Black-and-Gray Morality: ...They also employ some efficient but ruthless people in their ranks; for example, Nadreck of Palain.
How is that YMMV?
"Worsel the Velantian, hard and durable and long-lived as Velantians are, had in twenty Tellurian years changed scarcely at all. As the first Lensman and the only Second-Stage Lensman of his race, the twenty years had been very fully occupied indeed.
He had solved the varied technological and administrative problems incident to the welding of Velantia into the structure of Civilization. He had worked at the many tasks which, in the opinion of the Galactic Council, fitted his peculiarly individual talents. In his "spare" time he had sought out in various parts of two galaxies, and had ruthlessly slain, widely-scattered groups of the Overlords of Delgon."
Children of the Lens Chapter 2
Actually the use of QX in the Lensman novels shows the age in which it was written. Morse code operators had a variety of shorthand signals, usually of 2 or 3 characters. QX was in fact used as OK as morse operators were keyed to using Q signals.
I wonder if Babylon Five creator J. Michael Starczynski based the Vorlons on the Arisians and the Shadows on the Eddorians?
I know, I know he may have decided to subvert expectations with both races during Season 4, but my point stands.
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What's up with the YMMV notations in this article.
Most of them make no sense and are obvious to anyone who has actually read the books.
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