more powerful cartridge over and above the larger bore size.

.22lr or .45ACP, three in the heart is dead, dead, dead. I can not imagine the amount of control it took for Honor to fight through being shot in the back, turning, and then precisely placing her return fire.

Question: If, instead of the Ellington Protocol Honor and North Hollow had met under the Dreyfus rules, could he have dropped his weapon in token of surrender after firing at Honor, and been immune both from her return fire, and Lt. Castalano's firing to enforce the rules of the duel?

cthia wrote: [snip]
Weirdly, neither munroburton, saber or Shirley is advocating that there would be. But that the infused resolve of the many affected posters who would think that there would be, would be. Besides, I think the absolute count in the many related threads already approaches, or exceeds, 4000. And the end of that tune hasn't even been sung, yet. It is the gift that keeps on giving. [snip]

Surely I forgot to add the snark smiley or the Roll smiley or the sarcasm smiley. And quit calling me Shirley. I may be one dumb, I damn sure aint two dumb Yeah that's an old pun too.

WeirdlyWired wrote:

saber964 wrote:That's preposterous, given how quickly the nannies kicked in. It'd be more plausible to have Filareta enter the stand-down codes himself, bypassing Daniels. Or even simpler, no nannies or hidden bombs at all.

In which case then the GA captures over 400 undamaged Solly SDs and the number of posts on this forum advocating their future use double. Or triple.

More like a couple of orders of magnitude.

Shirley, there can't be many more uses for a thousand than for a hundred, can there? 582 posts can't really balloon to 4,000. there are only s many Admiral Hemphills willing to sacrifice a laser cluster for a pair of obsolete auto-cannon.[/quote]


Does anyone know the number of forums on this particular subject, namely what should we do with all the captured solly SD'S? Or how many times have we all beaten the shit out of this dead horse. I can think of at least eight or nine over the last couple of years.

Fox2! wrote:

AJKohler"[quote="Fox2! wrote:IIRC, Lt. Castalano had a military grade pulser, not the semi-automatic pistol the parties to the duel used. He basically split North Hollow in half with a single burst from head to tail. Of course, Honor had already put three 9mm holes in the space his heart should have been.

10mm, not 9mm. 10mm is a significantly more powerful cartridge over and above the larger bore size.

.22lr or .45ACP, three in the heart is dead, dead, dead. I can not imagine the amount of control it took for Honor to fight through being shot in the back, turning, and then precisely placing her return fire.

Question: If, instead of the Ellington Protocol Honor and North Hollow had met under the Dreyfus rules, could he have dropped his weapon in token of surrender after firing at Honor, and been immune both from her return fire, and Lt. Castalano's firing to enforce the rules of the duel?[/quote]


No, NH life was forfeit for turning and firing early. Even if NH had dropped his weapon he was dead the instant he turned and fired. The token of surrender was if they had both fought the duel fairly. Basically the faced each other and they both exchanged fire NH could then dropped his weapon in surrender if he survived the exchange of fire.