Hopefully, I have made this clearer. :)

Well I just don't know why I'm here anymore, then.

-Merc
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I ask myself the same question - why you're here - often, myself.

you left yourself open for that and I am not ashamed.

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"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"Thank you for flying Church of Eris".

(not the reference I was expecting, but it counts ;) )

Oi! Members of staff will please refrain from abusing the punters.

--G.
Particularly before noon Eastern time, I mean, c'mon. :)
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The irony here, of course, is that Geoff took a good-natured swipe at me right before I went dark for a long weekend and then spent almost another full week not realizing that, no, the forum migration wasn't simply taking an extraordinarily long amount of time, my DNS cache was playing silly buggers with me.

(What I'm saying is that I didn't flounce off in a snit. :)

It was actually a harrowing realization when Phil told me, no, they've been back up for days, the problem is on your end. What if Traitor said something funny? What if Mike started a thread about insane minutiae only I care about? I wouldn't know.

-Merc
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--G.
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>I find myself sort of curious about the UF whereabouts of some other
>Star Trek characters, such as whatever happened to Ben Sisko since
>there never was a Deep Space 9 and the UF creative staff already
>absconded with most of the remaining cast. Obviously Bajor is not
>suffering for lack of an Emissary, but it just seems sort of wrong
>that he's never been in the picture.

It's safe to presume that Commander Sisko's character arc up to and including Wolf 359 is roughly the same as in canon, modulo Starfleet's opposition at the Battle of Wolf 359 having been GENOM MILARM rather than the Borg. After that point, my guess is that he either remained a serving Starfleet officer, possibly achieving his own command shortly thereafter - the survivors of that battle tended to be handled well career-wise by Starfleet Command - or retired to open that restaurant he was always talking about.

Had the timing worked out differently, he might well have been in the running for the job that Susan Ivanova eventually got - as part of the Babylon Foundation's arrangement with the Federation, only Starfleet officers were up for the Babylon 5 XO's post - but as Wolf 359 was 18 years before Babylon 5 became operational, I would imagine he was either too senior to be considered or had left the fleet by then.

Or, who knows, he might be the Earth Alliance's ambassador to Bajor by the late Symphony era, which would put him in an interesting ethical position come the spring of 2412. Point is, I hadn't really thought about it much, but there are possibilities. He's not one of those characters I purposefully avoid having in the UF universe (like Luke Skywalker, whom I promised one of my colleagues would never exist there), I just haven't been motivated to go out and actively make a hole for.

>As to other casts, I know that the whereabouts of the Enterprise NX-01
>remain buried in mystery

Yeah, I've been kicking that around some recently. I'm pretty sure I know what happened to them; it's a question of framing how everyone else finds out.

--G.
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We've all met and grown to enjoy having young Boba Fett tooling around the UF galaxy.

But what's Jango been up to since dropping him off at DSM?

Are there other members of the Fett Clan still running around, making life more entertainingly dangerous for the less-polite sectors of the galaxy?

Oh, you know... stuff. Living a quiet life, minding his own business, staying out of trouble. I think he might be working as an accountant.

... you're not buying it, are you.

The truth is probably more actiony but in a sense no less ordinary, in that he's doing his job the best way he knows how - it's just that his job involves more running, shooting, jetpacking, and general badassery than most people's.

>Are there other members of the Fett Clan still running around, making
>life more entertainingly dangerous for the less-polite sectors of the
>galaxy?

Not unless the Kaminoans decided to cut their losses by selling a Mandalorian clone army to some well-heeled third party. There aren't many third parties around that are that well-heeled, though, so I wouldn't bet a lot on that having happened. Apart from Boba, he has no other family. As he said to Khyra in Wish You Were Here, what woman would put up with him? :)

They're not directly related to him, but there are two other known 25th-century survivors of the ancient Mandalorian army Jango was part of (Fenn Shysa and Khyra Jinn), and they're doing much the same sort of work. When they originally arrived in the modern era (hey, living 2000 years is still a form of time travel - more so, subjectively, if you slept through most of it!), they each took a segment of the Known Galaxy as their individual "turf" to maximize their experience of their new reality and enable the most comprehensive comparison of notes when they reconvened. The practical necessity of that is long since gone, but they still generally tend to stick to their old zones. Jango mainly works the Outer Rim Territories, Khyra the Core Sectors, and Fenn the Coreward Frontier.

--G.
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Sheryl Nome is one of Kaitlyn's acquaintances in the young adult music business; they come from different worlds and have different performance styles, but they both grok what makes concerts good - the music. (Sheryl got a passing mention in Operation: WINTERFEST.)

As for the members of the SMS... well, the Jolly Rogers Legios Squadron was lost with all hands during the events of Sonfall, and the unit designation and insignia was retired in their memory. But, Komilia Sterling had the authorization to staff her air wing on the Prometheus any way that she desired, and while her reborn Crusader flight of course got a berth onboard, there was certainly room there for "Skull" squadron...

(also, they have a very small Queadluun-Rhea squad onboard.)

>Because, oh Lawd, those Valkyries.

Sadly, VF-25's and co probably aren't going to appear anytime soon. (I like them, but I can't say for Gryph. Also, it's been demonstrated that the VF-1 is always going to be top dog in UF 'cause they keep stuffing new tech and pushing the envelope even further.)

>(also, the Trinity would solve that whole Alto/Sheryl/Ranka triangle
>like THAT. *snaps fingers* Just saying.)

Um.

No.

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That probably depends in large part on whether I actually manage to watch it.

>Sadly, VF-25's and co probably aren't going to appear anytime soon.
>(I like them, but I can't say for Gryph. Also, it's been
>demonstrated that the VF-1 is always going to be top dog in UF 'cause
>they keep stuffing new tech and pushing the envelope even further.)

Well, to be fair, the presence of a top dog does not preclude other dogs. It's pretty clear in Rogue Squadron, for instance, that the VF-4 Lightning and VF-11 Thunderbolt have seen frontline service along with the marks of VF-1 that were contemporary to them. If nothing else, as the technologies it embodies advance ever further, the VF-1 does tend to get progressively more expensive. (For the same reason, it's probable that the VF-19 Excalibur will see production, even though the YF-19 prototype didn't win the Project Supernova trial.)

So I wouldn't necessarily rule out any later Macross platform solely on the basis of the VF-1 still being in production.

>>(also, the Trinity would solve that whole Alto/Sheryl/Ranka triangle
>>like THAT. *snaps fingers* Just saying.)
>
>Um.
>
>No.

Yeah, I don't actually know what you're talking about there, but Corwin, Utena, and Anthy are not in the business of sorting out other people's romantic bullshit; not only is that not a service they offer, they've barely got a grip on their own half the time. :)

--G.
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Yeah, Geoff thought so too, except for the Mos Eisley part.

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Heh.

>I'd also like to get back to Shepard's team on Paragon.

Though this is a fair point, I should note that it may not be entirely fair to blame the Shepard's 11 layoff on Korra, inasmuch as she came along (for me, anyway) more than a year after the most recently completed episode; that momentum had already been lost pretty thoroughly as a result of The Summer When Shit Got Real. (WARNING: Medical Drama.) A contributing factor may well have been that I never bothered playing Mass Effect 3 beyond the scene on Mars.

Incidentally, the Cancer Adventure also clobbered the momentum on the fourth issue of Bubblegum Crisis: The Iron Age, which I had just started getting back into some kind of groove on when the diagnosis came down. I wrote a couple of scenes for that which I had forgotten about entirely until I ran across them while rereading the draft the other day in search of whatever it is I'm in search of when I reread long-stalled drafts.

--G.
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I started recording my own play-through with Arisa Shepard, but life and other games got in the way before I got to Rannoch. :/ ONE of these days...

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Just how empty do you think my life is, anyway? :)

--G.
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This is what is called a rhetorical question, isn't it? :)

Ominous Hummmmmmmm and all... :)

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Michael

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

Yes, Frank. It's very wrong.

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(context here)

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

That'll be "horribly wrong", then...

--G.
I thought I was quoting Dr. Clayton Forrester, but it's a very old memory fragment.
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"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

In accordance with Federal Regulation WTF/AA-2007:

"A deadly bee weapon... Bees. My God."

She is a deadly bee weapon. It is as glorious as it sounds.

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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Also: Worm is how you write a dark superhero story. Big Two hacks take note.

The former sounds like something Big Fire would do, based on a passage in Silver Guardian:

Agent A laughed gaily at that. "Oh, 674, you are an
imaginative one," she said. "You have a bright future ahead of you, I
think. No, I didn't stage that, but it's an excellent idea for some
future operation. Lull some unsuspecting city into thinking it has a
giant protector, then dash all its hopes in a single day of fire and
terror! I -like- the way you think."

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

I don't wish to seem as though I'm dissing the great John Colicos, but what, exactly, is so compelling about a craven quisling without even the most basic facility for detecting obvious facts like, "Your so-called allies hate and intend to kill all humans, such as yourself, genius"?

I mean, don't get me wrong, Gaius Baltar isn't any better - a man so daft he would side with an enemy bent on the extermination of the species of which he is himself a member is always going to be kind of a hard sell in the "sure, I'll buy that there is a point to this character" department - but OG Baltar? Really? I mean, really? :)

--G.
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(Also the whole "well, let's just make him a cult leader thing", which Callis sold really well, but jesus...)

Michael C. Fortner
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There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".