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"Star-Crossed III: Goodyear (Pop. 225)"
 
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[20100630 Added line 43 note, which was thoughtlessly omitted from the original release. --G.]

[41] Goodyear is called Goodyear because my initial thought was for the environment on this Halo to be like Pandora, the planet in Borderlands; I had some vague notion of conflating the Library and the Vault, and some other things, but then I realized I was overthinking the plumbing and just went with the sort-of-Canada-like environment sans Vault. Besides, I didn't want the Halo settlement to be a depressing shithole, which pretty much rules out anyplace on Pandora as a model. Anyway, Goodyear is thus Goodyear because, in the more Borderlands-like version, it was going to
be Fyrestone, the opening town in that game.

[43] Gryphon's alias here has the first name Dan because it's one of my standard first-name variations for alternate selves, which tend to follow my own shortened first name's consonant-vowel-N structure (cf. Don Griffin, Dan "Captain Photon" Hudson), and the last name Harris in honor of the late Captain Phil Harris of the fishing vessel Cornelia Marie (of Deadliest Catch fame). The news of Capt. Harris's death had just reached the studio at about the time that I was going into serious head-down mode on this piece.

[73]The Goodyear Sojourner follows a naming convention that we've seen elsewhere in UF, and indeed in the real world - the first word in the ship's name is the name of the shipping line that employed it, the second the individual name of the ship. Technically, therefore, I suppose the colonists should have named their town "Sojourn", but "Goodyear" won the poll. I guess the Goodyear Line could sue them for trademark infringement, but that would be poor sportsmanship on their part.

[84] In the UF universe, people almost always assume that anyone with an Australian or New Zealand accent is from Concord Dawn. And, to be fair, they're usually right; it's Australasia's most populous former colony by a long chalk, and Concordians far outnumber anybody else with that sort of accent.

[100] Here we learn that, by the source material, this is Delta Halo, aka Installation 05, the one from Halo 2 - though how many of them there are in the UF universe and what they're for may end up being very different than it is in the Halo games, and this is the only one known in UF as of 2356.

[213] The International Shyam Federation recognizes 1,283 different primary varieties of the dish, and Gryphon knows how to make them all (though he doesn't particularly like the fish ones). It's his favorite food by far.

[329]

As seen on ambulances and various other urgent care facilities in the United States. The Star of Life was adopted as one of the Galactic Standard symbols for medical care largely because, unlike such other well-known symbols as the Red Cross (Earth), Carnelian Circle (Cardassia), Green Crescent (Vulcan), and so forth, it isn't symbolic of the color of any particular lifeform's blood - though since it's blue, people sometimes assume it's originally of turian or Andorian derivation. When defining interstellar signage and symbology, you can't win 'em all.

[378] It's actually a parting (and occasionally a general sort of benediction), not a greeting.

[423] Khalt is a Salusian cereal crop - like wheat, but grows under a wider range of climatic conditions.

[500] I don't think even Tali herself realized that she had come to trust Gryphon this much in the short time they'd so far been together until that came out of her mouth. He certainly hadn't.

[594] Hey, it's the Landmaster from Damnation Alley again! That thing gets everywhere!

[724] When I was dividing the master draft into episodes, I got to here and said, "Ah, hell, I can't make this one the right length without breaking right into the middle of this scene! ... Actually... "


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