LAST EDITED ON Aug-31-01 AT 02:42 AM (EDT)

>1.0) So, who's idea was Amanda's callsign? Very apt. Tskia would
>approve very much, I do belive. ;-)

Mine. Just a spur of the moment decision.

>1.1) Rina's callsign. Also pretty cool, if bland.

She didn't really get a chance to demonstrate why she's called that, unless you take the line that she earned it with her wit rather than her gunnery skills. :) (She does handle her blaster really well the one time she gets a chance to use it, but that's not really sniper fire.)

>2.0) "Do yourself a favor, Carter - if you're ever in the
>military, do everything you can to avoid being posted to a flagship.
>They get all the stupidest officers and most boring missions. It
>sounds big and glamorous, but all you end up doing is flying parade
>escorts, polishing your blaster and
>playing with yourself."
>
>She's interesting all right. Who served time on a carrier?

My uncle Paul, back in the seventies, was a janitor on USS Forrestal, but he never said anything like that. Just an impression I've formed from years of liking navy stories, I guess. :)

>2.2) *twin* helix cannon's? *two* omega class weapons on one ship?

Nah, helix cannons aren't Omega-class. The deck guns of the Argo were helix cannons. They're heavy starship weapons, roughly equivalent to the heavy phasers on a Galaxy-class battleship ("exploratory cruiser" my ass) or the super-heavy blaster mounts on an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The Destiny's Fist does have an Omega-class weapon, though, a Wave Motion Gun.

>3.0) Lockheed Lightning's? Given Gamilon's general dislike of humans,
>wouldn't they really dislike using human tech? And even if lockheed
>is really nifty like, wouldn't they have their own starfighter tech?

One of the reasons why the Gamilons dislike Earthpeople nowadays is the fact that, after the war (Gamilon had a brief war with Earth back somewhere along there), Gamilon's native military industries pretty much collapsed, and now all of their military hardware is contract-built or bought offworld. They've become galactic citizens, dependent on the galactic economy, and they resent the hell out of it.

My fault; I intended to mention this and forgot to do it.

>4.0) Total offshoot, but damnit, would you post a copy of the tech
>readout in the vault at least? I enjoyed reading it, even if it was
>out of date.

I'd rather not. Even if I put it in the Subterranean Vault, even if I put huge red warnings that it's deprecated and worthless for actual reference purposes, I'll get mail from people anytime I contradict it.

>5.0) New revision of starfury's? (the 71's that is)

No; I just couldn't find the actual number and made one up, hoping that my inability to find one meant that B5 hadn't bothered to give them one. What's the correct one?

>7.0) She grinned again. "One day, my children will guard
>yours."
>Well, I guess that this answers my questions about what happens to
>Devlin, what? If he can keep the psi-corps off his back for a few
>more years anyways.

At the very least, you now know what Rina believes will become of him. :)

>I am finding it interesting that of all the characters (unless you
>count Gryph, who probably did *something* with kei in the week of CR.
>But I don't), only azalynn is having sexual interactions with others.
[snip]
>8.1) Yeah, yeah. I know. "They're only 15, or less." Still, with all
>of the romantic tension that's going on, I'm kinda surprised that no
>one is jumping each other's bones.

Well, let's see...

(Since you didn't ask... )

- It should be obvious that Devlin and Amanda have been, and continue to be, lovers. They probably don't get all that many opportunities, but theirs is an ongoing affair.

- It should be further apparent that Amanda and Kitarina have also been lovers, though that's been somewhat interrupted by the fact that Amanda's in school on Earth. Still, it's safe to assume that they, as you put it, did something when Amanda was home for her last vacation.

- Garon and Corimel are most definitely lovers.

- It never came up, but Desslok and Grenlo are, too.

- Amanda and Garon haven't yet, but Amanda really, really wants to, and Garon has no particular objection, when the time is right.

- Amanda and Azalynn I choose to leave obscured for the time being, though if the reader wishes to speculate, I direct him to Amanda's dialogue during their confrontation with Liza Broadbank in Duelists.

