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pappilon
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[quote="kzt"
Plant the weapon ahead of time with remote command detonation and antitamper fuzing. With a backup option to simply destroy it in place.[/quote] What Zilwicki did or did not do falls into the morally ambiguous area of operational necessity. No one in the GA will fault or even question what he did during his operation. He went where he went did what he did and returned with considerable intelligence. And on his own authority as the spy-in-chief of Torch. Only Mesa has made him the villain, and at this point it is a moot point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy. Ursula K. LeGuinn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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pappilon
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I think we're talking past each other. Sure, the Solarian League investigates. They show up at Manticore with -what- a dozen SDs waving a white flag to "investigate the EEE violations"? Yeah, Elizabeth is going to laugh her ... treecat off her shoulder at that one. But for the sake of argument, let's assume she agrees. What do they find? Mostly the state of Manticore's defences, the numbers and classes of war ships in orbit, theories(wacky theories) of some Mesan Alignment. Proof? Actual pieces of missiles, or debris of invading ships? Maybe all those drones and whatever they assembled? I don't think so. They have absolute confidence that the SLN will not bother to investigate because they have so compromised its ability to do ... pretty much anything. AND its next on the MAlign's hit list. If anything they have too much respect for Manticore's ONI to give it any more reason to come looking for it. Not that it needs more reason at this point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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kzt
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David has said very clearly it was the assumption that eventually people would prove who did it, and even years later it would be such a black mark against the MA that they were unwilling to do that. http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/271/0 |
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Joat42
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Uhm, that's more or less what I said. The MAlign is not against using EE violations to further their plans if they can get away with it, the link you provided even says so.
--- Jack of all trades and destructive tinkerer. Anyone who have simple solutions for complex problems is a fool. |
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kzt
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Yes, but it helps if the author shares your opinion as to why his characters did something. And now you know he does. |
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ldwechsler
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But I would guess the Mandarins are not stupid enough to plan something like that. Of course, that doesn't mean there might not be finagling. |
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Joat42
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No, but how much do you want to bet that the attack on Beowulf the Mandarins and the SLN are planning is going to have unintended consequences, like cataphracts "going off course" and hitting population centers on the planet? It's not like the MAlign have their tentacles into Technodyne who makes the missiles or that they hate Beowulf... --- Jack of all trades and destructive tinkerer. Anyone who have simple solutions for complex problems is a fool. |
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Bluesqueak
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Surely the entire episode of Green Pines results from someone disobeying orders? |
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Fox2!
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If not disobeying orders, at least ignoring the Technical Advisor's intent. |
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kzt
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I would be shocked, just shocked at that turn of events. |
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