Quote:Rajvik wrote:
I'll keep this part brief as I'm on a mobile device but some of this you already know and some of it will come out after this incident.
1. I don't usually talk to hear myself pontificate. Not IRL and not as a character. I'm a do-er not a talker but this would be something i would be talking about.
Quote:2. Unfortunately i would be speaking in counterpoint to Rob saying that the fact that neither he nor his crew could not be counted on to ensure he got sufficient sleep to keep these incidents from occurring shows that none of them are competent for the job.This would be pretty clear. Miyu, in particular, chose to defend The Professor against someone who had at first denied him entry into the particular docking slip (which, as a note, in Serenity Valley, if you rent it, it's yours for that period. As long as you're not doing specifically Boskonian things in that slip like slaving, they don't care overmuch what it is, you get to do it as long as you're renting it). That she escalated to lethal force in the process means she is NOT qualified, and never will be qualified, to be one of The Professor's caretakers.
In fact, Miyu will probably be the one in the absolute worst amount of trouble, attempted manslaughter and definitely assault with a deadly weapon on (at least) two individuals given the particular contexts of the situation. The Professor would mostly just be in trouble for effectively starting the fight when he should have stood down and left the Friez and Chris to their business. Although it also depends on his further actions.
Under the particular circumstances, Ryoko and Catty would be considered simply incompetent by negligence, minor accessories to the main crimes at worst. They might qualify to be caretakers, if they can get past their love of The Professor and realize he's got an illness that must actually be managed rather than simply channeled.
Odds are pretty damned good, though, that The Professor, as part of any parole (assuming he doesn't just get sent to Azkaban), would be assigned an "independent" caretaker to get him into managing his Blue Hair Lifestyle.
Quote:3. As of one week after this incident a notice will go out informing Fenspace that not only was the Professor banned from Solaris 7 space but that all Friezes could claim station resident status and protection.The ink on the paperwork declaring The Professor and his entourage banned from Serenity Valley (after serving whatever sentence they receive) will be delivered, ink not even dry yet, moments after the trial and sentencing concludes, if not actually part of the sentence.
Quote:M Fnord wrote:Very much, if anything past the local constabulary happens, it would be things like, "Hey, Great Justice, can you please dump this man down a very deep hole and pull up the ladder? Thanks."
I'm going to throw this thought out here: whatever happens next with the
Professor and his entourage isn't a Convention-scale issue. I know we
like to say "oh, there'll be a Convention over this" for just
about every damn thing under the sun but honestly? This whole mess is a
local dustup between the Professor and the Browncoat sheriffs. However
that shakes out I don't see it as being a Thing that needs to be
speechified and legislated over on the scale of all Fenspace. People who
like to hear themselves talk (*coughcough*Noah*cough*) will no doubt
say many grand and eloquent things about What Must Be Done etc. but the
Convention as a whole (or even represented by SMOFcon) will not decide
"the future of one of the most prolific minds of the Fenspace
Convention" as Rob put it. Assuming it gets that far that is the duty of a tribunal or jury in Serenity Valley, not the Convention.
For the Browncoats, this is very much not "deciding the future of one of the most prolific minds of the Fenspace Convention." He's already proven himself to be not worth all of that to them.
BTW, to sum up Jeph's reaction: This is the second time the place he calls home has been seriously disrupted. The first time was the Battle of Serenity Valley during the Boskonian Wars. This time he's taken it a little more personally; the Boskonian attack, it was a threat to pretty much everyone, so it was harder to take that way. He was once an independent freighter captain himself. That, and let's just say that Nene and Geo were both watching when the blood was actually splattered across the decking. Neither one took that sight particularly well. Have you ever heard an astromech actually doing the dry heaves? You don't want to.
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