From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:32:09 -0500
Subject: Rescuing livestock RE: Re: [OT ALERT] Coalition Warfare at it's finest <grin>
*** This thread is a dangerous one. To respond in any serious way is bound to tread on somebody's toes. I think it's best if it's just killed right here. *** Foolishly, on my part, I forgot the other possibilities of an OT Nantucket sleigh ride; the 'green' topic is probably even more rancorous than the nationality sensitivity. Agree to kill. *** > The enemy could be: *** However, I think the idea of a scenerio wasn't too far astray. The ancients(refering to the rule systems, not the posters ;->= ) wargaming memories not withstanding, I have some doubts that regular livestock would be worth anyone risking their necks. Sustenance food production would seem to be available by non-traditional methods (alga-hydroponics and the like) at this point, and I'd assume that the livestock was originally brought as gene-stock, decanted and grown at the colony. Not a simple or easily surrendered task result, but 'worth dying for'? Ok, might be. Now, herds of specially-bred-to-local conditions stock, and highly prized and expensive products of local conditions might be worth the attempt. I'm reminded of Traveller's Trockenberenauslise (sp?), wine so rare that an assault on a military cruiser was a reasonable attempt. Obviously, the authors saw the same German commercial documentary film, before the term infomercial was coined, that I did SOOOO many years ago. ; ->= The_Beast -Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad