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...aside from feudalism that is. And that's David Weber style milporn^H^H^H^H MilSF.
While slogging throughThe Apocalypse Troll, wincing at the somewhat less than two-dimensional charaters, and the descriptive prose that could have been lifted from a bad romance novel, I realized that in Singularity Sky Stross is taking a poke at the "whole "invincible starship piloted by a brilliant captain" idea".
While Stross of course couldn't develop such a fetishistic attention to the details of his space military, there was the similar description of: the huge space feudalists capital ship, the proud, dedicated and competent personnel manning it, and the tactical genius of a captain...all of which proves to be pretty much irrelevant. Plus there's the representatives of a more advanced civilization, who futily try to warn the feudalists of this fact because the feudalists just. Won't. LISTEN.
In the Stross-verse, classic militaries in the Weber sense don't just lose, they get eaten.
While slogging throughThe Apocalypse Troll, wincing at the somewhat less than two-dimensional charaters, and the descriptive prose that could have been lifted from a bad romance novel, I realized that in Singularity Sky Stross is taking a poke at the "whole "invincible starship piloted by a brilliant captain" idea".
While Stross of course couldn't develop such a fetishistic attention to the details of his space military, there was the similar description of: the huge space feudalists capital ship, the proud, dedicated and competent personnel manning it, and the tactical genius of a captain...all of which proves to be pretty much irrelevant. Plus there's the representatives of a more advanced civilization, who futily try to warn the feudalists of this fact because the feudalists just. Won't. LISTEN.
In the Stross-verse, classic militaries in the Weber sense don't just lose, they get eaten.