Brief Update from David

cthia wrote:War porn, IMO, should be a label reserved exclusively for a string of mindless, senseless, endless battles with a highly inferior opponent that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell to survive the heat of the fire storms -- without benefit of a purpose, reason and motive.

You mean like all the exciting and hard to predict the winner battles in the last two books? That war porn? Umm, yes, exactly. The ones where it turns out that the RMN has 2.5 million missile pods available in the Home system, so that whole "we are short on missiles thing was all bullshit. The ones where two LACS tow the entire combat load of a SD(P) at 700 gravities without anyone noticing. Yeah, those pieces of war porn.

kzt wrote:

cthia wrote:War porn, IMO, should be a label reserved exclusively for a string of mindless, senseless, endless battles with a highly inferior opponent that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell to survive the heat of the fire storms -- without benefit of a purpose, reason and motive.

You mean like all the exciting and hard to predict the winner battles in the last two books? That war porn? Umm, yes, exactly. The ones where it turns out that the RMN has 2.5 million missile pods available in the Home system, so that whole "we are short on missiles thing was all bullshit. The ones where two LACS tow the entire combat load of a SD(P) at 700 gravities without anyone noticing. Yeah, those pieces of war porn.

Right on que. Shoulda' known this discussion would "fire your ire," kzt.

I was specifically thinking about those battles when I wrote that too - well, they crossed my mind anyways.

Of course, you have to give Manticore credit for warning the League that they were headed for a major disaster and simply courting war porn.

The RMN actually tried to avoid the "casting couch."