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by EdThomas » Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:14 pm | |
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The WotF is going to be a common subject now, I think.
In my mind the WotF has the followiing characteristics: 1.The war started 60 years after the Awakening, following the destruction of Shan-Wei and Alexandria Enclave. 2. The war was fought by members of the command crew. My guess is that the folks doing the actual terraforming (The Grunts) would have sided with Shan-wei with the folks involved with waking up the adamsandeves (The REMFs) would have sided with Bedard/Langhorne. Question 1. Weaponry is said in the recorded histories (written by the winners) to have been medieval/low tech with the boys and girls killing each other with swords and such. Why would members of the Terran Federation Space Navy choose to fight with swords. Think about it. You drive a machine that carves out canals and you go into battle with a spear and a sword! Question 2. What roles, if any, did adamsandeves play? They were told by Langhorne's priests about the war with Shan-Wei. Its mentioned in their Testimonies and other journals. OAR doesn't tell us much about the war. Your thoughts... |
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by Joat42 » Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:38 pm | |
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My answers:
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by DrakBibliophile » Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:50 pm | |
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I got the impression that there were two elements to the War.
One was fighting between "mortal" supporters of the "Angel" factions. The other was fighting between the "Angels" themselves. Obviously the "mortals" would be using low-tech weapons against other "mortals" while the "Angels" would be using high-tech weapons against other "Angels". From what David Weber has said, this was a somewhat limited war. That is the Angels limited the type of high-tech weapons used because none of the Angels wanted great damage done to Safehold and the "non-combatants". Likely the greatest use of high-tech weapons involved fighting to control the OBS. Obviously, if one side controlled it, then that side would have the advantage. Fighting to control the early version of the OBS likely occurred inside the last starship and within orbital space around Safehold.
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by Boronian » Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:20 pm | |
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Keeping a society low-tech and giving high-tech weapons to mortals contradict each other IMO. That could produce severe problems for the big plan which both sides want to follow only in a very different way.
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by Henry Brown » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:31 pm | |
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One thing I would like to point out. The following comes from HFQ Snippet 5
***SNIP*** "When the Sisters proved . . . intransigent, the abbey — and everyone in it — was destroyed in the middle of the night in a ‘blast of holy fury,’ the last Rakurai of the War Against the Fallen. A blast which, strangely, was never recorded in any of Mother Church’s official records.” ***SNIP*** To me, the term "last Rakuri of the War Against the Fallen" implies that the Rakuri was used multiple times, not just in the initial destruction of the Enclave of Alexandria. So maybe the underlings such as Seijin Kohdy were restricted to fairly low level tech such as battlesteel swords (which could be explained as "magic swords"). But on the greater level, the "Archangels" (i.e. members of the command crew) fought the war on a higher tech level. |
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by n7axw » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:23 pm | |
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It occurs to me that the seijins weren't entirely low tech. One of the ways Nynian identifies Merlin as a seijin was his ability to go great distances very quickly which suggests something like Merlin's skimmer. Don When any group seeks political power in God's name, both religion and politics are instantly corrupted.
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by CSB » Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:52 am | |
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Right now, it seems like the timeline of the "War Against the Fallen" is inconsistent to the point of incoherence. We've been told numerous things at various points that cannot be completely squared with each other. All we know now is that it was fought by [some group of people] against [one or more other groups of people], lasted [some period of time] starting with the Alexandria strike (an uncontroverted fact!) and ending with [a different event]. At least one [maybe] member of the command staff survived the War, and therefore might be said to have "won"; the rest did not.
Doubtless some of the inconsistent information was wrong, due to the limitations of various character perspectives, but without a great deal more information from a reliable source, I'm not sure how useful further speculation is at this point. |
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by lyonheart » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:03 am | |
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Hi CSB,
Welcome to the confusion club. I think things aren't quite as muddled as you point out, yet much remains to be explained. Hopefully some of the snippets soon to be revealed will help or RFC will have mercy upon us. L
Any snippet or post from RFC is good if not great!
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by isaac_newton » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:45 am | |
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not so much incoherent as opaque... however that early morning mist is clearing! |
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by USMA74 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:30 am | |
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In this broad collective group, a lack of specific information from MWW/RFC is just more grist for the speculation mill of hopeless Safehold/Honorverse junkies like myself. |
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