ThinksMarkedly wrote:Im wondering what the ghost hunters have in store for Ms Bolton. She's been identified as Gewon's control and with 5 MAlign agents already taken out of play, the ghost hunters can't wait too long or she will slip away. Someone suggested knockout gas in an elevator or some such method to incapacitae her without triggering her self-destruct. She can be interred at a black-ops medical facility, preferably in cryo-sleep (that tech should be available) until they come up with a way to overcome the nanites.
I had a previous suggestion that a mission impossible type senario might work here. "Mr. Phelps" could convince her that she barely escaped from old earth and is finally being debriefed by her handlers. Risky, but what the heck inaction just increases the chance that she gets away clean.
In fact, one of the Honorverse anthologies had story about a Solarian agent, Charles from "no such agency" that stopped a tech transfer from the SL to the Peeps. I always thought that Charles was a character we should hear from again.
Copy of my recent post in thread Charles 1922....
Just re-read the Timothy Zhan story "with one stone" I had forgotten that story. Looks Like Charles is a con man trying to sell useless (for war fighting) tech to the Peeps. I havent had a chance to read "an act of war" yet but that was the story I remembed where Charles seemed to be a Solly working for some secret organization. After re-reading it I'll post again.
I still think Charles has good potential as a character.
I also noticed that in "with one stone" Honor caused her ships to flicker her impeller strength, which caused FTL gravity ripples that she used to signal an Andies cruiser. At the end of the story, Admiral Hemphill was looking into this technique, which could have resulted in their FTL tech. Extrapolating, this would be a major contribution to the Manties war fighting tech.
"And since gravity pulses effectively moved faster than light and were detectable from much further away...
Especially if they could combine this idea with the new high-yield fusion bottles and superconductors being designed for the next generation electronic warfare drones, and mabye throw in something from the compact LAC beta nodes already undergoing testing over at BeauWeps..."
Please reread the other story. Like you, the first story makes it sound like he's a con man. But the second makes it sound like he's got friends in high places.
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Charles grimaced. “I suppose there’s no putting the genie back into the bottle now, is there?” he said.
“Very well. My name is—well, my real name is irrelevant. Just call me Charles. I’m part of an organization
of League citizens who strongly disagree with our government’s gutless neutrality in the Haven/Manticore
war. We see Haven as not only a threat to every other star nation around it, but also an oppressive
regime that deals out chaos and death to its own citizens. Since the League as a whole hasn’t seen fit to
get involved on the side of justice, we’ve decided to do so on our own.”
“Interesting,” Rabenstrange said. “
Herr
Weiss had mentioned that you have access to unusually
extensive information sources.”
“They’re actually more extensive than even
Herr
Weiss realizes,” Charles told him.
Ok, Ive re-read "An act of war" and it reads like a mission impossible script. The pertinent excerpt on Charles' identity is attached. Lots of potential for character development here since he disappeared soon afterwards and we only have his "word" for who he really is.[/quote]
