Re: [B7L] This is *my* ship ...

Sally wrote:

A thought arising from one of the other threads ...

Avon wants the Liberator, right? (Well, *he* doesn't say so, but he implies it fairly strongly in The Web and Pressure Point, and there's that little deal with Blake in Star One, and that *extremely* possessive "this is *my* ship" in Powerplay).

But *why* do you think he wants it? What does he think he wants it *for*?

Judging by Horizon, he's thinking of "sailing the universe for as long as we like in reasonable safety, provided we keep out of everybody's way and we do not do anything rash." So, keeping safe. No, of course, he'd never stick to it: video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.