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Wild Honor (to date); Enjoy!
Topic Started: Apr 28 2009, 08:02 PM (11,527 Views)
Nikas Zekeval
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MageOhki
Feb 3 2011, 09:48 PM
BlackKyuubi
Feb 3 2011, 12:01 PM
MageOhki
Jan 29 2011, 07:39 PM
Maybe. But not today.

It's still on the list, but like Balance of Force, (with honestly less effort needed), working though some serious creator ... annoyance.
(Let's jus say Mission of Honor _ticked_ me off.)

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Dare I ask what exatctly was it that pissed you so? The only part that pissed me was honor's family being killed from the falling debris.
That didn't bother me. Well, not _much_, but hey. What bothered me (and still does)

is the ENTIRE CONCEPT behind OB.

It's just bad. Worse, it violates _several_ rules of operational guidelines for covert operations.

This isn't scrambling to keep the plan on track, it's scrambling to keep the plan on the rails, when the train's LONG jumped it, oh, about 100 miles back. It violates several of basic rules I'd assume Mesa should _live_ by, worse, it's _very_ predictable what Eloise did in response. WORSE, as for the Andermanai "realpolitk"... "What if we're NEXT" Andermai secruity is in the end _secured by MANTICORE_. They _cannot_ let the SKM fall.

It's just an collection of well, bad.

(To be blunt, Mesa's _entire_ STRAGETY is bad. Worse, they DON'T NEED it.)

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Two things.

One, it is very human that people fall in love with their plans, and ride them down in flames long after they should have jumped off. The longer in the works the hard it is mentally to bail out.

Two, OB was based on the premise that even if someone suspected Mesa, or was damn well convinced that they 'had to be' it, there would be no solid proof. A living defector that can point to the systems used and say "Yeah, I helped Mesa build that" was not in The Plan.
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PUTTING aside the 'they can't prove it' bits... who cares? War is war. You don't need an solid case to go make war.

What I'm refering to is the _aftereffects_ of it. it was just bad planning... and bad intel. Again. Bad.
(we won't even MENITON using the Spider ships.)
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Akhorahil
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actualy i read the whole story again ( i relay like the Idea btw.) but you totaly forgott the Grayson Armsmen.
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Nikas Zekeval
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Aug 29 2011, 02:49 PM
actualy i read the whole story again ( i relay like the Idea btw.) but you totaly forgott the Grayson Armsmen.
In canon they aren't assigned till Honor's formal investiture as 'Steadholder Harrington', which didn't happen till she got shuffled off to Grayson to let the heat of Pavel Young's courtmartial verdict die down. And IIRC they really didn't get any mention till she was coming back to Manticore for her 'roaring rampage of revenge'.
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He's right. Pretty much that. As well as finally shaking the rust off, and thinking some things. HOPEFULLY I'll be able to get some out soon.
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Could you at least please repost the beginning of the fic? It's missing.
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