Re: Unhuman War

>  	My general thought is that the first Unhuman War wasn't really
>  a "war", more of a "general cleanup" of the space-lanes.  It was called
>  a war because it looked like one to outsiders.  The rulebooks are
>  inconsistent about how many ships were involved and the general level
>  of warfare.  For instance, sometimes it uses "countless number of
ships",
>  but listed fleet sizes are in the tens.  Also, there are comments to the
>  effect that the elves had an easy time against the disorganized fleets,
>  but started building spirit warriors and bionoids near the end of the
>  war to help with the battles.  (They wouldn't be needing to build stuff
>  if they were winning so much, IMO.)   >>
>
>
> You need to read the SJ novels to get a feel for the war. And it was
indeed a
> war. The current hostility is IMO nothing like what happened centuries
ago
> but is still very bloody.

A lot of thing are not officially called wars by the in historical books.
The conflict in the Persian gulf was not a war in the true definition i.e.
congress never declared it. but many people did die.

Jeremy G.