This scene occurred to me, complete and as presented, in the shower about six years ago - before the invention of the Mini/Micro-Story format. I jotted it down and plopped it in the staff notes box, where it amused a couple of Suspects, and then forgot all about it until I ran across it while doing a recent sweep for disused threads in that box to archive. It has, and indeed needs, no context. :)

--G.
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"Befuddled query: He fixes the cable?"

While I would agree that it requires nothing more, I also think that this is one of those little hooks that would make a great starting point for a larger story. Heck, part of me thinks that this would make a great hook for a story <i>contest</i> - using that intro, write the best story surrounding it. If a few other limits were imposed (e.g, no bigger than a certain size, must include or exclude certain elements, etc), I bet you could get some really creative results...

Of course, I'm guessing you'd rather not have people doing that, but who knows - maybe it's time you let us amuse you with our writing? :)

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#&91;...#&93; in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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#include <stdsig.h>

I wonder what the over/under on excellence vs. serious injury would be in that scenario...

It's an interesting idea, and something I might look into sometime, but in this particular fragment's case I rather like that it doesn't go anywhere. I imagine, in fact, that it's entirely apocryphal. I would like to think that even at her Sithiest, Rei wouldn't authorize HK-47 to murder his way indiscriminately across the cosmos just to get a rug back. :)

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"If you must."

"Childlike glee: Best meatbag EVER!"
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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

>It's an interesting idea, and something I might look into sometime,
>but in this particular fragment's case I rather like that it
>doesn't go anywhere. I imagine, in fact, that it's entirely
>apocryphal. I would like to think that even at her Sithiest, Rei
>wouldn't authorize HK-47 to murder his way indiscriminately across the
>cosmos just to get a rug back. :)
>
Hmm... Unless the "Contempt Level" is more about making it messy and embarrassing, rather than messy and deadly. Though I must admit that I find that unrealistic :)

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<...> in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Heh. Conceivable, although canonically (in Scud the Disposable Assassin), a Scud's Contempt Level is the measure of how little the robot is programmed to care about collateral damage and bystander casualties in the pursuit of its target. A Scud set to Contempt Level 0 will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid harming anyone or anything other than its target, while one set to Contempt Level 10 will cheerfully lob an orbital colony at the city where the target lives if it can get hold of one.

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Yeah, that would be rather messy. In which case, I must agree that it's unlikely Rei would really have given that order over a rug. Oh well :)

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Seriously. There were times during her extended search operation on Jisatsu when she was very tempted, but since that was a rescue and not an elimination, she wasn't entirely sure HK wouldn't screw it up completely if she let him off his leash. :)

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This is the best explanation I've seen yet. :)

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Probably Atton from Knights of the Old Republic II.

--G.
He could totally have been played by Steve Buscemi.
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