On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Troy Guffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Wilson wrote: > >> The raid on the refinery is a sort of demo to the skinnies, to show >> how deep the MI can get into their infrastructure and how much they >> can wipe out in a very short time, and thus motivate them to >> cooperate with the Terrans. No sizable reduction of war-fighting >> capability was intended, as that would result in a weaker >> co-beligerent against the bugs. > > Now that we're talking about it, HOW could the Skinnies be fighting allied > with the Bugs? The Bugs are xenocidal. They attempt to wipe out all > non-Bug intelligent life. >
>From what I remember of the book, they weren't allied with the bugs, but were still fighting against the Terrans. The raid by the MI was just to get them to realize they couldn't hope to win against the Terrans and to convince them to focus on the bugs instead. -- Chris J. Whitcomb "I try to keep an open mind, but my brain keep falling out!" _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
