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Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice

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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.

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

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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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