Okay, there's three major points here as I see it; the war, Haruhi, and what it says about all of us that we're writing it like this.
There's a very good reason why the Boskonians aren't just ramming ships into things. First off, ramming ships into Earth would be counterproductive; the boskos represent, more or less, an extension of ground-bound criminal enterprises that do business with Earth. Total war, ramming crap into your potential customers... is bad. Second, wholesale ramming into fen outposts would be somewhat counterproductive as well; looking at the "slavery" portion of the gig, it's only really easily praciticable in the relatively lawless areas where we're operating. Kill off enough that noone comes out into the black and, well, golden egg and all that jazz. Besides, by the beginning point, we're not really posing a sufficient threat.
By the end things may change such that they try, but also during the course of this war sufficient advancements have come that we're able to intercept stuff.
Now, Haruhi. Yeah, you're right, having her as the source of all this, as the single-provably-godlike entity is dumb. We had a whole big thread on that when we decided that same fact, and decided that it wasn't "a god-like japanese school girl what did it" because it screws up the setting something fierce.
Finally... *shrug* Fine, I'm a bitter, cynical, joyless husk of a man who fears and distrusts the future and had all dreams burnt out of him.
... well, how much of that's true is up for debate, but I *think* I'm joking.![[Image: wink.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif)
In truth, I have fun writing bad military sci-fi so, partially in order to figure out a solution to the war thing so people can think about what comes next, I *have* been. Yeah, that's it.
Deconstruct motifs? I'm an engineer (with occasional delusions of being a not-especially-talented writer); you're going to have to slow down and use big words when talking about stuff like that because... uh, what does that even mean?
There's a very good reason why the Boskonians aren't just ramming ships into things. First off, ramming ships into Earth would be counterproductive; the boskos represent, more or less, an extension of ground-bound criminal enterprises that do business with Earth. Total war, ramming crap into your potential customers... is bad. Second, wholesale ramming into fen outposts would be somewhat counterproductive as well; looking at the "slavery" portion of the gig, it's only really easily praciticable in the relatively lawless areas where we're operating. Kill off enough that noone comes out into the black and, well, golden egg and all that jazz. Besides, by the beginning point, we're not really posing a sufficient threat.
By the end things may change such that they try, but also during the course of this war sufficient advancements have come that we're able to intercept stuff.
Now, Haruhi. Yeah, you're right, having her as the source of all this, as the single-provably-godlike entity is dumb. We had a whole big thread on that when we decided that same fact, and decided that it wasn't "a god-like japanese school girl what did it" because it screws up the setting something fierce.
Finally... *shrug* Fine, I'm a bitter, cynical, joyless husk of a man who fears and distrusts the future and had all dreams burnt out of him.
... well, how much of that's true is up for debate, but I *think* I'm joking.
In truth, I have fun writing bad military sci-fi so, partially in order to figure out a solution to the war thing so people can think about what comes next, I *have* been. Yeah, that's it.Deconstruct motifs? I'm an engineer (with occasional delusions of being a not-especially-talented writer); you're going to have to slow down and use big words when talking about stuff like that because... uh, what does that even mean?