contact noted from reaction of RQS to Sandman in Vampire Fleets
is 1208
I think the Hivers would first offer some logistical help. There
would be a separate manipulation to have the squadron protecting
such logistics stumble into the Solee. It that would be the claim
following a misjump... Or initiative of a Solee commander who
caught wind of the Stepping Stone worlds and put 1 and 1 into
3...
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from my T989
wrote:
> 1. You have the Regency and the RC bumping into each other
sometime before
> 1214 or so. At least that was the date in Vampire Fleets in so
far as I
> recollect...
I couldn't remember if we had published a notional date for that
or not.
But we must have, as you pointed out, because I do recollect
discussion
with people about how that felt "too soon," and I replied that
that was
just the leading edge of exploratory missions, and not the main
bodies.
> 2. After the Promise Vampire main gets smashed by the RC (in a
planetary
> invasion that probably made Guadalcanal look well-supplied),
does the RC
> get more or less attention from Vampire fleets, or does Solee
become the
> bigger concerns?
IIRC, the idea is that the Sandman storyline would allow the RC
to start
taking over vampire ships (Puppeteer virus which can take over
other
vampire ships is allied with RC) so that attention that they do
get can
allow them to increase their numbers. That doesn't mean that all
vampire
ships now = RC, you'd still have to fight some, sometimes lose,
but if RC
has their own vampires now and can turn other vampires to their
side,
vampire attacks are more manageable than they were.
> 3. I know the Hivers are trying to get the RC to stand on their
own, but
> Solee being the threat that it is, you think they might
consider releasing
> some elements of their Navy to help the RC out. Sure, the Solee
navy has
> standards that would make the worst Imperial officers blanch in
> embarrassed
> fury, but one cannot ignore they have some rather large ships
out there,
> and they're as much a threat to the Hivers eventually as to the
RC
> currently.
I was thinking the same thing about direct Hiver Navy
intervention, so
that would be a possiblity if the Hivers felt their manipulation
to get
the RC to stand on its own as a buffer against dangerous humans
were in
danger of failing. So that is a legitimate course of action, but
one that
Hivers and RC as well would want to consider only as a latter
resort.
Dave