Honorverse ramblings and musings

Chyort wrote:

kzt wrote:Yes they were. That was the reason for the tiny salvo size.

http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/159/0

Ah, intresting... I remember it was a bluff but i never thought it involved the hermes buoy.
Thanks for the link.

kzt wrote:

Weird Harold wrote:They weren't controlling missiles through the Hermes.

Yes they were. That was the reason for the tiny salvo size.

http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/159/0

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Bill Woods wrote:

cthia wrote:Just a silly little nitpick. With all of the powerful ship names — Triumph, Bismarck, Warlord, Fearless, Tiger, Lion, et cetera, how did a CLAC end up with a name like Mermaid? What the h-e-double hockey sticks is a mermaid doing in the heat of battle? She could get fried.

Ensigns:
"What ship are you assigned to?"

"FEARLESS!"

"HAMMERSTRIKE!

"WRAITH!

"TRIUMPHANT!

"OLYMPUS!"

"HERO!"

"PIRANHA!"

"INDEFATIGABLE!"

"m-m-mermaid."

" "

In the middle of a big build-up, people can get a little desperate.

Submarines [in WW2 were] named for fish or "Denizens of the Deep." At the peak of the shipbuilding program, the navy had around 500 submarines afloat, a-building, or a-planning, and that's a lot of fish. I can testify. There are nowhere nearly as many fish as you may think there are. There are even fewer fish names than the average citizen-sailor can (a) pronounce, (b) spell, or (c) even recognize as belonging to a fish. The reasonable names like TROUT, BASS, SALMON, and SHARK were used up long before I appeared.
It takes some stretching to hook other than most common fish names to submarines and have anyone know you are naming them after fish.
We fudged a little and came around twice. There is a USS SHARK; there is also USS TIBURON, which is shark in Spanish. There was the gallant WAHOO and the USS ONO - the same fish. There was the JACK, the AMBERJACK, and the ULUA - same fish....the CHUB and the HARDHEAD (both minnows - but we couldn't name a fighting fish the USS MINNOW!!)

http://www.usschivo.org/cfish.html

cthia wrote:We know ships take on reaction mass. Does textev state how much mass per class of ship?

Raging battles always result in "We hit her! She's bleeding atmosphere!"

But she's never bleeding H2O. What the heck is the water reservoir made of? Has there ever been a case where a ship's reaction thrusters were down because of reaction mass depletion?

Exactly what other ship's functions use H2O? Other than the necessities of eating, cooking, drinking, bathing ...

cthia wrote:But she's never bleeding H2O. What the heck is the water reservoir made of? Has there ever been a case where a ship's reaction thrusters were down because of reaction mass depletion?

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