- Azalynn's latest project is just beginning, but Miki did go back for the third day of Spring Wind, and he'd obviously stayed the night in Riley 212 the night after C-term finals. They didn't necessarily do anything that particular night (tired! finals are hard!), but it's still suggestive. (Besides, "only Azalynn is having sexual interactions with others" is an impossible statement. There has to be at least one somebody else involved for "others" to be true. :)

- Speaking of Azalynn's "others", Saionji isn't "encountering" anybody right now, but he did for a little while, back at Christmastime.

- Kaitlyn has too much baggage to even consider such a thing, except in the most abstract sense, right now. After Christmas Rose, she's finally begun healing, but it'll be some time before she achieves a level of confidence where she's ready to try something like that again.

- The same goes for Juri; she's a mess, one even Azalynn can't untangle right now. She has to sort herself out before she can risk involving herself.

- Utena, well, we know about Utena's situation. She's got stuff to sort out on about four different levels.

- Corwin's freakin' thirteen. (That's one of the levels. :)

- Moose isn't seeing anybody just now. Hoffmanites generally don't scope for non-Hoffmanites; to them, regular people are built unsettlingly like children. Moose might be kind of a perv by Hoffmanite standards, I dunno - but whichever, he's not involved.

- There aren't any other t'skrang at WPI, so T'skaia's on his own. Humanoids do not interest him.

- Mia just got off the boat from Minbar, where she lived a sheltered life among the religious caste (and the Anla'shok, but that's a story for another time). She's not ready for anything like that yet. But she's done a lot of reading...

- I don't know or care if Liza Broadbank is getting any. I can only say that if she is, I hope it isn't with Professor Harris.

- Same goes for Xenia.

- Dorothy... isn't. But she's starting to think about it. That's as far as I want to go with that right now...

There, now. Aren't you glad you didn't ask? (I'm sure I've missed somebody out... I always do... )

>9.0) "I'm afraid I'm not very political, Your Majesty. I'm glad I
>was able to help a friend - nothing more."
>
>Undoubtedly one of the reasons that 'Manda likes Devlin. He could
>care less about politics. But he'll move heaven and earth to help a
>friend.

It is rather refreshing to have a friend who doesn't particularly care that you're alien royalty. :)

> Rina grinned and dug him in the ribs with an elbow. "There's
>more than one way to interpret our family motto, Carter."
>
>*grin* now there's an evil little woman. I rather like her.

Yeah, I like Rina a lot. :)

>11.0) Would 'Manda's and Carters' kids have a chance at beeing teeps?

Yes, they would. They wouldn't necessarily be, though.

>11.1) Or am I doing the whole "Pasha's looking *way* too far into the
>future with this story" thing again?

Yes, you are. :)

>You know, something about Carters air of spinelessness never *quite*
>rang true. For someone who tried to pretend that he was a coward, he
>stands up to too many people. Way too many people.

The funny thing is, Devlin genuinely does consider himself a physical coward. He hates the thought of being injured or feeling pain - he's terrified by violence and physical conflict. It's just that he can still function while terrified. If you've ever read C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books, Hornblower has a similar mentality in this regard. He routinely upbraids himself for his cowardice because, while committing acts of such astounding courage that they make battle-hardened sailors' jaws drop, he's scared shitless inside his own mind. :)

>
>13.0) Xeria deserves to be fed to alt.tasteless for her treatment of
>Dalin.

Dalin's sisters agree with you.

>14.1) It took me three readings to figure out that Garon was talking
>about a threesome, *not* him and Carter.

I suppose Garon wouldn't particularly mind that either, but he figures the only way he'd ever get Devlin to go for it is by way of a menage. :)

>15.0)Why use setting 3 on the ppg? 1 would have stopped the assain,
>and left him alive for questioning...

Devlin's PPG has settings?

>of Gamilion, *and* co-comlien to the future head of the fleet.

I'm afraid I don't know the word I've italicized, nor does my dictionary. What is it?

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