(SPOILERS) Uncomprisingly good

runsforcelery wrote:As for sending a dispatch boat after Honor instead of Cromarty, that may be a reasonable criticism. The internal logic for using Cromarty was that a dispatch boat could not have shaved any more time off the transit without running exactly the same risks. Arguably, the dispatch boat would have been much more expendable than Cromarty, but it couldn't have gotten there any sooner. When Cromarty began her run from Beowulf to the Sol System, she was not under orders to run any risks in the name of speed. That was a decision her captain made after fully internalizing why Hamish was in such a tearing hurry to get there. And Hamish was underway within — literally — an hour or so of being pulled out of the wreckage. It's not like there was a whole huge amount of time for people to consider the best and most efficient way to deal with the situation. Not saying that there wasn't enough time for them to have made different decisions if they'd taken the time to think about it, but they had just a tad on their plates dealing with millions upon millions of casualties. I think they can be excused for thinking less clearly than readers munching potato chips while they read about it.

Having said all of that, I would've sent Cromarty anyway, exactly the way I did, because that was the scene I wanted. Call it cheesy if you will, but I chose to indulge myself in it for a lot of reasons, including what it showed about the characters involved. And if I was going to wrap up a story arc to which I've given a quarter century, that I was by God going to do it in a way that forced me to shift to a keyboard because my voice kept breaking up when I tried to dictate it.

I say again, sue me!

Andy33 wrote:
But there is a rational explanation for sending Cromarty rather than a despatch boat. Hamish was injured - not life-threateningly, but injured - in the space station destruction. A battlecruiser will have far better medical facilities on board than a despatch boat will, and a battlecruiser adapted into a Royal Yacht, even more so.

Hamish is the political head of the RMN, the Prime Minister's brother, a close friend of the Queen/Empress, a widely respected hero of the war against the Peeps. They want him back to full health and vitality as quickly as possible, instead of arriving at the Sol system in little better condition than that in which he left Sigma Draconis.
And Cromarty was available at Beowulf, if she'd been in Manticore orbit instead, they'd have used some other ship.

cthia wrote:
After twenty-five years, it was good cheese because it was aged. Might even be stinky. But the really stinky cheese sniff sniff is the best.

n7axw wrote:

cthia wrote:
After twenty-five years, it was good cheese because it was aged. Might even be stinky. But the really stinky cheese sniff sniff is the best.

Only if its limburger...

Don

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runsforcelery wrote:I say again, sue me!