>> "Uh, point of order, Lieutenant Commander Hunter?" said
>>navigator Rick Sterling while checking with Salusia's GPS network to
>>make sure they were heading for the right bridge.
>> "Proceed, Lieutenant Commander Sterling," Hunter replied mock-
>>formally.
>
>BWAHAHAHAH, you know it has to be some sort of heavy shit for Rick and
>Max to get even semi serious like this...

It's a running joke with Max and Rick that they've always been promoted almost in lockstep. During the short period when one was a lieutenant commander and the other still a mere lieutenant, they started very formally addressing each other by their full ranks in this way to sort of mock each other, and just kept on once the other caught up. :)

>But shouldnt winter make it less likely
>to be
>OUTSIDE after dark, not inside?

Indeed it should.

>Eh? Why is Gil in full uniform? from being 'called on the carpet' by
>that ASS of a minister still? Or does the SID normally work in
>uniform?

The latter. Unlike their real-world Canadian counterparts, who only wear the red serge for special occasions these days, Salusian Mounties almost always wear the green - except for detectives, which, officially, SID officers are not.

>This had to have been one of those total AHA moments you and the crew
>talk
>about G, where everything falls into place

Yeah, it totally was, especially when I pulled out the calculator and confirmed that Sara would've been the right age in 2380.

>This reminds me. What happens to Sara after this?

She went back into the system, but with certain important personages taking a personal (but discreet) interest in the case, she was handled much more carefully and found her way into a situation where she could be at least reasonably comfortable; and with a pen pal in Starfleet who could always be counted upon to provide intellectual stimulation and - odd as it seems - spiritual guidance, she was content until the time came when she could get out on her own.

>>I was Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Rambo and Kerry Eurodyne
>>rolled into one.
>
>Kerry Eurodyne? Did I miss something or is this just a one shot riff
>of someone who's famous only in the UF verse?

I think he's a pop star in the Cyberpunk 2020 game setting; how he found his way into a 24th-century UF pop culture reference I'm not sure. The Butcher's dialogue here is salvaged straight from Secrets, and I was playing in a CP2020 game at around the time that I started work on that, so...

>>"This verdict nullifies the remaining charges.
>
>On the grounds that if Gryph wasnt falsly accused of the primaries,
>he'd not
>have had to engage in the others, right?

Pretty much, yeah. It's also a variation on the fruit-of-the-poison-tree principle; if he didn't do the initial crime, chances are he didn't do somet of the subsequent ones people thought he had either, such as:

>Though who charged him with
>rape?
>just something Genom came up with to help vilify him?

Could easily have been something HN1 did. That list of crimes is probably a mixture of criminal stuff G actually did in the course of being a fugitive (impersonating an officer comes to mind) and actual straight-up crimes HN1 committed in the course of being a kill-crazed rogue robot.

>Nope, that was vintage "Reality", straight out of the core stories
>that
>launched a thousand RCW's. Didn't you let us in on just what was the
>joke with the binder somewhere on the forums?

Don't know offhand. Let me know if you find it; I don't recall myself what the deal was with Vaughn's binder (other than I think the injoke started because the real Vaughn had one that he misplaced).

>Do we know what becomes of her eventually and I'm just
>forgetting,
>or is that a story yet to be told?

The latter; I think Manhunt is the first time Valeris ever appears in UF.

>They're beaming from HQ
>to the Enterprise, Right?

Correct!

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