From: Capn_Corcoran (J_Corcoran@pinafore.fen)
To: nttp://fen.current-events.disc
Subject: re: Politics, Government, Drugs, Really Wild Things.
Date Posted: May 17th, 2013
Salutations.
In these troublesome times it behooves us to take the leaders we are given. Much like my nom du guerre's origin, I seem to serve under a Queen with a fractious Admiralty.
Admittedly there is more of a meritocracy under Suzumiya rather than the oligarchy under Victoria. This is partly a good thing. Naval commanders such as Brevet-Admiral Dodge would never have gotten anywhere near the popular support if he had remained in, to utilize the vernacular, the 'Danelaw.
That said, my esteemed colleague is correct. Extreme opposition calls for extreme measures. Several of the former students of Hogwarts passed through my sick bay bfore transit to the more developed hospitals of Kandor, Crystal Hiroshima, and the newly-constructed Crichton Memorial in Canberra, Australia, Terra.
My crew was, for a long time, unique amongst the population of the biomodded fen, having their physiognomies altered to the whim of scurrilous knaves and ne'er-do-wells. Sadly, the sight of twenty-seven near identical catgirls cowering in filthy rags that were once Hogwarts robes struck a chord of rage in my chest.
Especially since I had believed the EXACT technology had been excised from the memepool root-and-branch when I'd rescued my crew in the first place.
This is something truly frightening. The so-called Boskonians have managed to reverse engineer a biomod. Something we who work with handwavium regularly have thought to be impossible. Further details may be acquired through secure channels in three days, when my paper on the subject is "published" via Great Justice's think tank net.
Yours dutifully,
Captain J. Corcoran, SS Pinafore[i] Joint Space Defence [/i]
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
To: nttp://fen.current-events.disc
Subject: re: Politics, Government, Drugs, Really Wild Things.
Date Posted: May 17th, 2013
Salutations.
In these troublesome times it behooves us to take the leaders we are given. Much like my nom du guerre's origin, I seem to serve under a Queen with a fractious Admiralty.
Admittedly there is more of a meritocracy under Suzumiya rather than the oligarchy under Victoria. This is partly a good thing. Naval commanders such as Brevet-Admiral Dodge would never have gotten anywhere near the popular support if he had remained in, to utilize the vernacular, the 'Danelaw.
That said, my esteemed colleague is correct. Extreme opposition calls for extreme measures. Several of the former students of Hogwarts passed through my sick bay bfore transit to the more developed hospitals of Kandor, Crystal Hiroshima, and the newly-constructed Crichton Memorial in Canberra, Australia, Terra.
My crew was, for a long time, unique amongst the population of the biomodded fen, having their physiognomies altered to the whim of scurrilous knaves and ne'er-do-wells. Sadly, the sight of twenty-seven near identical catgirls cowering in filthy rags that were once Hogwarts robes struck a chord of rage in my chest.
Especially since I had believed the EXACT technology had been excised from the memepool root-and-branch when I'd rescued my crew in the first place.
This is something truly frightening. The so-called Boskonians have managed to reverse engineer a biomod. Something we who work with handwavium regularly have thought to be impossible. Further details may be acquired through secure channels in three days, when my paper on the subject is "published" via Great Justice's think tank net.
Yours dutifully,
Captain J. Corcoran, SS Pinafore[i] Joint Space Defence [/i]
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll