Re: [TML] A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it
Rupert Boleyn 20 Jun 2020 08:51 UTC
On 20Jun2020 1932, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> He always would've had to run but it should've been obvious in advance.
>
> No one really wants a crazy-ass mass murderer on the throne.
And yet they were cool with it in the past, according to old CT works.
>
> But it fits neatly into the "everybody goes crazy. etc" narrative.
>
> And then there's the way he escaped.
>
> In one of the Challenges there was mention of the poor SDB commander
> who got exiled to the boonies cuz' he failed to fire on Dullie's ship
> as it prepared to jump. The commander, poor soul, apparently just
> couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger till it was too late.
OR, with really confusing reports coming in, wasn't sure what was up and
didn't want to get court-martialed for firing on an Archduke's ship.
Then Lucan shit-cans him anyway, because Lucan's an ass.
>
> Just way too many time where one side rolls 'snake eyes', repeatedly &
> the other side gets 'boxcars'.
This sort of thing happens in real life.
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