lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,
From their MoH conversation, E&E know the MAlign has false fronts who will be bitterly opposed to genetic slavery.
Given nanotech assassins, the GA will insist treecats be present with all strangers, and said treecats have been very discrete in alerting the humans what the stranger is thinking, so the RF leaders will have to risk it when their announce themselves.
The patient long game would be more MAlign like, but my impression of the clone sons is that they're even more impatient than their father, and will make even greater egregious mistakes.
From their bios the RF leaders have been groomed to be opposed to genetic slavery in word and deed, yet can they hide their thoughts from treecats?
I look forward to O'Hanrahan's interview with Mike, to see how alpha lines deal with treecats; though Mike should have had her more permanent treecat guardian delivered by Tourville, along with Medusa's since Samantha has met both.
The db sent to Manticore through the Visigoth termini ought to get there in less than 176 hours [7&1/3 days] so it could return in less than 15.
His Celeryness may have something special for Mike's treecat, a real cowboy who likes Maine coon cats and cigars.
Brigade XO is quite correct the SLN will discover some of their worst nightmares in Silesia, since SoS mentioned Sarnow had 12 times as many warships in the SEM's ~49% of Silesia while the TC had close to 18 times the volume [SoS chapter 11, 4th page -page 149 in the HB].
If Kumalo had only 25 warships [I think it was more like 3 dozen, but that's my minimum], that'd be 300, or more than 20% of the RMN's strength in the critical summer of 1920, an incredible burden to the RMN at such a critical time, although RMN ship construction had easily exceeded this by April 1921 [HoS].
Silesia has some 65-69 star systems, so Sarnow might have been dealing with twice as many systems as Kumalo [in 4.5% of the volume], but averaging ~9 warships per star, before the 48 Kamerling's system control cruisers are added to the LAC's with their special bases mentioned in passing etc.
Of course the IAN may have an even higher density of warships, missile pods and LAC's in its 51% of Silesia.
I'm curious who thought of the merchant raiding plan; Kingsford, or did some MAlign agent [not Gwoen] suggest it to get the best FF ships out of the shell and the verge when the SL needs them there more than ever, and the mission is almost certain suicide.
I have lots of questions for UC to answer.
Ln7axw wrote:I doubt that the RF's intentions and it's ties with the Alignment will be evident when they publicaly declare their star nation. That will take time to come out; in all likelihood a quite a bit of it...
Don
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n7axw wrote:Good to see your post, Lyonheart. It does inspire one comment. I suspect that they would pass the treecat truth test with flying colors on the subject of genetic slavery. Textev suggests that a quite a few individuals in the outer layers of the onion find both Manpower and genetic slavery repulsive. The subject of human improvement through genetic manipulation would be an entirely different matter, however, and could evoke a different response...
Don
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Joubert's initiative?
These posts makes me consider the notion of a tailored battery of questions in the company of Clean Killer, designed to flesh out a Malign operative in or out of the Onion, posited anywhere in the galaxy. Maybe they didn't have time to get the kill switch either. And if they did, that's just one more Malignant operative cleaned.
1) What do you think about the Yawata Strike?
2) Do you have any idea who perpetrated it?
3) Have you ever been on a planet most of the galaxy is unaware of?
4) You ever been on what is called a streak boat?
ONI investigation on wheels.
