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* Partly confirmed, in that the Pa'anuri are involved. The "mastermind" is an ancient AI formerly known as Synthetic Wind, now Broken Wind. She was tasked with hiding the Oafan station from the Pa'anuri, who the ancient Oafa were at war with. Fast forward to the comic, Broken Wind is simply continuing her task of hiding from Pa'anuri, by removing annie plants, teraports and artificial gravity. After being informed of the true situation, she ceases all attacks, restores gravity and stops jamming comms and teraports.
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Is a rebel faction of Pa'anuri. The impossible space habitat is so incredibly old, it could very well have drifted from Andromeda. The "enemy" has a strong enough dislike of annie power to take out every annie power source of any size they find, suggesting they are Pa'anuri, but they also do it with such surgical precision as to leave a human unharmed when their suit's annie has been shot own, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\\
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Is a rebel faction of Pa'anuri. The impossible space habitat is so incredibly old, it could very well have drifted from Andromeda. The "enemy" has a strong enough dislike of annie power to take out every annie power source of any size they find, suggesting they are Pa'anuri, but they also do it with such surgical precision as to leave a human unharmed when their suit's annie has been shot own, out, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\\
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Is a rebel faction of Pa'anuri. The impossible space habitat is so incredibly old, it could very well have drifted from Andromeda. The "enemy" has a strong enough dislike of annie power to take out every annie power source of any size they find, suggesting they are Pa'anuri, but they also do it with such surgical precision as to leave a human unharmed when their suit's annie has been shot own, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\\
Furthermore, this could explain the existence of the habitat itself. If there is a faction of Pa'anuri who do not wish to harm Baryonic life, they could very well have built the habitat to preserve Andromedan life from the machinations of the more violent Pa'anuri.\\
Is a rebel faction of Pa'anuri. The impossible space habitat is so incredibly old, it could very well have drifted from Andromeda. The "enemy" has a strong enough dislike of annie power to take out every annie power source of any size they find, suggesting they are Pa'anuri, but they also do it with such surgical precision as to leave a human unharmed when their suit's annie has been shot own, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\\
Furthermore, this could explain the existence of the habitat itself. If there is a faction of Pa'anuri who do not wish to harm Baryonic life, they could very well have built the habitat to preserve Andromedan life from the machinations of the more violent Pa'anuri.\\
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The timing is awfully suspicious. Ten thousand years of peace, the teraport is re-invented, and a few years later the core generator is "revealed" to have been a weapon all along. Also, when it was very first spun up, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-03 it looked right]], then [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-06-08 some Pa'anuri arrived]], and then the trouble started. I guess the core generator would have done what it was claimed to if they hadn't intervened. That does mean it was designed as leverage, but not a declaration of war. From the Pa'anuri perspective, the Barionics broke their word by starting to use teraports again, so scorched-galaxy vengeance was called for.
[[WMG: The ghost in PDCL was Petey]]
Some fraction of the AI remained active and guilty. It couldn't think straight because it was physically cut off from the rest of itself, so it used the artificial gravity to play the sewer pipes like pipe organs.
The timing is awfully suspicious. Ten thousand years of peace, the teraport is re-invented, and a few years later the core generator is "revealed" to have been a weapon all along. Also, when it was very first spun up, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-03 it looked right]], then [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-06-08 some Pa'anuri arrived]], and then the trouble started. I guess the core generator would have done what it was claimed to if they hadn't intervened. That does mean it was designed as leverage, but not a declaration of war. From the Pa'anuri perspective, the Barionics broke their word by starting to use teraports again, so scorched-galaxy vengeance was called for.
[[WMG: The ghost in PDCL was Petey]]
Some fraction of the AI remained active and guilty. It couldn't think straight because it was physically cut off from the rest of itself, so it used the artificial gravity to play the sewer pipes like pipe organs.
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** Petey is a massively distributed and exceptionally powerful mind with substantial military experience and a vast manufacturing capability. Lota can only shoot what Lota knows about, and Petey is only currently limited by his need to fight the Paanuri. My money is on the fuzzy one.
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[[WMG: Celeschul is going to be important]]
It's come up a few times. Firstly, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-02-22 Tagon used to serve in the infantry there]]. Much later, he does some security work at Mall One for someone with strong ties to Celeschul, who appears to have hired the Toughs [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-06-21 anticipating that they would do something violent]]. What's more, that miracle cure project on Haven Hive the U.N.S. tried to sabotage? Haven Hive is orbit around Celeschul.
It's come up a few times. Firstly, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-02-22 Tagon used to serve in the infantry there]]. Much later, he does some security work at Mall One for someone with strong ties to Celeschul, who appears to have hired the Toughs [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-06-21 anticipating that they would do something violent]]. What's more, that miracle cure project on Haven Hive the U.N.S. tried to sabotage? Haven Hive is orbit around Celeschul.
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It's already been revealed that she [[spoiler: signed up as a spy for the UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence department]], and if she made up enough of her backstory to cover that up, there's not much reason for her to not have had certain records altered so that she's even more unassuming and able to infiltrate enemy agencies by being just barely old enough to legally join. It's even possible that she had work done, but I don't think she has (or if she did, her superiors didn't tell her the extent, and she dislikes looking so immature because it was more than she bargained for). She was (rightfully) expected to pass through enemy red tape by showing off the skills that would make her an invaluable asset to the target association while being considered ''just'' a prodigy, and not a former prodigy with a decade or more of post-collegiate and military-quality training under her belt. While the Toughs would accept an 18-year-old prodigy as a foot soldier with potential for being left in a lab far behind the front lines, it seems highly unlikely that [[spoiler: the U.N.S.]] would take a (relatively) trusted extreme prodigy in robotics and AI construction/classification (the latter assuming the Hencke/Ventura Scale is named after her and not a relative) and throw her behind enemy front lines instead of ''also'' sticking her in a lab somewhere... maybe with a gaggle of baseline Gavs, to give them a dissenting perspective.
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It's already been revealed that she [[spoiler: signed up as a spy for the UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence department]], and if she made up enough of her backstory to cover that up, there's not much reason for her to not have had certain records altered so that she's even more unassuming and able to infiltrate enemy agencies by being just barely old enough to legally join. It's even possible that she had work done, but I don't think she has (or if she did, her superiors didn't tell her the extent, and she dislikes looking so immature because it was more than she bargained for). She was (rightfully) expected to pass through enemy red tape by showing off the skills that would make her an invaluable asset to the target association while being considered ''just'' a prodigy, and not a former prodigy with a decade or more of post-collegiate and military-quality training under her belt. While the Toughs would accept an 18-year-old prodigy as a foot soldier with potential for being left in a lab far behind the front lines, it seems highly unlikely that [[spoiler: the U.N.S.]] would take a (relatively) trusted extreme prodigy in robotics and AI construction/classification (the latter assuming the Hencke/Ventura Scale is named after her and not a relative) and throw her behind enemy front lines instead of ''also'' sticking her in a lab somewhere... maybe with a gaggle of baseline Gavs, if any of them were put in AI development, to give them a dissenting perspective.
perspective or let them work out Artificial Intelligence problems (which seems to be within their qualifications but outside of their specialty).
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* Really hoping this isn't just another "obligatory" [[DoctorWho Doctor Who]]/arbitrary crossover guess, or an "X looks like Y in a tiny, specific way" (in this case, taking over bodies and being spat from the mouth one way or another), so here it goes... All iterations and versions of the Laz'R'Us nanobot systems, plus Petey's version of them, are based on the same illegal nanobot system (plus, for some versions, an extra set of nannies designed to work in tandem with them). Assuming you're talking about "The Waters of Mars", it's possible but very, ''very'' unlikely that the Laz'R'Us nannies are a modified version of the parasites found on Mars. Beyond that, there really isn't any reasonable way for there to be a connection. Furthermore, the water bugs can synthesize water from other forms of matter with an unrealistic efficiency, and from what we've seen the RED #2 is a lot less efficient (even considering the possible density differences between fullerened armor-weave skin plates and water).
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[[WMG: With the deterioration of recent events, the Schlock crew will meet their [[DarkestHour darkest hour]] come 12/21/12 much as the [[RealLife world]] will. ]]
* The RealLife world ''didn't'' reach its "darkest hour", and the 12/21/2012 strip not only didn't feature anything bad happening to Tagon's Toughs, but it featured something that ''should'' be good for them, at least on average (assuming "high-level UNS operative who is actively trying to kill them dies" outweighs "higher-level UNS operative who is sick of dealing with their messes probably survives").
* The RealLife world ''didn't'' reach its "darkest hour", and the 12/21/2012 strip not only didn't feature anything bad happening to Tagon's Toughs, but it featured something that ''should'' be good for them, at least on average (assuming "high-level UNS operative who is actively trying to kill them dies" outweighs "higher-level UNS operative who is sick of dealing with their messes probably survives").
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[[WMG: Para Ventura is ''way'' [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]].]]
It's already been revealed that she [[spoiler: signed up as a spy for the UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence department]], and if she made up enough of her backstory to cover that up, there's not much reason for her to not have had certain records altered so that she's even more unassuming and able to infiltrate enemy agencies by being just barely old enough to legally join. It's even possible that she had work done, but I don't think she has (or if she did, her superiors didn't tell her the extent, and she dislikes looking so immature because it was more than she bargained for). She was (rightfully) expected to pass through enemy red tape by showing off the skills that would make her an invaluable asset to the target association while being considered ''just'' a prodigy, and not a former prodigy with a decade or more of post-collegiate and military-quality training under her belt. While the Toughs would accept an 18-year-old prodigy as a foot soldier with potential for being left in a lab far behind the front lines, it seems highly unlikely that [[spoiler: the U.N.S.]] would take a (relatively) trusted extreme prodigy in robotics and AI construction/classification (the latter assuming the Hencke/Ventura Scale is named after her and not a relative) and throw her behind enemy front lines instead of ''also'' sticking her in a lab somewhere... maybe with a gaggle of baseline Gavs, to give them a dissenting perspective.
It's already been revealed that she [[spoiler: signed up as a spy for the UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence department]], and if she made up enough of her backstory to cover that up, there's not much reason for her to not have had certain records altered so that she's even more unassuming and able to infiltrate enemy agencies by being just barely old enough to legally join. It's even possible that she had work done, but I don't think she has (or if she did, her superiors didn't tell her the extent, and she dislikes looking so immature because it was more than she bargained for). She was (rightfully) expected to pass through enemy red tape by showing off the skills that would make her an invaluable asset to the target association while being considered ''just'' a prodigy, and not a former prodigy with a decade or more of post-collegiate and military-quality training under her belt. While the Toughs would accept an 18-year-old prodigy as a foot soldier with potential for being left in a lab far behind the front lines, it seems highly unlikely that [[spoiler: the U.N.S.]] would take a (relatively) trusted extreme prodigy in robotics and AI construction/classification (the latter assuming the Hencke/Ventura Scale is named after her and not a relative) and throw her behind enemy front lines instead of ''also'' sticking her in a lab somewhere... maybe with a gaggle of baseline Gavs, to give them a dissenting perspective.
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* Zig-Zagged, because [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-02-17 while one one of the INT-AFF-INT personnel is a Gav]], it's not known if he was responsible for subverting the Osiri base.
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When Pibald made his theory, his idea was that the supply chain had been suborned somewhere, and nano-assemblers were smuggled in. Who could suborn a GavCorps [=GavCorps=] operation so effectively except another Gav?
* Doesn't one of the INT-AFF-INT officers in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-29 this strip]] look familiar?
* Doesn't one of the INT-AFF-INT officers in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-29 this strip]] look familiar?
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When Pibald made his theory, his idea was that the supply chain had been suborned somewhere, and nano-assemblers were smuggled in. Who could suborn a GavCorps operation so effectively except another Gav?
When Pibald made his theory, his idea was that the supply chain had been suborned somewhere, and nano-assemblers were smuggled in. Who could suborn a GavCorps operation so effectively except another Gav?
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** {{Jossed}}, he said he can't restore their memories, just flag false ones. It was only different in the case of Kevyn, as his time clone still Petey had secretly copied all of Kevyn's memories at the correct memories.
end of Book 8 (circa [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-05-14 the 2007-05-14 strip]]).
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**** I think we can consider it confirmed by the narrator in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-04-08 the 2012-04-08 strip]]: "Originally created by Commander Andreyasn to be a tactical genius with limited self-awareness, she [Tagii] was given sanity, sapience, and gender identity by Lieutenant Para Ventura..."
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[[WMG: The most recent arc will end when [[BigGood Petey]] swoops in and saves everybody.]]
