Created Saturday 28 March 2020
Why, dragons, of course.
So, yeah, I will be true to my tradition (they were one of the first ideas I had about this Really Big Space Monster thing, so I want to stay true to having them, those knights of surviving high G).
But to be dragons. Serpetine with a coiled neck and lethal breath.
Maybve call them Basilisks., but not the stupid sight thing. That's too
No, the Coursers are hunters with hounds, and that's just what they are. Trying to turn them into dragons doesn't work.
But I now want something to. This is the firth piece of Archer's diagram. And in that way, dragons are Humanity's wild card in the war. Our new mount. From chariot to hourseback to stirrup to biplane to drone.
Imma gunna right now. (Well, soon. It is me we're talking about.)
O.K., so Miller's point with the Second Son is that light infantry work against dragons. His understanding of how cavalry work was really bad. But that storyline with the Crabfeeder was a better story than I could ever write.
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Their platform for war. A mobile platform that can't be directly beaten in combat. It commands the space it's in. It's a pretty small place, barely enough to command the planetary systme of a red dwarf. But it is surprisingly swift for the power it weilds. It's range of actual command can extend very far. Well out into the interstellar space of a system. So they do punch aboce their weight. But they are also pretty massive, and so cost a lot to jump. They're strategically powerful but have much less of a strategic role since it's just too darned hard to move them quickly around a larger warmap of thousands of systems. Of which a surprsingly large number don't have much to offer. Maaaaybe enough to jump through but not back through.
Daemon is a gorgeous character. Among my favorite. A dragon rider viking a rocky shore. A well done Loki. As a
Melnibonéan.
I dunno, so far, it's just a flying Hagge