>>Harcourt Mudd (related or parents were just fans?) "Mac" Mackenzie is,
>>officially, now my favorite original character in all the Eyrie canon.
>>Just thought I'd mention that.
>
>I've been waiting for someone to say something like that since Hunted
>Rose was first plotted out (which was, if memory serves, while
>Questions of Faith was being written). Thank you, thank you, thank
>you. }:-{D
>
>Harcourt McKenzie was named by his (now deceased) grandfather after a
>dear friend of the family, the infamous con man Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
>Mac is ashamed of his middle name for two reasons: to most of the
>Federation, Mudd is a notorious con man; and to most of the
>Freespacers, Mudd is a notorious -incompetent- con man. Thankfully
>there is no blood relation, and Mac's father left the smuggling
>business when dear old Granddad was killed.
>
Well that saves me the question. I guess his name's Mud around Worcester now.

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Sorry. Not very sorry, but sorry in a general sort of way.