This Saturday I visited my father's grave, the first opportunity I'd had to do that since the funeral two years ago. Oh, the feels.
]]>Except it was degraded because of budget loss, but did I recall a line in there somewhere about retired engineers giving their time voluntarily to bring it back online? I can't remember back to the book this facility was first mentioned in, but wasn't it a Bombcorde? Or was it a Vulcan? Because we've seen one of those be brought back to flight status by volunteers.
Anyway - even if BP is now 'The Crown', then it's been noticeably dropped in that there's still the Duchy of Cornwall which can order a nuke, AND there's a Chekov's Nuclear Armed Dimension Hopping Bomber around somewhere being worked on...
So... the Final Battle could well be Sleeper+USA vs BP+SA+UKgovt vs EoS+CANDID+SAS/SRS+S666+PHANGs+Pseph+BLUEHADES+HoAoD and... er... vs Cthulhu...
]]>But anyway, in the Laundryverse 666 Sqdn are still operating their Concorde PR3s and B4 (original source being Charlie himself; I assigned the type numbers to fit in with the original T1 (Civil spec transport) and B2 (real life paper project; painting appeared on one of the 1960s RAF year books carrying 3 Blue Steels)).
]]>2:15AM Got up to finish my Brief.
Like you said, starts out funny (very) and then turns dark (very).
Fabulous.
]]>Wasn't the sleeper supposed to be a servant, not rival, of the black pharoah? Or did it escape it's bonds?
Considering the aquatic themes, undead allusion to Jesus, implied deep one cultists, dreams, songs, and especially the sleeping in the pyramid (via colder war), isn't the sleeper Cthulhu?
Great old ones like cthulhu are generally portrayed as several orders of magnitude less dangerous than outer Gods like shub niggurath, hastur, and nyarlathotep -- which makes sense if a rebellious Cthulhu is the sleeper, but not if it's the "greater threat" in the US. Is stross redefining the pantheon here?
Seriously, where the hell are the deep ones and cthonians during this and the downfall of alfheim? It's indicated in codex that deep ones are familiar with the sleeper (lending support to sleeper being Cthulhu), but they seem to have no interest in the sleeper remanifesting on midgard?
Also, the indication that GP -hadnt- taken over the US flew over my head. Can anyone pointe toward where it's indicated?
]]>If high class entities can eat the information from space time itself, and ymir was (judging by effort put into summoning) lower class than the sleeper, hastur, or black pharoah, how come the home dimensions for those horrors aren't just as shriveled?
And that again brings up the deep ones and cthonians -- why would they be letting idiot monkeys go around summoning the end of reality, as with niflheim? What's going on -there- that humans are able to get away with this shit?
]]>Here's my contribution: Their baby will become the Eschaton. He will teleport 90% of the population away, lowering the amount of souls/minds on Earth, without the need for a mass slaughter, thereby ending Case Nightmare Green.
This will force you to write another Eschaton book, to my great pleasure. :)
]]>So me having tears in my eyes (again) when they mentioned "Pale Blue Dot" and Carl Sagan in the end might mean a lot of things, maybe it's just me coming off the SSRI after 12 years (at some point my psychiatrist thought I was getting hypomanic, I'm still not sure if he was right), maybe it's memories of young Trottelreiner programming some then state of the art VHS VCR to record COSMOS, maybe it's watching said tapes at science club after school.
Still, I think passing the mike to Carl is not that bad an idea...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvxKdvuwIw
On another note, some guy at work mentioned a joke after election results came in; if there is a plane crash involving 100 Germans, you know 12 deserved it. With the AfD denying climate change, I can only agree.
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