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Subj: Upon a star?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 at 01:28:30 pm EDT
Reply Subj: I wish!
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:33:46 am EDT (Viewed 464 times)


> > He's [the Void Scholar] acting like a traditional Chinese patriarch and telling her only what is good for her, while making arrangements about her which he feels no need to discuss. He's expecting obedience and submission in exchange for which he will see to her best interests as he determines them. It's an old East vs new West culture clash.
> Actually it would be two Eastern cultures clashing, if you consider modern sensibilities. Liu Xi likely looks up to Chiaki as an example, since Chiaki comes from the most similar culture - and Chiaki is strong, independent, irrepressible, and impossible to push around, while still being polite, friendly and while she denies it, somewhat heroic.

It's a reflection that Liu Xi might want to have "on screen" sometime. On the one hand, her "grandfather" is filling a void she must have had in her disrupted and somewhat lonely life, offering all those family belonging/protection moments she's never had. On the other, the price he demands for it is that she surrenders up the contemporary and Western perspectives she's been exposed to.

> > > Speaking of which, I'm sure after meeting him and getting a "creepy" vibe, Lara might be keeping a close eye on the Carnifex suddenly becoming active and wonder why.
> > He's the world's most powerful superhero. Naturally he'd fly in to save the day against the alien invaders who wanted to conquer the Earth. Hurrah for him!
> Even so, Lara remembers him as being a little creepy. She doesn't really push that much, though, because she also senses that nobody really agrees with that assessment. It's one of those things where you feel like something isn't right, but say nothing because nobody else seems to notice.
> Though because of that, Lara will most likely let him go about his business and watch quietly until he does something to justify the 'creepy' vibe.

Then she gets to live.

> > The Carnifex has effectively established that Earth is a very bad place to mess with. On the one hand it's going to keep a lot of small fry away from the solar system. On the other it's put Earth to the top of the list of cosmic menaces with Galactivac and Thugos.
> This is where I get to tell a little story of how Lara realizes these things: Back home, while she's not exactly a full cosmic being, it's like she's in the back seat watching cosmic beings drive the universe.
> That means she's been trained to recognize things, to see very large, complex plans in action and sometimes figure them out.
> In this case, Lara probably recognized the constant Shee-Yar escalation every time they've been defeated by the Lair Legion, and their obsession with destroying Earth. It's quite simple to "do the math" at that point - sooner or later, the Shee-Yar would get some kind of edge and destroy Earth.

Actually, I think the Shee-Yar has only ever been aggressive against Earth twice before this, when they and many of the star-empires were under the control of Lord Resolution, who had an ability to lock into a genetic obedience code designed by the Celestians into almost all life, and when they were enslaved as part of the Parody Master's dominion and troops had to fight because their homeworlds were hostage for teir endeavours.

What's changed this time is that the Emperess Lie'and'Dry has gone and he brother now rules the Imperium.

> That's why Lara, while she might not like the solution the Carnifex had, she might reluctantly agree with it. The currently Lair Legion strategy with the dangerous Shee-Yar was to occasionally defeat them somehow and then turn a blind eye to their military advancement until they tried to hit Earth again. Lara sees that as an unsound strategy, because sooner or later it'll be too late. Of course, that's where Lara's biggest fault comes into play - she doesn't really have the heart to do drastic "necessary" things like wiping out an empire.

It's the classic situation of picking on a big bully and flattening him to warn others to back off and not disturb you.

I'm looking forward eventually to chronicling the effects of the sudden removal of arguably the most powerful remaining local galactic civilisation. There's certainly going to be some territory-grabbing, but it also opens the way for us to introduce new races from the space on the far side of Shee-Yar territory. We need some new star-faring villains anyhow.

> Chiaki never needs to lie - the truth hurts more, after all. And if someone asks her a question she doesn't want to answer, she just ignores it.
> She might make excuses in certain cases though, that aren't lies. For instance instead of "we're rifling through your files" she could have said "I needed to use your computer" and dispense with the detail.

Evading his questions probably isn't the way to get Graham's co-operation.




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