>I just re-read that, and spotted this:
>"What help had he received to deal with the problem? a
>ballista team! "They have experience of dealing with
>ducks" was the explanation! "
>
>OMG. That wouldn't be the First Pavis Ballista, would
>it? The one "manned" by baboons? (reads next
>paragraph) - yes, it would! The Lunars are using THEM
>to deal with the supply-smuggling ducks? There's a
>game there, I can just see it.
It just seemed to fit somehow. :)
I don't know if the Jorkandros actually uses them against the duck smugglers. That's just what the Ordenviru have sent them to do. So far all I know is they have managed to hospitalise one of their number.
So if you are thinking of a sequal to Ducks and Baboons one of the baboons has their arm in a sling.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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