Scavina’s had quite enough of lectures on Survey Contact Team protocols, thankyouverymuch.
I hope you all had an enjoyable Halloween, ideally more treats than tricks. I mentioned a while back that my son declared that he would dress up as a Dalek, and you can see the results of our efforts in the post below.
Can it really be November already? Well, if it is, then this week must be the First Friday of the Month bonus update! Hooray! Tune in on Friday, Nov 5th, for the next thrilling installment of Galaxion.
Scavina’s had quite enough of the peculiar way Carl’s been dancing around the issue [applause from the audience who all sympathise with her]
Glad to see Scavina’s going to pursue the source of Carl’s skittishness.
Of course, she could always just pin Carl down and get him to come straight, which would probably be easier and safer than any kind of outside expedition.
I think Scavina thinks they can take all their contact protocols, fold them up until they’re all corners, and stick them forcefully — I know in her case I’d certainly make this more than clear. I’d say they each need to give Carl a dope slap until he comes clean, but I think he’s had too much head trauma already. Maybe he’s ticklish? His dancing about does make me wonder if our “friendlies” here are a lot more complicated than we’ve seen and heard so far, and he doesn’t know how to tell a covering lie about it without getting found out — after all, if you want the best lies, you should go to the source.
Pursue.
Looks like you mentally mooshed pursue and peruse.
Insectoid (& Dave VD) beat me to the punch, so I won’t pursue the matter. :p
But something else just struck me. Scavina here uses the title Ms. for Vessa. That struck me as strange, as the IP is basically a military service and one would expect her to be comfortable with rank titles. She has been doing a lot of work with civilians lately, because of the recent refit, but it that isn’t really an explanation. So I went to the cast page to see what rank she is, but found very few ranks listed. Chain of command is very important to most military minds, so this seems like a bit of an oversight. Survey Service might be modeled after ST, with Mr. Spock, etc., but Spock himself would generally use Captain, Sir, etc, when addressing Kirk (except for emotional outbursts)…
IP may be military, but TerSA is not. Vessa, along with the rest of the regular crew of the Galaxion, works for TerSA and has no military rank. The reason the cast page doesn’t mention a lot of ranks is because very few of them have one.
Argh! How did I mess that up? How did it slip past my proofreaders? Well, much as it pains me to leave a spelling mistake in place, I’ll follow my own rule of saving all corrections for the printed version (ETA: April 2011).
Once again, thanks everyone for pointing it out. It would be worse to be embarrassed by something like that in print!
Yes, much embarrassment here as one of your proof readers – and an English degree to boot! Sorry!
I’m guessing Carl will be the translator since it’s a safe bet none of the Orehu know English (no real need to learn it unless someone happens to like languages).
Ooo, interesting thought. It just occurred to me that English might be a good code language in the same way Navajo was for the Americans in WWII. Of course, this is dependent upon the Rautani not knowing it.
BTW, I checked and all of the Orehu statements in the background are spelled correctly.
Nicely defused for the moment.
“But Jax Augustus said…hey! Are you listening to me?! Come back here!”
Is it wrong that whenever I hear the name ‘Jax Augustus’ my first mental image is of a giant green Han Solo rabbit?
Cause that would be awesome.
Well, we don’t know what the Myradi look like yet, and Jax made first contact with them, so who knows? Maybe your mental image will turn out to be prophetic. Not suggesting either way, mind you!
Extra points for saying “All right” instead of “Alright.”
On the other hand, given the current progress of language, there is next to no chance whatsoever that “all right” won’t have finished its collapse into one word (like “all most,” “all together,” “all ways,” “all though,” “all mighty,” “all right,” “all ready,” and even “all one,” and “all (though) be it”) by whatever century it is that Galaxion takes place in again, given that it arguably has at least achieved parity with the longer form even now.