It's connected to his fight against the Paanuri ''and'' it endangers his friends. This is the sort of thing he would intervene in if he could... and he can! And how else is anyone going to get out alive?
It's connected to his fight against the Paanuri ''and'' it endangers his friends. This is the sort of thing he would intervene in if he could... and he can! And how else is anyone going to get out alive?
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[[WMG: The 'Toughs ''have'' accrued enough enough karmic debt to destroy a planet]]
This is less a "wild mass guess" and more an "obvious in hindsight", but at the wedding of the Reverend and the Doctor, Ennesby declares that due to Petey's firefighting they've been part of the perfect wedding and "[t]he karmic debt [they're] accruing could destroy a planet" ([[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-01-22 last panel]]) - eleven months later... well, just read the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-02 fifth panel]].
This is less a "wild mass guess" and more an "obvious in hindsight", but at the wedding of the Reverend and the Doctor, Ennesby declares that due to Petey's firefighting they've been part of the perfect wedding and "[t]he karmic debt [they're] accruing could destroy a planet" ([[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-01-22 last panel]]) - eleven months later... well, just read the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-02 fifth panel]].
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**Given the amount of brain-overwriting in the current story-line (Random Access Memorabilia), I see no reason that Para couldn't be the brain of the (presumably) famous person for whom the scale is named, written into the body of a teenage girl to make it easier for her to get into the Toughs and thereby investigate the faction of the UNS that is causing the Toughs such heartburn.
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He signed one of his job applications [[{{Dune}} "God-emperor Pi the first"]], and StarWars has done the whole [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy "space habitat is really a hyperspace death ray"]] thing.
He signed one of his job applications [[{{Dune}} "God-emperor Pi the first"]], and StarWars has done the whole [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy "space habitat is really a hyperspace death ray"]] thing.
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[[WMG: Doythaban is alive...]]
* ... and he's working for the UNS Int-Aff-Int. He's one of those people always talking under Europa, but that we never see directly.
** Makes sense because he has a lot of experience with nannytech, and it's unlikely that he's died because if he were likely to be executed after his arrest, Haban would've figured that out. But he went willingly, even though Ennesby told him he could evade capture if he wanted to.
*** This is why we never actually see the Int-Aff-Int people talking, it'd ruin the big reveal!
* ... and he's working for the UNS Int-Aff-Int. He's one of those people always talking under Europa, but that we never see directly.
** Makes sense because he has a lot of experience with nannytech, and it's unlikely that he's died because if he were likely to be executed after his arrest, Haban would've figured that out. But he went willingly, even though Ennesby told him he could evade capture if he wanted to.
*** This is why we never actually see the Int-Aff-Int people talking, it'd ruin the big reveal!
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* Finally, officially, confirmed in-strip. She [[spoiler: says she works for the "UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence Corps."]]
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** {{Jossed}}, he said he can't restore their memories, just flag false ones.
*** Nope. He can fully restore previous memories. It just took him a bit longer.
**** So that'd make it double-Jossed? Jossed and Jossed again?
[[WMG: Petey has or is building a second Tagon's Toughs.]]
* Think about it: Tagon's Toughs are too useful to the Fleetmind for Petey to just let them go. And we have at least four persons at large that were once Toughs: General Karl Tagon, to command; Timeclone!Kevyn, Resident Mad Scientist; John Der Trihs, acknowledged master tactician; Shep, grunt and founding member. Plus, Doythaban could still be out there (remember the ancient Bene Gesserit axiom: they're not dead until you've seen the body, and even then, don't be too sure.) This implies, of course, at some point the twain shall meet, and likely recombine.
** [[spoiler:Since the next major plot arc apparently will revolve around Petey's proxy investigation of the abduction (possibly murder) of Timeclone!Kevyn and General Karl Tagon, this might be coming closer to realization.]]
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*** Nope. He can fully restore previous memories. It just took him a bit longer.
**** So that'd make it double-Jossed? Jossed and Jossed again?
[[WMG: Petey has or is building a second Tagon's Toughs.]]
* Think about it: Tagon's Toughs are too useful to the Fleetmind for Petey to just let them go. And we have at least four persons at large that were once Toughs: General Karl Tagon, to command; Timeclone!Kevyn, Resident Mad Scientist; John Der Trihs, acknowledged master tactician; Shep, grunt and founding member. Plus, Doythaban could still be out there (remember the ancient Bene Gesserit axiom: they're not dead until you've seen the body, and even then, don't be too sure.) This implies, of course, at some point the twain shall meet, and likely recombine.
