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I have seen a few episodes of SAAB, but didn't care for it. Too much fake emoting. They didn't act like combat soldiers, they acted like young actors portraying what some civilian in front of a typewriter thought combat soldiers would act like. And I'm not going to get dragged into an...

Mekt-Hakkikt, At least one major difference you're missing between the hani and the Kilrathi. The Kilrathi are what is termed a "predatory species." Now before you start pointing out that the hani are meat-eaters too, that's not what I meant. A "predatory species" is a race that preys on...

There isn't really any resemblance at all between the hani of the Chanur stories and the Kilrathi. The hani are quite a bit smaller, for one thing, and are traders, not warriors. They are as different as a housecat is from a tiger. There are definitely some resemblance between the Kzinti...

Not my point. Point is, Marshall would have been dismissed a good five or more years before Prophecy. "Excessive time in grade," as I have been saying. In fact, it is a wonder he was still on active duty during WC4.

I have used it in the past, mainly in WC1 when a wingman will not shut up about how damaged they are.

I personally think that Fleet Action and False Colors were the best, with Freedom Flight close behind. There isn't as much depth to the Cats in End Run. Heart of the Tiger was a fairly good adaptation of WC3, but Price of Freedom took far too many liberties with the storyline, especially the...

In the WC4 novel, there is a reference to the previous CAG of the Lexington being dismissed just after being passed over for Colonel three times. How many times in fifteen years has Marshall been passed over for Colonel? If PR was the reason, he should have been put into a high-profile, but...

Just a nitpick, but does it strike anyone else as unrealistic that Maniac would still be a major in the cockpit by 2681? He would have either been promoted to a desk job or kicked out for excessive time in grade by then.

As for the Bugs, they would have probably annihilated the Cats anyway, if they came at all. Presuming that the Prophecy of Sivar was correct, the Bugs came because the Cats got their butts whupped.

All accounts of the Mantu actually point to the fact that they were generally non-agressive explorers who were attacked by the Cats, and responded with massive force. (Read: they were smarter than we were, they were ready for a large scale war.) The odds are that the Mantu have no real...

Has anyone considered that it was in the Kilrathi's best interest that we kicked their butts in the war? If they had won, and no other threat came up, they would simply destroy themselves. Their way of life was ultimately self-destructive. We gave them the boot to the head that gave them a...

Where does it say in canon that the Cat commander thought the Iason was trying to attack him?

You're missing the point, Dragon. Quarto was saying that the Cats and Confed were the same, that Confed was just as bad as the Emperor. I was simply pointing out differences in the two, that show unequivocally that Confed was better than the Emperor. I'm not denying that incidents similar to...

Fact: The Cats would have utterly annhiliated the Human race. If not, they would have enslaved us. Fact: The Cats were allowed to live free, rather than being exterminated or enslaved. Severe restrictions were placed on their spaceflight capabilities, but that stands to reason. You don't...

Blair was not perfect, he was human. And the fact that he can have such problems over loss of life, Human as well as Kilrathi, actually makes him somewhat more admirable.

That's what I thought.

The military has to have a single language. Without it, your chain of command breaks down, and you have chaos. The Cats obviously didn't, at least not during the war.

Blair was too much of a survivor to commit suicide. He survived more than 15 years of war, watching friend after friend die, being branded a traitor, and finally almost seeing his home destroyed. He did, however, undoubtably have nightmares about Kilrah until the day he died. (Yes, he's dead...

My personal opinion, but I find the "movie and games both right" opinion to be stretching it a bit. The Rapier was a first-block testbed when we first got to fly it in WC1. That doesn't jive with there being a mass produced version, completely different, that was abruptly phased out only...

The question, though, is not regional dialects, that stands to reason. Whenever the speakers of a particular language are spread out at all, differences crop up in the language, often resulting in completely disparate dialects. My question, to which there really is no canon answer to the best...