>on the other hand, if the corps decided to do a major sweep of the
>are, complete with testing, then there might be problems... though i
>don't see how pissing off the political head of Zeta Cygni, the
>leadership of the WDF, several Norse Gods and the Greatest Scientific
>Mind In The Universe would be in the corps' best interest, either...

I'm reminded of a comment in 'Rite of Passage' from Zoner about the fact that, in general, the WDF doesn't actually CARE about those silly little 'Diplomatic Incident' things.

I have this image, suddenly, of Concordia defolding, with a bunch of the WDF fold-capable ships coming in with it, and the screen in Earthdome resolving to show Gryphon, in uniform, standing there. And he says, quite calmly:

"My daughter and her friends are late coming home from school. I do hope you didn't decide she needed to stay for detention. She's very well behaved, and if I find she was punished for no reason, I could become just... a little... peeved."

Of course, I think they'd just deport them all, probably in a way designed to be the most irritating. Part of me also wonders if the unpleasant parts of Earthdome who are starting all this trouble would try to make sure that even if they were departed, they don't get home... alive.

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)