Another possible sidebar, for consideration...
**Fenspace's handgun collector**
Only a particular sort of Fan is able to be a firearms collector:
* He has to be willing to spend money on something that might never be used (the "collector mentality").
* He has to have a paranoid streak to his personality, so that he'll want to collect weapons.
* He has to be wealthy enough to be able to collect something as expensive as exotic sidearms.
* He has to live in a place where the customs and rules allow private ownership of firearms, or be the person who makes the rules where he lives.
* He has to have a source, or a number of sources, for hand weapons.
This narrows the potential number of known handgun collectors in Fenspace to one. And, yes, Noah Scott //does// collect sidearms.
The Scott collection started as a pair of SIG Sauer P229s chambered for .357 Sig rounds (the US Air Marshals' pistol), intended for repelling hostile boarders of [[ships
tellvia|Noah's home]. They were never used for that purpose. Noah still uses one of these (loaded with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaser_Safety_Slug|Glaser blue safety slugs]) as his personal sidearm of choice; the other was lost in early June 2013 with Yoriko Nikaido.
By mid-2013, his collection has grown to include over two dozen weapons, all of which are fully functional. The prize pieces in the collection, both on display in Noah's office, are a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet|MB Associates Mark I Gyrojet] (Kohran Li hand-makes ammunition for it) and a "Whistler Special" chambered for 9×19mm Parabellum. The largest piece in the collection is a [[http://www.hkpro.com/mp5k.htm|H&K MP5K short 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun, with the optional attache case with trigger built into the handle]; Noah refuses to discuss how he obtained it, except to say that both Sora Hasegawa and Katz Schrödinger were there at the time.
(If folks would like to suggest other firearms for the Scott collection, feel free...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
**Fenspace's handgun collector**
Only a particular sort of Fan is able to be a firearms collector:
* He has to be willing to spend money on something that might never be used (the "collector mentality").
* He has to have a paranoid streak to his personality, so that he'll want to collect weapons.
* He has to be wealthy enough to be able to collect something as expensive as exotic sidearms.
* He has to live in a place where the customs and rules allow private ownership of firearms, or be the person who makes the rules where he lives.
* He has to have a source, or a number of sources, for hand weapons.
This narrows the potential number of known handgun collectors in Fenspace to one. And, yes, Noah Scott //does// collect sidearms.
The Scott collection started as a pair of SIG Sauer P229s chambered for .357 Sig rounds (the US Air Marshals' pistol), intended for repelling hostile boarders of [[ships
tellvia|Noah's home]. They were never used for that purpose. Noah still uses one of these (loaded with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaser_Safety_Slug|Glaser blue safety slugs]) as his personal sidearm of choice; the other was lost in early June 2013 with Yoriko Nikaido.By mid-2013, his collection has grown to include over two dozen weapons, all of which are fully functional. The prize pieces in the collection, both on display in Noah's office, are a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet|MB Associates Mark I Gyrojet] (Kohran Li hand-makes ammunition for it) and a "Whistler Special" chambered for 9×19mm Parabellum. The largest piece in the collection is a [[http://www.hkpro.com/mp5k.htm|H&K MP5K short 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun, with the optional attache case with trigger built into the handle]; Noah refuses to discuss how he obtained it, except to say that both Sora Hasegawa and Katz Schrödinger were there at the time.
(If folks would like to suggest other firearms for the Scott collection, feel free...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012