Stephen wrote:
Incidentally, I suspect Avon of having a military background. He knows about ciphers and explosives
I always find his remark about ultrasonic fuses (Rescue) quite telling: "...that's how I would have done it." Also, it is Avon that Blake gets to check the modified gun in S-L-D.
Stephen wrote:
Incidentally, I suspect Avon of having a military background. He knows about ciphers and explosives
And Andrew (Williams) replied:
I always find his remark about ultrasonic fuses (Rescue) quite telling: "...that's how I would have done it." Also, it is Avon that Blake gets to check the modified gun in S-L-D.
If military service really was universal, that could be where Jenna learned piloting. I am really bemused by the idea of Servalan being in the military at all--I would find it much more believable if she were introduced as a Senator or industrialist who later became President.
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--- Dana wrote
I am really bemused by the idea of Servalan being in the military at all--I would find it much more believable if she were introduced as a Senator or industrialist who later became President.
I have this wonderful vision of Section Leader Travis walking along a row of terrified Officer Cadets standing to attention, all dressed in black uniforms until he comes to Servalan in off the shoulder ball gown. Future historians would later muse that the subsequent history of the Federation would have been very different indeed if he'd been fitted with the prosthetic arm at that point.
I suppose that the Federation might have been like 18th Century England, and people might have been able to purchase commissions. I can see Servalan as one of the decadent Aristos in Sharpe.
Stephen.
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"Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Stephen wrote:
Incidentally, I suspect Avon of having a military background. He knows about ciphers and explosives
And Andrew (Williams) replied:
I always find his remark about ultrasonic fuses (Rescue) quite telling: "...that's how I would have done it." Also, it is Avon that Blake gets to check the modified gun in S-L-D.
If military service really was universal, that could be where Jenna learned piloting. I am really bemused by the idea of Servalan being in the military at all--I would find it much more believable if she were introduced as a Senator or industrialist who later became President.
-(Y)
As Kasabi says Servalan comes from a well to do family it might well have been that she was 'packed off' to the military to get her out of the way
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From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
I am really bemused by the idea of Servalan being in the military at all--I would find it much more believable if she were introduced as a Senator or industrialist who later became President.
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