>>>They don't have a lot of defectors - they lost Geoff
>>>Depew due to a miscalculation in their psych profile, for example.
>>>
>>And just pure dumb luck. If they hadn't tried to send you after Kei
>>(Or was it Yuri) while you were still rattled by your encounter with
>>the waitress...
>
>Um, did you argue with the author about the motivations of his own,
>self-identified character?
>
Nooo, I was pointing out something that Geoff himself said about his UF Self. Maybe he didnt use my phraseology, but as Geoff points out in his reply to you, it WAS, as I noted, the 1 2 punch of having to go after one of the Lovely Angels, whom he had a crush on as a child, on top of the unresolved feeling about the waitress rubout that went all pear shaped on him.

>You miss the point - he felt guilty about killing an innocent
>bystander. In the Big Fire training, your concern about non-Big
>Fire (or lower level Big Fire) people is supposed to be 'nil.

I dunno if I agree with you. At least in UF Geoff's case, he seems to portray their brainwashing as "Be nice to the peons unless they get in our way, as these will be your subjects once you rule the galaxy"... which also makes sense in a sick, pavlovian way. Again, My interpretation of Geoff's words.