Thanks, I appreciate that. And as in my previous reply, I am prepared to
speak on, "what would I do in a campaign now."
And I guess I'd start off with, the best route for Solee is to co-opt it
in some fashion. Since what you've got is an aggregation of worlds working
under some notion of "common cause" under the Cristen Overtak, why not get
them working for some other common cause? Certainly these worlds have
different self-interests subsumed/controlled/manipulated by the Overtak
which could find outlet in some other way, i.e., in a way more congruent
with the RC. Much easier to repaint the ships "Our Side" than have to blow
them up and build new ones first.
An obvious thought is, "that's the sort of thing Hivers do." So, are the
Hivers already doing something here? How do you get a Hiver to help you
manipulate something? If you as the RC manipulate Solee directly, the
Hivers will just say that was part of their master plan anyway.
Dave
> While I did get the sense of their being conscripted and relatively
> incompetent, your precise analogy of the Soviet Navy in space helps pin
> them down far more, so I hope I can get you speak more to Solee.
>
> Don't beat yourself up on the memory. It's a relatively minor piece of
> trivia and it's more than possible Frank put that in without a big
> discussion on it. What GDW would have done is interesting, but I'm more
> interested in not just what you yourself may have done (with or without
> having to compromise with not just Frank and co-workers, etc and the
> dynamics of the fan base and larger industry), but most especially what
> you
> would do in a campaign now. IOW, your ideal and general "moral of the
> story" as it were coupled with all the benefits of experience and
> hindsight
> of the last couple decades.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM, <> wrote:
>