[Deranged Nasat]

Kirks_Flying_Wig wrote:

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From David Mack's hint above, I'm going with the idea that

this is the beginning of the end for the Romulan Empire, as pride is a theme closely associated with the Romulans, not least in their Seven Deadly Sins anthology.

Unless I'm reading too much into it.

That's a nice point, Wig. Perhaps this is a Romulan-centric plot after all, even if it isn't about Hobus.

Mage wrote:

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I'm just really hoping it's NOT

Bacco. It would be to obvious ofcourse, but we've had so many novels with her internal monologue telling us so much about how much of a great person she is, it would be hard to swallow if she's suddenly a fraud...

Not that I'm saying I think it is (for one thing, as you say, far too obvious), but I do think are ways in which the writers could pull off

a surprise "she's not quite who she says she is!" without it destroying the Bacco character.

. It would certainly be very difficult, and I don't think it would be a good idea at all, but then these authors have surprised me before by taking ideas I was sure wouldn't work and, well, making them work, so who knows?

I'm sure it won't be, though.