Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice
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Date	2018-10-13 04:38 +0000
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In article <vmq2sdpaea4gqu12ep03i6vr02vll1biuc@4ax.com>,
J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 01:41:02 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <7tc2sdha4mb9i5n75epat87fevbcr3u676@4ax.com>,
>>J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:55:17 -0700 (PDT), Robert Carnegie
>>><rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Friday, 12 October 2018 03:27:24 UTC+1, J. Clarke  wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:46:12 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> >On 10/11/2018 7:29 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>>>>> >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:10:27 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>>>>> >> Heydt) wrote:
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >>> In article <tlatrdprsgk298av6gi55f9j4330vbji7d@4ax.com>,
>>>>> >>> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>>> Finished up "Uncompromising Honor" last night.  Weber finally had some
>>>>> >>>> action on the various wars that are in progress.  Once again thousands
>>>>> >>>> and thousands of multiple drive missiles make clear to the Queen's
>>>>> >>>> enemies that they screwed up real bad.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> So over dinner tonight I started "Discount Armageddon, An InCryptid
>>>>> >>>> Novel", which opens with ? really don? think you should put your
>>>>> >>>> hand inside the manticore, dear. You don? know where it? been.?
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> I sprayed soda all over everything and then nearly choked to death
>>>>> >>>> laughing.  Left the waitress a big tip for having to clean up the
>>>>> >>>> mess.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Good advice for The People's Republic of Haven, The Mesan Alignment,
>>>>> >>>> The Solarian League, and I forget who all else has gotten hammered in
>>>>> >>>> the 25 years that Honor Harrington has been rampaging through the
>>>>> >>>> enemies of Manticore.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> OK, the Aeslin Mice don't figure much in the above remarks, but I
>>>>> >>>> can't help thinking that "Keep that up and I'll get a pulser-armed
>>>>> >>>> treecat" (Stinker learns to shoot in this one) is a more dire threat
>>>>> >>>> to the Aeslin Mice than "Keep that up and I'll get a cat".
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> The dire threat to the Aeslin Mice is the Covenant of St. George.
>>>>> >>> But you knew that.
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> Actually I didn't.  I am about 20 pages into my first encounter with
>>>>> >> them and so far they have created sufficient chaos for their roomate
>>>>> >> that she has threatened to obtain a cat, which is not to be used as a
>>>>> >> burnt offering.  Thus the notion of Nimitz with pulser.  Much less
>>>>> >> likely to be successfully used as a burnt offering than an ordinary
>>>>> >> cat.
>>>>> >...
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Does your book have the pictures of the Aeslin mice ?  They wear armor 
>>>>> >and have spears.
>>>>> >    http://seananmcguire.com/fgaeslinmice.php
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, that was part of the description.  I don't think that it would
>>>>> help when dealing with a treecat armed with Manticoran military
>>>>> weapons.
>>>>
>>>><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_armor> - hmm, that's mainly
>>>>for spaceships for some reason.  (And, not in Star Wars?  I suppose
>>>>that's what a lightsaber is for.)
>>>
>>>Putting a word in front of "armor" doesn't make the armor magic.  I
>>>doubt that any armore that can be carried by a mouse would be
>>>effective against a weapon that can kill an armored human.
>>
>>No.  But it could make a cat* think twice about attacking the
>>armed and armoured mouse.
>>
>>_____
>>* With the exception of some of the brain-damaged cats who have
>>lived with James.
>
>And Honor Harrington's cat, which has successfully attacked armed
>humans on several occasions. And that was _before_ he started packing
>heat.

From everything I know about her treecat, which is damn little,
it has more paws and more intelligence.  It would attack an armed
human because it knew it could take one out.  The brain-damaged
cat would attack an armed human because it didn't know any
better.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

Thread

Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 21:58 -0400
  Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-11 04:10 +0000
    Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 20:29 -0400
      Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 19:46 -0500
        Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 22:27 -0400
          Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-12 02:38 +0000
            Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 23:03 -0400
            Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 23:13 -0400
            Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 13:21 -0500
              Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-12 11:37 -0700
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-10-13 10:07 -0500
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-10-16 21:31 -0700
              Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-12 18:45 +0000
          Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-11 22:55 -0700
            Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 19:55 -0400
              Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 01:41 +0000
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 23:48 -0400
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 04:38 +0000
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-13 09:39 -0400
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 14:12 +0000
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) - 2018-10-15 22:26 +0000
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-15 21:05 -0400
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-16 01:45 +0000
                Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-15 23:41 -0400
              Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-13 05:53 -0700

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