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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by kzt   » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:36 pm

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seahorse1 wrote:The sad thing about Shannon is that she is the Sonya Hemphill of the RoH. She's never going to be intentionally put into a combat situation again.

The difference is that Hemphill commanded a fleet in combat. I don't think that the RHN has any plan to ever let her do that.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by phillies   » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:54 pm

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Naturally, our author is a straightforward and gentle soul who would not imagine putting Foraker in the position that she is way the most senior officer on the scene, the situation is desperate and requires a profound understanding of new ultratech, and therefore Foraker has no alternative but to assume command.

It will never happen.

kzt wrote:
seahorse1 wrote:The sad thing about Shannon is that she is the Sonya Hemphill of the RoH. She's never going to be intentionally put into a combat situation again.

The difference is that Hemphill commanded a fleet in combat. I don't think that the RHN has any plan to ever let her do that.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by kzt   » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:59 pm

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phillies wrote:Naturally, our author is a straightforward and gentle soul who would not imagine putting Foraker in the position that she is way the most senior officer on the scene, the situation is desperate and requires a profound understanding of new ultratech, and therefore Foraker has no alternative but to assume command.

Being the senior officer doesn't matter. If you are not in the command the chain of command of a unit you are just a high ranking passenger.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by richardinor   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:22 am

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At a book signing I attended a fue years ago, RFC talked about a meeting between Foraker and Hemphill. I am looking forward to seeing it in print.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by Hallofaman   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:09 am

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i am looking forward to the meeting as well, and i have a feeling that Ginger Lewis and Wondwerboy will be there too. :twisted:
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by Spacekiwi   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:43 am

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Hallofaman wrote:i am looking forward to the meeting as well, and i have a feeling that Ginger Lewis and Wondwerboy will be there too. :twisted:



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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by solbergb   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:26 am

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Letssee...

Tremain has social skills. If he is interested in Shannon and has time to work with, he'll gauge his approach based on what he knows of her and how receptive she is likely to be. He won't have to be clubbed over the head or matchmaked.

SHANNON might have to be clubbed on the head with the possibility. But only in the nicest way.

Hemphill had proven administrative skills and R&D chops but House of Steel indicates that some of why she got a command was to both give her credibility and to give her some real life experience. Also, really, there were a lot of bright people at Weyland and vast care taken to preserve work. They could (and did eventually) afford to lose the occasional person to combat.

Shannon, by contrast, came up in the fire of the first Havenite war as a tactical specialist. NOBODY is going to question her knowledge of the "shooter's" point of view. So there was no need to "season" her. What most would find surprising is that she grew into the administrative role....but she came into it after it was known how important her technical chops and imagination were. "Old Shannon" would have been a disaster in a command position, however good she was as a staff officer. "New Shannon" post-Bolthole would probably be an adequate commander, as she's learned something about managing people. But the Alliance needs an awesome R&D director a hell of a lot more than another "pretty good" captain.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by CMac   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:45 pm

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Since Ginger Lewis and Wanderman were both posted to Weyland right before it's destruction, unless they were killed during the attack they were sent to Bolthole along with the rest of the Weyland staff. So they at least will definitely be meeting Foraker, if they are still alive.
Scotty however is in command of a squadron of Heavy Cruisers in the Talbott quadrant, so I don't think he and Foraker will be meeting anytime soon.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by rdt   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:19 pm

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MaxxQ wrote:
quark wrote:I wonder if she'll be adopted


There was a snerk a couple years or so ago from RFC that "a certain tac witch" would be adopted/bonded - or something to that effect. IMO, it's not really a matter of "if" but "when".


rfc snerks (unlike his infodumps) are meant to mislead, confuse and deflect the normal thought process into misleading and confusing paths.

When will they ever learn.
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Re: Shannon Foraker
Post by rdt   » Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:24 pm

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It has already been decided that Shannon F. and Herlander S. are (is?) a match made in lab heaven. So stop the Tremaine foolishness folks.
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