As you've now see, it involves a new location for the team.

> > > Though actually it's not much like a cop at all, really. It's more like a judge tossing Lara in jail because she shows up at a Legionnaire's trial to convince the judge to change his mind. > > They call that "perverting the course of justice." > Either way, the point is it's something a brave person has to do it they believe a friend or acquaintance is getting the shaft. Lara isn't one to stand by quietly while the Lair Legion, or PV Earth, is essentially sentenced to death. She's a little confused about why the Chronicler, who's worked here all his life, can't understand that, and why he doesn't at least care enough about what he's destroying to at least explain it.

What I'm getting at is that a story like that can be written two ways: it's the plucky reporter up against the brutal corrupt uncaring cops, or it's brave cops trying to wrestle with a delicate and deadly situation while the annoying reporter pushes her nose in and wrecks everything.

> That's where the assumption about insanity comes in. Only someone in that position who's insane would sentence people to destruction without really caring, because his own personal mood or agenda is above all. To her it seems a bit like destroying the moon to avoid a few hours of solar eclipse.

Who says the Chronicler doesn't care? He might care but have to do his job anyway.

Or to put it another way, in the past I've had to make staff redundant or fire them for some beahviour issues. I haven't wanted to do it but it's been my job. Better that I did it and did it right than leave it to somebody else who might have done it badly.

> > He's not really a ruler so much as a senior administrator, at the top of the heriarchy we saw a while back when Mumphrey was under investigation (although that was initiated by Symmetry). > That's why sooner or later she's going to need some explanation about the Chronicler. She has to either be able to no longer perceive him as a threat, or at least figure out why he needs to be one (surprising that she'll take either one, isn't it?).

Maybe Lisa can help with that.

> If he continues to be a threat, especially if he's an escalating one, like if she believes he's determined to destroy the Legion no matter how many times he's thwarted: When Lara can't get angry, she gets smart. Once she discovers there's a heirarchy, she'd begin to display a Hooded Hood like attribute, and essentially "shake the tree and see what falls out".

Although the cosmic office holders are "appointed" we've never defined by whom (and never will if I get my way), so really the Triumverate as at the top of the tree.