>>Ut also occurs to me that we never see thr Swordbreaker blow a hole in
>>the Elbridge Gerry onscreen, and that's definitely something that
>>would have made the news.
>
>While it would make for a dramatic onscreen moment, I could see why
>Truss might cut a deal with Blank Reg and Nanami to leave that part
>out of the news. Nothing like letting the galaxy know your journalism
>ship is really capable of manhandling (Canal-handling?) an Earthforce
>warship.
>"Um...what will it take to leave that out of your broadcast?"
"I'll classify it the same way you do. If you don't want this reaching eighty-seven million sentients over the next forty-eight hours, you may want to pretend that the Valiant hit you. Pretend real hard."
Peter Eng
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