Honorverse favorite one-liners

MaxxQ wrote:I actually feel the same way. I was starting to think he might end up being another Theisman or Tourville - an enemy you could respect. OTOH, it kinda falls into the MAlign's plans in a way - the way they set this up, the SLN lost a fairly competent officer, which means more idiots available for "helping" them along.

cthia wrote:

There were over four hundred superdreadnoughts on his plot, and if they were even half as capable as Harrington had described, they were more than enough to cut through every active unit of Battle Fleet like a laser through ice cubes.

What?
A Solarian Admiral actually admitting how outclassed they are?
Filareta essentially admitted that every single active ship in Battle Fleet's order of battle was useless junk...much less his present command.

Ouch!

Too bad Filareta had to die, I actually like him. He has a brain.

kzt wrote:

MaxxQ wrote:I actually feel the same way. I was starting to think he might end up being another Theisman or Tourville - an enemy you could respect. OTOH, it kinda falls into the MAlign's plans in a way - the way they set this up, the SLN lost a fairly competent officer, which means more idiots available for "helping" them along.

He was not a nice guy. Otherwise the MA wouldn't be able to order him around.

kzt wrote:

cthia wrote:Although I can't remember if LACs were available during Honor of The Queen.

Yes. They shot the hell out of Fearless.

The Honor of the Queen, Chapter 24 wrote:“They could have been worse, but they’re bad enough, Sir.” Her slurred soprano was grim. “Apollo’s impellers are undamaged, but she has almost two hundred dead and wounded, her port broadside is down to a single laser, and her starboard sidewall is beyond repair out of local resources.”
Matthews winced. He had far more casualties, and his entire navy had been reduced to two cruisers—one of which, Glory, was badly damaged—and eleven LACs, but it was the Manticoran vessels which truly mattered. Everyone in this room knew that.
“Fearless got off more lightly,” Harrington went on after a moment. “We’ve lost our long-range gravitics, but our casualties were low, all things considered, and our main armament, radar, and fire control are essentially intact. Troubadour has another twenty dead, and she’s down two tubes and her Number Five Laser. She’s also lost most of her long-range communications, but her sensor suite is undamaged. I’m afraid Apollo is out of it, but between them, Fearless and Troubadour are still combat effective.”

akira.taylor wrote:
True. As I recall, it was something "sick" with children. It was easy to miss, as I recall (just the one mention), and he is about the most competent SLN officer we've seen.

But really deserved to die, given his habits.

“You do realize you weren’t exactly truthful with the poor shmuck, Your Grace,” Rafe Cardones pointed out from his com screen, and she cocked an eyebrow at him. “You didn’t fall all over yourself giving him accurate info on our capabilities,” her flag captain expanded, and she shrugged.
“I disagree with your assessment, Rafe. I didn’t tell him we could do a single thing we can’t do, I just…understated the numbers a bit..."

cthia wrote:ART, last few pages, Chapter 22.

“You do realize you weren’t exactly truthful with the poor shmuck, Your Grace,” Rafe Cardones pointed out from his com screen, and she cocked an eyebrow at him. “You didn’t fall all over yourself giving him accurate info on our capabilities,” her flag captain expanded, and she shrugged.
“I disagree with your assessment, Rafe. I didn’t tell him we could do a single thing we can’t do, I just…understated the numbers a bit..."

Understated??? What The Front door doing open?!
If those numbers Honor trotted out to Filareta was an understatement
Then RFC should send a message to the League to just throw the towel in,
the soap...and the rubber duckey too!

Besides,” he snorted dryly, “they might not have believed you if you’d told them how good your tech—our tech—really is! He might’ve decided you were lying and running a bluff after all.”

She shook her head. “I’ve never seen a fleet in a worse hole than this one, even in a simulation, and”—she glanced at Theisman for a moment—“that’s saying something, after some of the scrapes we’ve been in.” She shook her head again. “Surrender’s the only option you’ve left him.”
“That was the general idea, Mercedes,” Honor said softly, her eyes on the crimson icons of Eleventh Fleet.

“Engage the enemy,” her soprano voice said evenly. “Fire Plan Thermopylae.”