> > Noted. I didn't mean it as an accusation, though, I just didn't want to add to confusion. Some of the facts presented in the new story could bleed through to stories that technically happened before otherwise.
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> Good thinking.
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I only say that because it's happened before.
> > If I have time to write something like that. If she's left behind, it would have to be perpetrated by Drury and/or Garrick, since I don't see the Lair Legion purposely leaving her there (for instance the return could require the Helicarrier, and Drury could refuse to bring Anna along, and the LL could choose to get her later when SPUD isn't interfering). And I can tell you, Yuki would be very unhappy about it.
> > Of course that means she won't be stuck there for long. Yuki is pretty tireless about rescues.
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> Actually, given that Anna's thought processes and development don;t always follow human norms I was wondering whether Anna might elect to stay there for a few days.
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That might be a tough call, because Anna is oddly fearful for an android. She would need some major motivation to stay.
> Her logic might go like this: the heroes have just basically restructured the socio-political arrangment of the thirty-two worlds. Great powers have fallen (although not all minions would be accounted for). Now the heroes are moving on - but what do the people left behind have to face next? And who helps them?
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She might worry about Yo particularly if she makes friends with the thought being. Mostly she'd be motivated by either concern about someone she cares for, or if someone really needs her.
> Anna's still technically leading a bunch of pterodactyl-riding pirates who right now possess probably the best means of communication remaining in the stitch-lands. Who else could tie all those people into Yo's new alliance at Golgamoria?
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Anna doesn't particularly like the pirates.
> And what adventures might be had on the way?
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That's what might make it interesting, if she's working with Yo especially. Anna might learn a lot about harnessing her own imagination, something that's relatively unique among her kind.
> Return after is probably easy. When (if) Yo delivers everyone to their new destination Anna could hitch a lift. Of course, if the new destination turns out to be on the other side of the galaxy she might feasibly need to place a call to Lara.
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Lara has never moved a whole planet at once. Ironically, something of that scale is better for Liu Xi to handle, because the number or size is irrelevant to her.
Also I haven't covered it before (because a story with it was axed) but Shen Rae's people probably have ships large enough to move that many people, and the Anchor technology may be able to hold the door to the other place. The problem is giving them the incentive - which may prove easy if they're given trading domain over the new world. After all, they're going to need some heavy-duty protection when the alien races who had the Shee-Yar find that world populated again.
> > > And the less reason there will be.
> > That all depends on government and SPUD politics. Anna still kind of is a weapon of mass destruction...in the possession of the Lair Legion.
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> I suspect Drury trusts the Legion more than he trusts Anna.
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In this case with good reason. Anna knows Drury ordered her capture and destruction (whether he was following other orders or not) and she dislikes him personally. Fortunately she promised not to harm anyone.
> > > We might get to that eventually. *sigh*
> > Oh I can cover that part, Mumph just has to be accessible first.
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> That's fine. I was sighing at the "eventually" part, not at having to do it.
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Noted.
> > From earlier discussions, I thought she lacked the means to do so. Or to get home, at least - she can probably kick the Void Scholar off the mortal plane temporarily, but being stuck in the future is another matter.
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> She's certainly in a corner, but as we've noted she's not who she once was; and now she's got another resource to play off in Danny. Once the dominoes eventually start falling...
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I suppose Danny could deny the entire realm, and maybe he and Liu Xi will be booted back where they came from. Unless it kills him first.
> > And as I've always offered, if you need someone covering a few extra things so you can catch up on the main plot, email me.
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> I'll keep that in mind.
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Okay.
