Re: Battle for the Lytherian astroid

Grey Knowles wrote:

> Ah, but you'll also recall that the particular orc in question was a
> orc-troll hybrid and had more than his fair share of healing ability (and
> brains; go figure) and was able to scrap with the best of them.

Nope. You're thinking of General Vorr from The Maelstrom's Eye, who was IIRC of
mixed scro-troll-ogre blood. I don't think there was any regular orc in there.
The guy I was talking about was Ubiznik, an Armistice orc chieftan, which meant
that he was just like a regular orc, but a lot stronger from the heavy gravity
on Armistice, covered in white fur from the cold, and not as civilised as a
normal orc. General Vorr was in command of scro, ogres, orcs etc. while Ubiznik
was only ever in command of his fellow Armistice orcs, because he wasn't a
scro, while Vorr technically was a scro.

> That was
> why he was being elevated - that and the fact he was kissing the admiral's
> ass. But you are exactly right on the second point. Only a 'lesser' troop
> was allowed to command other 'lesser' troops, never a Scro, and there was
> always a Scro commanding the sergeant orc. Perhaps it would be better to
> term that a orc, troll or ogre could never get above sergeant or maybe
> lieutenant unless considerable battle prowess was shown.

That's basically the way I look at it, unless political situations require that
the scro put a lesser being in charge of his fellow lessers. Paul Westermeyer
hit the nail on the head with his comment about it being similar to the
situation with Romans and their auxilliary troops.

> The way I understood things was that, essentially, if you kill more you get
> more.

True, true.

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