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- Valles - 10-16-2009 Check back in a century and see if you can still say that. Probably Manticore as a whole won't make too much trouble, but as I understand it, Miles ended up betraying his armsman's oath in the process of his little razziah, which, um, is likely actionable under Grayson law? And that's leaving entirely aside the fact that Honor will, barring an inconvenient laser head or the like, still be alive and in her prime. Miles borrowed a lot of trouble at fifty percent annual compound interest and hasn't caught on to the fact that Prolong'll keep him around to see the bill come due. =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." - Bob Schroeck - 10-16-2009 W.I.T.C.H. Blade -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - ECSNorway - 10-16-2009 Quote: Valles wrote:Yeah. Depends on the exact wording of the reservations they placed on the oath, but at first glance it's High Treason, punishable by - in Ivan's terms - "dieting for the Emperor". And, well, with some Steadholders, he might be able to lawyer out from under it - he's DAMN good at that. With Honor? Even if she's inclined to let him get away with it, Grayson won't. And that's all assuming that she doesn't find a way to go after him before the century moratorium is up. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. - Bluemage - 10-16-2009 Quote: Valles wrote:He's doomed. That's all there is to say. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours. I've been writing a bit. - katreus - 10-17-2009 Yeah, after thinking about it, his entire line of thinking is a little bit too convenient for him. He seems to 'forget' that Barrayar has done its fair share of waging war, including those little expeditions to Komarr and Escobar. In Komarr's case, a fair amount of the reasoning has to deal with securing the wormhole. Manticore itself has several termini where it's not in control and several termini where it shares security arrangements with as in the case with Gregor ... B, I think. Miles just kicked off the war - at least with Honor and Grayson - early. If Honor's -really- mean, she'll "accidentally" lose several million tons of shipping in Komarr and leak the linkage between Naismith and Vorkosigan to Jackson's Whole and Cetaganda. When she shows up at Barrayar with fleet, Marines, and divorce papers, she'll probably also convey the new Komarran government's declaration of independence. On her way out, she could even mine the wormhole to kingdom come. - Matrix Dragon - 10-17-2009 As a long time Honorverse fan? Yeah, that was lousy to read. I stopped paying serious attention the moment Samantha bonded, virtually right after Harrys death. What followed was rather disappointing, and at any time that someone starts preaching about how everyone else is a bunch of evil murdering warmongers in ANY story, I wander off. I skimmed it, out of curiosity, then amused myself by imagining just what Honor would do to someone who stole her ship (And one with a very important tie to her) , quite a few Manticorian citizens, oh, and how could I forget HER SON? Declaring Peace? Doing that pretty much defines you as an ass. Then there was the 'oh, your mother's silly little cultural taboos make her incompetent' BS, and of course, the whole 'You're all primitives and in a hundred years, we'll all be more awesome then you'. *Shrugs, goes back to the HH audiobooks he's been listening to* - Evil Midnight Lurker - 10-17-2009 Batman: The Bold and the Beautiful The Discworld Engineers (Technically, Pratchett wrote that one himself and called it Strata.) --Sam "Well that guy's nekkid." - drakensis - 10-17-2009 Unless I'm misremembering, Miles specifically did not swear the armsmen's oath. The betrayal isn't legal, it's personal (which makes it worse of course). I'd certainly agree that in general the writer is better at the writing the Vorverse than the Honorverse. Check out his non-crossover work. Is Miles screwing up? Undoubtedly. Just on her own Honor would undoubtedly feel used and that Miles seduced her only as a source of information and as breeding stock that happened to match his kink for tall women. However, he's a proffessional paranoid, obsessively loyal to Barrayar and had the initial impression that Manticore (or any power holding the Manticore wormhole... possibly any wormhole) could roll his entire known universe with relative ease (Barrayar superdreadnoughts are maybe equivalent to Manticore cruisers in size, although the tech balance is significantly different) and then, devious little bastard that he is, automatically started trying to work out how to win anyway. Which he reckons could be done, with massive use of biological weapons. And once he sees the possible damage of such a conflict to both sides, he'd complusively act to prevent it. I think he's assuming Manticore would take advantage because in his world (black ops in the Vorverse) it's axiomic that everyone will if they get a shot. It might not be what he says, but let's be honest: Miles lies to everyone, himself included. D for