Subject: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][R1/2][Fusion] Battletech: The Saotome Gambit Part 14
From: David Johnston
Date: 6/17/2000, 5:11 AM
To: wildeman@psn.net
CC: ffml@fanfic.com

    "I don't think we should pass up the opportunity," Mukaida countered.
"If nothing else, our fighters might be able to take advantage of the
situation while those Combine bastards are still busy shitting in their
pants from our salvos."
    She smiled at his crude but appropriately descriptive euphemism.

Just what, exactly is that a euphemism for?  And I really think she should
frown.  Crudity isn't nice, and I think that calls for a "Begging your pardon,
ma'am."

Frankly, I regard this battle as yet more evidence that Kasumi should be the
heir.  

the regiment to its old strength. She would need to cull replacements, but
these she could recruit from within her own marches of the Combine.

"Cull" does not mean "recruit".  

   Becoming a mercenary posed little stigma to Kodachi, as she had always
been a bit of a renegade and a maverick within the Furinkan Combine. The

You can't pose stigma.  "had little stigma" or "carried little stigma" perhaps.

2. Let me explain my views on the Commonwealth's idea of capital punishment.
This is something I made up for the story, and has no grounds anywhere in
the Ranma 1/2 canon regarding the Chinese Amazons.

It is, however, distinctly reminiscent of the Clan legal system.  So's the 
"breeding program".  Incidentally, I can't think of any reason why Saffron
would need a mech.  Isn't he enough in his own right?



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