There's a few good points there I've been meaning to address, both here and in the rewrite pass I'll do when I'm finished. I'm putting that rewrite off to some extent though. I'm on holiday at the moment, visiting friends over in the US, so I've been mashing out the installments of the story as it hits me. And given I've had horrible writer's block going on two years now, the fact I'm writing so much is a victory in it's own right.
Regarding the Professor's Blue Hair Day issues, Chris isn't really in a position to consider it in-story at the moment. Once things calm down, he might have a little more sympathy for the guy. The problem here isn't entirely with the Professor. It's with his Lovely Assistants. Earlier in the story, I had Miyu go 'wait, when did he sleep last?'. As one of his carers, and being well aware he's more unstable the longer he goes without sleep, that's the sort of thing she should have already been keeping track of and dealt with before letting him off the Sol Bianca, not when he's gone charging across Serenity Valley and has someone willing to use force to keep him away from his goal right in front of him. The girls have gotten careless. Maybe it's because he's spent too long out at Hades and beyond, where there are no innocent bystanders to endanger with his experiments, maybe it's their own issues (Miyu is the 'reluctant homicidal assassin robot' after all), but the end result is that they've gotten careless. Hell, the incident in France is a demonstration of the fact that they might have always been a little careless, or at least limited in seeing the consequences of not taking precautions. Frankly, they're lucky it happened on the edge of a station with only a small amount of bystanders at risk, and not somewhere like Marsbase Sera.
As for letting him onto the station in the first place? This is one of the things I'm going to expand on in the rewrite, but it's an unfortunate side effect of the Professors popularity among Fen, and the fact that when he's shown up in the past, the worst he's done in the minds of many is disturbing the peace. While some people were worried he'd cause trouble, most figured that at worst, there'd be a case of Weird Science somewhere, or he'd find whatever he was looking for and run off again. They let him in because they figured he'd try and get in anyway if something had his attention, and at least this way they could track him.
I suspect the next Con, as Rob's already started with, will have a lot of attention on Mads and their behavior, and the risk they pose to others. And amusingly, given the fame he's going to get from this incident, Chris is going to be leading the charge in support of Mads and helping them when they need it, as opposed to just locking them up in Azkabans mad science wing.
Regarding the Professor's Blue Hair Day issues, Chris isn't really in a position to consider it in-story at the moment. Once things calm down, he might have a little more sympathy for the guy. The problem here isn't entirely with the Professor. It's with his Lovely Assistants. Earlier in the story, I had Miyu go 'wait, when did he sleep last?'. As one of his carers, and being well aware he's more unstable the longer he goes without sleep, that's the sort of thing she should have already been keeping track of and dealt with before letting him off the Sol Bianca, not when he's gone charging across Serenity Valley and has someone willing to use force to keep him away from his goal right in front of him. The girls have gotten careless. Maybe it's because he's spent too long out at Hades and beyond, where there are no innocent bystanders to endanger with his experiments, maybe it's their own issues (Miyu is the 'reluctant homicidal assassin robot' after all), but the end result is that they've gotten careless. Hell, the incident in France is a demonstration of the fact that they might have always been a little careless, or at least limited in seeing the consequences of not taking precautions. Frankly, they're lucky it happened on the edge of a station with only a small amount of bystanders at risk, and not somewhere like Marsbase Sera.
As for letting him onto the station in the first place? This is one of the things I'm going to expand on in the rewrite, but it's an unfortunate side effect of the Professors popularity among Fen, and the fact that when he's shown up in the past, the worst he's done in the minds of many is disturbing the peace. While some people were worried he'd cause trouble, most figured that at worst, there'd be a case of Weird Science somewhere, or he'd find whatever he was looking for and run off again. They let him in because they figured he'd try and get in anyway if something had his attention, and at least this way they could track him.
I suspect the next Con, as Rob's already started with, will have a lot of attention on Mads and their behavior, and the risk they pose to others. And amusingly, given the fame he's going to get from this incident, Chris is going to be leading the charge in support of Mads and helping them when they need it, as opposed to just locking them up in Azkabans mad science wing.