*Giggles* It's nice to know such things stretch across the entire Alliance. Although I do quite like what the 511th is using it for. Very productive of them. The scene with Knoke and Saint-Exupéry was nice, but then, I'm always a sucker for military characters that aren't the main cast being competent and decent people.

>"It's not that I don't like Hazelnussomeletten, it's just a bit of an
>unusual thing to see someone eating every day,"

And here's this weeks food scene! Actually, when was the last time I had Omelets of any sort...? Hmm.

> "Technically this is classified Liberion material. They may want to know
>what we want it for."

This bit has me wanting to go browsing wikipedia and such to try and work out just what project Gryph might be poking into, along with how paranoid the people in question will be about him asking.

Gryph and Minnas discussion on her getting training in the Force is interesting. For Mio and Wilma, the need to get their magic back was/is nearly all-consuming. Hell, Mio ripped open reality on a desperate gamble. But with Minna, she keeps fighting in other ways, ways those two will never quite get. The perils of being the only one there that understands the importance of well done paperwork, I suppose.

>Neuroi-chan

Over in the New EPU thread on Bobs forums, we were wondering if Neuroi-chan would make an appearance. Someone made the comment that it was the sort of thing you did with the Bumas, or the Angels over in NXE. And the Invid more recently, now that I think about it. I'm really curious to see where you go with this. I doubt that it's going to be as simple as 'evil automation' or 'copying the enemy'

>She also knew that the young witch, against direct orders, had sought to
>make more meaningful contact with it - which was why, after the Project
>Warlock fiasco (which these events had indirectly precipitated), she'd been
>packed off home to Fusō with a high honor... and a dishonorable discharge
>from the Imperial Navy that had been kept secret from her, which struck von
>Hammer as a curiously backhanded way of recognizing her heroism in the
>battle against Air Chief Marshal Maloney's rogue creation.

... How do you neglect to mention a dishonourable discharge? That must have made her return awkward.

>BE ADVISED FMR MGEN WILHELM VON REICHENBERG LKK
>ESCAPED THIS AM FROM JOINT FORCES MILITARY STOCKADE BITCHE
>MAY ATTEMPT AIR OR SEA DEPARTURE FROM EUROPE
>POSSIBLE DESTINATIONS BRITANNIA - LIBERION - NEUKARLSLAND - AUSTRALIS
>ALL SEAPORTS AND AIRBASES TO MAINTAIN VIGILANCE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
>DOSSIER AND SPECIAL INFORMATION TO FOLLOW

Son of a-! You know, it's moments like this that make 'shot while resisting arrest' so appealing in fiction. He'll turn up, but he's going to make a hell of a mess before he's done, isn't he?

>"Aren't you even the least bit curious about why they're humanity's enemy,
>though?" Yoshika asked.
>"No," Mio replied flatly, folding her arms.

They've both got a fair point there, I have to admit.

>Sprawled on the bed, Wolfgang took a couple of sleeping sniffs of the air,
>then woke, raised his head, and made the soft hrf sound that was as close
>as he ever got to a bark after hours.

Wolfgang is a dog that understands there is a time for noise. Beats out the dogs I've had over the years, that's for sure :)

>"You're copying them out from memory?"

Do Detians have better memory as well, or has he just gotten really good at remembering stuff he has to rewrite on occasion?

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter