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• Martin commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  Minor point, in the typos department (after a recent rereading): The Typhoons start with CAPTOR-E (the electronically-scanned version proposed for Tranche 3B and refit to Tranche 2 onwards) but then mention CAPTOR-M (the mechanically-scanned versions in Tranches 1, 2, and 3A). One or t'other, can't be both :) Mention is made of "Military Aid to the Civil Power", and then the incorrect acronym MACV (which is something from a different army and decade altogether)......
• JohnS commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  I envision the Host more akin to a cold-war vintage U.S. Army style Reserve Division - lots of headquarters staff & a skeleton of cadre around which to form a full unit, but without enough actual grunts assigned to fill the ranks. The Morning Star Empire is/was locked in a MAD stalemate with some other Alfar empire until someone on the other side screwed up and pushed the button obliterating everything south of Manchester down to Tierra del Fuego. The Host survived because they were stationed somewhere out on the backside of nowhere, isolated when the sky fell down. The...
• bwed commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  Something that got me wondering: What's up with the Host's lances? It's mentioned that swords are akin to bayonets for them (and I imagine they might be used in duels, self defence, keeping slaves in line, etc), but there's several mentions of the cavalry having lances as well. My guess was that Alfar cavalry have at least some expectation of getting into melee combat now and again: They're mobile manoeuvre forces that work at night, are invisible even to their peers, have at least some resistance to their own weapons*, are vulnerable to physical trauma and are moving at thirty...
• Grievous Angel commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  Still hoping for a happy ending for Mo and Bob here. forlorn...
• Scott Sanford commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  In the infinitude of possibilities, perhaps they did, If there are an infinite number of dimensions, the Afar could colonize a very large number of alternate earths without getting around to ours. Correct. This has already been addressed by SETI theorists, as a percolation problem; the conclusion is that given some enormous number of potentially habitable worlds there will be some places that haven't been colonized yet, even after a long period when traveling between worlds is possible....