jeremysaint wrote:thank-you duckk.
i did read those books, but for some reason i dont remember that part. since i read them fairly recently, and even made a post about an inconsistency with a non fatal pulser wound, i am amazed that i missed the part i actually was most interested in.
however, i would still argue that the goal you described would not require the eventual deaths of the entire manticore system, as implied in the most recent book. further, i would be very curious as to why they have to conceal the fact that the members of the alignment are themselves genetically engineered.
too bad the honorverse wikia has so little information on the mesan alignment.
You're probably going to have to help me out here, I can't recall the exact passage where the Alignment wants to depopulate the entire Manticore system. Not that they wouldn't do it in a heartbeat, of course, but they wouldn't be able to conceal that fact forever. At which point even the people the Alignment has befriended might turn on them.
Regardless, even though the Alignment is perfectly willing to kill however many people they need to get to where they want to be, that doesn't mean that they do so without first considering all the angles. You might profit from reading what David has to say on the matter:
http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/271/1