Re: Posleen/HymnB4Battle Figures?

At 7:34 AM -0600 1/24/03, devans@nebraska.edu wrote:
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>I missed the first part of this discussion; I think my mail server went
>comatose. Ryan's reply to Oerjan was the first I'd seen. If so, forgive
my
>ignorance. I've not read any John Ringo novels.
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>Isn't part of the problem with such 'god'-like beings that you can't be
>certain of their limitations? You don't suppose they could detect the
>different flight characteristics of the various rounds?

They aren't actually gods per say. The structure of the Posleen 
societey is that you have small numbers of relatively intelligent and 
articulate rulers that provide the genetics for the next generation 
of Posleen, most of which are dumb as a post and can only eat, fight 
and shoot (crapping is assumed). Some of the lower ranks are slightly 
more intelligent and some God Kings cultivate this. They aren't any 
more powerful on an individual basis than your horse that's been 
cross-bread with a crocodile as far as combat skills, how ever, the 
god kings get around on the floating saucer things that are out 
fitted with massively powerful weapons.

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