Drakensis You're only young once, but immaturity is forever. - katreus - 10-17-2009 Quote:“Bel Thorne,” she said. “Are you prepared, in the presence of witnesses, to swear fealty to myself under the eyes of God and His Holy Church?” He did sign a contract "with his personal word on it and hers as well" though and probably whatever oaths he swore when he became the Steadholder Consort. Very vague. I'd imagine that abducting a Steadholder's kid - even if it's partly "yours" - probably constitutes some sort of oath breaking. Not to mention, Miles is going to be vilified as deadbeat, sexist dad galore after abandoning his own two daughters. The rest of the group is firmly in the oathbreaker's and treasonous category though and most likely, persona non-grata on Grayson and Manticore. I find it funny that Miles probably just started the feud if not war he was trying to prevent. Worst character assassination has to be Samantha's though. First, finding a new bond mate mere days - at most, a week - after Harry dies. Second, agreeing to leave Nimitz, her own life mate... - Matrix Dragon - 10-17-2009 Quote: Worst character assassination has to be Samantha's though. First, finding a new bond mate mere days - at most, a week - after Harry dies. Second,Yeah, the moment I saw that, I pretty much concluded that there wasn't much in the way of quality, and the way Honor herself was written backed it up. Hell, it took Samantha YEARS to recover from losing Harry, and even longer before she adopted White Haven. - VladimirTherin - 10-17-2009 The whole barrayar tech > manticore part was cringeworthy. Bujold intentionally left most of the science beyond the biotech as exceptionally vague. Not to mention trying to portray Barrayar as having some kind of morale high ground? It is to laugh. What they have in their universe isn't "peace" its "cold war". Do you think Illyan or Gregor would not glass as much of Cetaganda as needed, given a bent penny and a good shot at getting away with it? The war is only cold because the limitations of the Miles-verse ftl mechanics. Taking a fortified wormhole exit is a grim prospect. The Manticores dont have the benefit of being secure in their home system if they just conquer one hapless neighbor (Komarr) - VladimirTherin - 10-17-2009 To expand on that last one: Its pretty much stated in the Barrayar series that they are pretty much turtling in their home system until they tech far enough up to go put paid to the Cetagandans. That's where their whizbang weapons are coming from. - Bob Schroeck - 10-17-2009 Hey guys? I've been letting this Honor-Miles convo run for a while, but unless it's starting to wrap up, maybe you ought to spawn a new thread for it. It's starting to crowd out the main topic. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - robkelk - 10-17-2009 Back to the main topic, http://www.pvponline.com/2009/10/16/milking-it/]Friday's PvP points out that some types of vampires shouldn't be crossed. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - Matrix Dragon - 10-17-2009 Atomic Robo/Nanoha - robkelk - 10-17-2009 Fate (and Nanoha) / Stay Night -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - Bob Schroeck - 10-18-2009 Giant Atomic Robo -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. - ECSNorway - 10-18-2009 Quote: robkelk wrote: ** Move to Crossovers That Must Be. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. - robkelk - 10-18-2009 ECSNorway Wrote:I don't know - the thought of Nanoha "befriending" Saber scares me...robkelk Wrote:Fate (and Nanoha) / Stay Night** Move to Crossovers That Must Be. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - WengFook - 10-19-2009 Quote: robkelk wrote: I had an image of them comparing their beam blasts and this quote sprang to mind. "Thats not a magic beam blast, this is a magic beam blast." ![]() _________________________________ Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World. - Jinx999 - 10-19-2009 A Song of Ice and Fire and Berserk. Because neither is enough of a cr*psack world individually. - Guilherme Loureiro - 10-20-2009 Nanoha/High School Girls(Joshi Kosei): Kouda Akari finds the Book of Darkness - kentmagus - 10-21-2009 The Negaverse, Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask crash a Wayne-funded jewellery exhibition in Japan to see if the highly touted Wayne Jewels contains the Imperium Silver Crystal. Batman's not going to take this lying down. - Wiregeek - 10-21-2009 In a change of tactics that catches everyone off guard, Dresden's foes on the Black Council manage to teleport his entire building 'away'. Harry's home, but fortunately, the normals living upstairs are not. Less fortunate is his destination, as his building ends up transplanted into the bustling heart of Mechanicsburg.... "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies - Evil Midnight Lurker - 10-22-2009 There are too many real-world towns called Mechanicsburg, and I can't quite recall what fiction you might be referencing... --Sam "Surf's up, space ponies -- I'M MAKIN' GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!!!" |