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lyonheart wrote:Hi KNick, NamelessFly,

Just as Kutuzov sterilized a colony planet in 'The Mote In God's Eye', I won't be surprised if HA-H makes the same decision.

I won't be surprised, either; I'll be astounded.

Not --- repeat, NOT --- going to happen, and I am flabbergasted that anyone might think it would. Where the hell have you people been for the last 20 years of Honor Harrington's life? Vengeance personified against the people who actually did this and the hierarchy which ordered it carried out? Damned straight! But did none of you notice that she went after the commander of Blackbird Base rather than simply shooting the first prisoner she saw? She's a killer, people, not a murderer, and especially not on a planetary scale. She would die before she allowed anyone to genocide an entire frigging planet . . . and so would those treecats people have been talking about.

For God's sake, people, let's see a little sanity here, please?

Oh, thank you, David. Sincerely.

(Can't you revoke their future reading priviledges? Maybe a 5-year time out? Put them on a Watch List for the opening of HotQ:M?)

Personally, I expect that one of the unexpected downfalls of the MAlign is going to be that when devoted MASN personnel are blithely ordered to actually violate the EE, some simply won't do it. They are, after all, carefully bred to be extremely smart, extremely rational sentient beings. The outbreak of sanity represented by McBryde and Simoes in such a population cannot be an isolated case.

dreamrider

If we can't have an exciting genocidal attack against Darius, can we at least have another shower scene?

How about Honor showering with Elizebeth?

Or Abby Hearnes showering with Admiral Henke?

Honor showering with Henke is to obvious because they were room mates at Saganami Island.

How about Honor showering with Elizebeth and Adm Henke?

The ultimate would be Honor showering with Elizebeth, Henke and Abby!

runsforcelery wrote:

lyonheart wrote:Hi KNick, NamelessFly,

Just as Kutuzov sterilized a colony planet in 'The Mote In God's Eye', I won't be surprised if HA-H makes the same decision.

I won't be surprised, either; I'll be astounded.

Not --- repeat, NOT --- going to happen, and I am flabbergasted that anyone might think it would. Where the hell have you people been for the last 20 years of Honor Harrington's life? Vengeance personified against the people who actually did this and the hierarchy which ordered it carried out? Damned straight! But did none of you notice that she went after the commander of Blackbird Base rather than simply shooting the first prisoner she saw? She's a killer, people, not a murderer, and especially not on a planetary scale. She would die before she allowed anyone to genocide an entire frigging planet . . . and so would those treecats people have been talking about.

For God's sake, people, let's see a little sanity here, please?

Hello RFC!

We've missed you!

I'm very glad for the correction.

It makes me even more curious how she's going to fix Darius.

Looking forward to it, however many books it takes.

L

runsforcelery wrote:

lyonheart wrote:Hi KNick, NamelessFly,

Just as Kutuzov sterilized a colony planet in 'The Mote In God's Eye', I won't be surprised if HA-H makes the same decision.

I won't be surprised, either; I'll be astounded.

Not --- repeat, NOT --- going to happen, and I am flabbergasted that anyone might think it would. Where the hell have you people been for the last 20 years of Honor Harrington's life? Vengeance personified against the people who actually did this and the hierarchy which ordered it carried out? Damned straight! But did none of you notice that she went after the commander of Blackbird Base rather than simply shooting the first prisoner she saw? She's a killer, people, not a murderer, and especially not on a planetary scale. She would die before she allowed anyone to genocide an entire frigging planet . . . and so would those treecats people have been talking about.

For God's sake, people, let's see a little sanity here, please?

lyonheart wrote:Hello RFC!

We've missed you!

I'm very glad for the correction.

It makes me even more curious how she's going to fix Darius.

Looking forward to it, however many books it takes.

L

Probably in much the same way as Masada, time and education while strictly limiting their space capability.

namelessfly wrote:If we can't have an exciting genocidal attack against Darius, can we at least have another shower scene?

How about Honor showering with Elizabeth?

Or Abby Hearnes showering with Admiral Henke?

Honor showering with Henke is to obvious because they were room mates at Saganami Island.

How about Honor showering with Elizabeth and Adm Henke?

The ultimate would be Honor showering with Elizabeth, Henke and Abby!

For being a man obsessed with being clean, you have such dirty thoughts....

runsforcelery wrote:I won't be surprised, either; I'll be astounded.

Not --- repeat, NOT --- going to happen, and I am flabbergasted that anyone might think it would. Where the hell have you people been for the last 20 years of Honor Harrington's life? Vengeance personified against the people who actually did this and the hierarchy which ordered it carried out? Damned straight! But did none of you notice that she went after the commander of Blackbird Base rather than simply shooting the first prisoner she saw? She's a killer, people, not a murderer, and especially not on a planetary scale. She would die before she allowed anyone to genocide an entire frigging planet . . . and so would those treecats people have been talking about.

For God's sake, people, let's see a little sanity here, please?

OK, one order of sanity. No EE for Honor (and it was a bit silly to think so, IMHO. Even on Hell, which had about as bad a bunch of humans as you can imagine in SS, she stopped the slaughter as soon as she could and provided honest and just court martials for the survivors.

That said, it doesn't mean that there won't be an EE incident--things are going to fall apart big-time, and there will be a lot of people grabbing onto whatever looks like security so they can to somehow stabilize their lives, and Bad People will end up in control of at least some planets (see Earth history from almost any time). And their actions may not be rational (Does anyone doubt what a Warnecke would do if he thought he could get away with it?)

Heck, you don't even need opposing planets--the people of Cimmarron (sic) were ready to cue-ball their planet before OFS/FF intervention, and whos' to say if FF withdraws (and before the GA can do anything about it), that they might not take the notion into their heads again (not a EE violation, per se, but still a shocking loss of life).

Things will get ugly--very ugly--but Honor will do her best to see that they don't get too ugly and that it is those who bear the brunt of the blame who get whacked real hard.

IMHO as always. YMMV.

Duckk wrote:Namelessfly, I told you before to rein it in with the sexual comments.

Read this after I posted my comments.

Apologies for encouraging the fly. Will desist from doing so.

Hi Grastel,

Given Darius has prolong, obviously it will be a very long long time.

Long blockades rarely last.

A blockade lasting 3 centuries seems laughable, but then given the current generation being able to rehearse its hate and grievances for 250-300 years in the rising generations, when will the hate end?

Remember Noah?

While there are some who would claim that sometimes even god can't sort them out in this life, how do you stop the hate/evil from continuing?

If the children have no chance to choose in effect good, that they are doomed to what passes for evil, what do you do?

But anything that saves HA-H is great, I was very worried what happened to her afterword, what she would do [given the female savior-hero captain in the apocalyptic Bolo story RFC wrote], but given the premise of an implacable hostile planet with a huge population couldn't see a way out, whatever I preferred.

I should have trusted RFC more, I guess.

But given how many books and series have rotten endings these days, I was afraid to hope.

L

Grashtel wrote:

lyonheart wrote:Hello RFC!

We've missed you!

I'm very glad for the correction.

It makes me even more curious how she's going to fix Darius.

Looking forward to it, however many books it takes.

L

Probably in much the same way as Masada, time and education while strictly limiting their space capability.