** [[spoiler:Since the next major plot arc apparently will revolve around Petey's proxy investigation of the abduction (possibly murder) of Timeclone!Kevyn and General Karl Tagon, this might be coming closer to realization.]]
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[[WMG: Petey has or is building a second Tagon's Toughs.]]
* Think about it: Tagon's Toughs are too useful towas only different in the Fleetmind for Petey to just let them go. And we have at least four persons at large that were once Toughs: General Karl Tagon, to command; Timeclone!Kevyn, Resident Mad Scientist; John Der Trihs, acknowledged master tactician; Shep, grunt and founding member. Plus, Doythaban could case of Kevyn, as his time clone still be out there (remember had the ancient Bene Gesserit axiom: they're not dead until you've seen the body, and even then, don't be too sure.) This implies, of course, at some point the twain shall meet, and likely recombine.
** [[spoiler:Since the next major plot arc apparently will revolve around Petey's proxy investigation of the abduction (possibly murder) of Timeclone!Kevyn and General Karl Tagon, this might be coming closer to realization.]]
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correct memories.
*** Nope. He can fully restore previous memories.
**** So that'd make it double-Jossed? Jossed and Jossed again?
[[WMG: Petey has or is building a second Tagon's Toughs.]]
* Think about it: Tagon's Toughs are too useful to
** [[spoiler:Since the next major plot arc apparently will revolve around Petey's proxy investigation of the abduction (possibly murder) of Timeclone!Kevyn and General Karl Tagon, this might be coming closer to realization.]]
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[[WMG:The current arc will end with the Toughs wanted... for bigamy.]]
* According to WordOfGod, their (actual, forgotten) marriage is likely on record. Precedent set by gate-clones will have expanded the definition of "bigamy" to include two marriages to the same person, which will get them banned from taking UNS contracts again.
** This [[SocietyMarchesOn presumes]] that in the intervening thousand years that there hasn't been some form of legal recognition for polygamous relationships, even if its only been precipitated by the Gate-Clone issue. It also runs into the same problems that the Tough's once faced in an alternate timeline. Getting proper ID from the Gav's.
* According to WordOfGod, their (actual, forgotten) marriage is likely on record. Precedent set by gate-clones will have expanded the definition of "bigamy" to include two marriages to the same person, which will get them banned from taking UNS contracts again.
** This [[SocietyMarchesOn presumes]] that in the intervening thousand years that there hasn't been some form of legal recognition for polygamous relationships, even if its only been precipitated by the Gate-Clone issue. It also runs into the same problems that the Tough's once faced in an alternate timeline. Getting proper ID from the Gav's.
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* Although Para is working for the UNS, there are multiple factions within the UNS, and the faction she's working for is opposed to the one the Toughs are fighting. "The enemy of my enemy" and all that.
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** Unlikely. They both seem smart enough to know that a galaxy-wide war between AIs could only have one conceivable outcome: the beginning of the reign of Empress Para Ventura.
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* Alternately, there could turn out to be ''fewer'' than 70 maxims, inverting the original joke. The highest-numbered rule revealed in canon is #37.
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[[WMG: There are far more than 70 Maxims]]
* Part of the original joke prior to the Franklin Covey–induced retcon was that although the book was called the "7 H*bits" there were clearly far more than 7 rules included. Having more than 70 maxims would maintain the original joke.
* If the author continues to release Maxim-themed calendars, and stops at 70, this would leave two blank pages in the 2017 calendar. Being famous for planning ahead, I'm sure that this is something that has crossed Howard's mind at some point, and having more than 70 maxims would be one possible work-around.
* Part of the original joke prior to the Franklin Covey–induced retcon was that although the book was called the "7 H*bits" there were clearly far more than 7 rules included. Having more than 70 maxims would maintain the original joke.
* If the author continues to release Maxim-themed calendars, and stops at 70, this would leave two blank pages in the 2017 calendar. Being famous for planning ahead, I'm sure that this is something that has crossed Howard's mind at some point, and having more than 70 maxims would be one possible work-around.
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*** And the Chekhov's Gun has since been fired. Of course, there's nothing to say it isn't actually a ChekhovsBoomerang...
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