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Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18

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In article <f65dvbt749g30o0f7ur2ti6i4gfg6b0teu@4ax.com>,
 banjo@dontspam.silent.com wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:43:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
> >     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
> >
> >"Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
> >
> >"Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position then 
> >you are not willing to win."
> >
> >Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
> >
> >Lynn
> 
> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.

I will point out a conference of AIs that took place 3.6 seconds before 
the detonation concluded that saving him involved risking the rest of 
the personnel on the ship (and the ship if it didn't self detonate). 
Captain Tagon was a casualty of the Tagnon Exclusion Principle (there 
can only be one Tagnon in a plot line at a time).

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"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:43 -0500
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 10:45 -0700
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 10:59 -0700
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 banjo@dontspam.silent.com - 2016-10-06 19:17 +0100
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2016-10-06 11:52 -0700
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 15:43 -0500
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-06 17:29 -0500
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 20:17 -0500
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 18:54 -0700
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-10-06 19:04 -0700
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 16:33 -0500
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-06 19:40 +0000
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-10-07 04:40 +0000
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        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 09:18 -0700
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