boballab wrote:The Karrine on the scout ship contained no Generations in it and the only Karrine that knew all the secrets of the Karrine and the Kimdori were the Generations.
My point still stands. "A kerrine off shoot being behind the attack" and "Jason being the target" are still mutually exclusive. If the kerrine were behind the attack, the choices of tactics used does not tally with him being the target. In fact the tactics seemed similar to the Borg's style of military intelligence than anything else: learn about the enemy by watching them kill a small number of your soldiers.
>Never give an Ally a defense against your best weapon they might one day be your enemy,
That's just short term thinking. The Urumi *should* by all that's decent have battlefield computers already. It's such a painfully obvious counter measure it stretches credulity beyond breaking point that no one would think of it in the thousands of years they've had to deal with the Faey. Just give them better ones, with a back door you can use later. Again though, if the point if to smash the Kerrinne, and Jason really was the tippy top most important number one target on the list, it's sensible to give away the computers anyway just to achieve your primary goal. It's hard to imagine a more perfect application for loss leader tactics than this.
>so the consortium knew about the Faey in fighter tactic,
Maybe not. It could just be natural immunity. Same way Faey can't talk to regular computers because they're just too different.Though if it is that could be *very* disruptive. And in the long term possibly more damaging to the Imperium than outright military invasion.
>the non Generation Karrine would not know about this
All of what I've said applies to regular faey telepathy. Knowledge of the Generations programme is not needed to construct counter measures against regular grade mind benders.
>Fel wouldn't leave us hanging with a cliffhanger until another book would he...
He'll probably give us
an ending. But I think he's already hinted that there will be at least one more short set in the Imperium. So expect a healthy dose of 'to be continued...' with your ending.