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* Zig-Zagged, because [[https://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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* Zig-Zagged, because [[https://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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* Given their methods, Admiral Emm and her subordinates could kidnap and forcibly brainwash one of the Gavs. And it's O'''is'''ri, for Petey's sake! Pronounced like 'oyster', just in Old Icelandic.
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* [[spoiler: ZigZagged. Tagon '''did''' die, but his brain was backed up forty minutes before his death. It takes a few weeks to arrange for a new body to be grown, we are currently (2017-01-04) seeing what pieces moved and where.]]
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* [[spoiler: ZigZagged. Tagon '''did''' die, but his brain was backed up forty minutes before his death. It takes a few weeks to arrange for a new body to be grown, we are currently (2017-01-04) seeing what pieces moved and where.]]]]
[[WMG: Not all Pa'anuri are sociopathic killer machines]]
The one Toughs encounter at Andromeda station is actually scared of 'barrys' and simply wants to run away, but is bossed by it's higher-ups. Later it'll turn out most of them aren't malicious and quite able to settle things diplomatically, even finding some way to allow teraport (their own barionic forces use it freely, after all), and whole war is initiated and prolonged by a relatively small faction, who use it to keep the rest of their population in fear of barrys and subservient to them, while engaging in terrorism and shooting messengers on purpose. Well, you know, just like some barionic individuals that Petey was trying to tame, before his arms were tied by that war.
[[WMG: Not all Pa'anuri are sociopathic killer machines]]
The one Toughs encounter at Andromeda station is actually scared of 'barrys' and simply wants to run away, but is bossed by it's higher-ups. Later it'll turn out most of them aren't malicious and quite able to settle things diplomatically, even finding some way to allow teraport (their own barionic forces use it freely, after all), and whole war is initiated and prolonged by a relatively small faction, who use it to keep the rest of their population in fear of barrys and subservient to them, while engaging in terrorism and shooting messengers on purpose. Well, you know, just like some barionic individuals that Petey was trying to tame, before his arms were tied by that war.
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** Confirmed, in a way. The Kaff Tagon and Alexia Murtaugh in the cyberspace hold of the ''Pursuing Dinosaurs'' now seem to be engaged in some kind of long term romantic or sexual relationship. However, the Tagon and Murtaugh who [[spoiler:until recently]] remained in their home galaxy haven't done the same (presumably because, while compatible, they haven't yet spent the necessary "processing cycles" to form such a relationship—whereas the extragalactic Tagon and Murtaugh have been thinking much faster in cyberspace to prepare for their meeting with the dinosaur worldship).
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* All Maxims are published now, Quotes has a copy.
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* More or less confirmed: [[spoiler: Schuul are planning on overthrowing Earthian government]].
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** Confirmed in general, jossed in details: Pandora's box is a life-preservation and logevity treatment based on that cryokit. Breya plays Pandora, deciding whether to make this information public and technology itself available to masses now, while Haban is unrelated and mostly offers moral support.
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** Confirmed in general, jossed in details: Pandora's box is a life-preservation and logevity treatment based on that cryokit. Breya plays Pandora, deciding whether to make this information public and technology itself available to masses now, while Haban is unrelated and mostly offers moral and fire support.
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** Confirmed in general, jossed in details: Pandora's box is a life-preservation and logevity treatment based on that cryokit. Breya plays Pandora, deciding whether to make this information public and technology itself available to masses now, while Haban is unrelated and mostly offers moral support.
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* [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010617.html com/2001-06-17 It was briefly mentioned that his corpse was missing bits when Doythaban recovered it.]] And there had to be some way that he uploaded his memories into the magic cryokit.
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** If it was this arc, almost certainly Jossed by [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-07-24 the 7/24 update]].
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** If it was this arc, almost certainly Jossed by [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-07-24 the 7/24 update]].
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* Or rather an ancestor. (Para is around [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-21 eighteen]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-10-01 years]] old, and the scale was mentioned [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-13 many years ago]].)
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* Or rather an ancestor. (Para is around [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-21 eighteen]] [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-10-01 years]] old, and the scale was mentioned [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-13 many years ago]].)
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Max Haluska's favorite speech code is the "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-06-12 Aunt Amy Uncle Bob]]" code, which was lampshaded (for lack of a better term) by Kathryn. When he tries it again, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-12 here]], Para responds "No relation", [[spoiler: "relation" being one of the signal words. When Max [[WhamLine tries to out her]], Bristlecone goobers him and she says "And bob's your uncle."]]
* This would also explain [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 the behavior of the Morokweng ship-bot]] -- [[spoiler:the exchange was scripted so as to make hiring Para appeal to Tagon's mercenary instincts]].
* More confirmation: Max Haluska [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-09 suborned Tarfeather]] with nanites hidden in a tooth. Later, [[spoiler:Para comes up [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-20 short one tooth.]] She probably used the same trick to suborn Bristlecone, albeit with better nanites that wouldn't wipe their personality.]]
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-23 Para's "friend"]] who had the pull to grant citizenship to the Tarnation [[spoiler:probably just so happens to be [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-01-31 Admiral Emm.]]]]
* This would also explain [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 the behavior of the Morokweng ship-bot]] -- [[spoiler:the exchange was scripted so as to make hiring Para appeal to Tagon's mercenary instincts]].
* More confirmation: Max Haluska [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-09 suborned Tarfeather]] with nanites hidden in a tooth. Later, [[spoiler:Para comes up [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-20 short one tooth.]] She probably used the same trick to suborn Bristlecone, albeit with better nanites that wouldn't wipe their personality.]]
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-23 Para's "friend"]] who had the pull to grant citizenship to the Tarnation [[spoiler:probably just so happens to be [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-01-31 Admiral Emm.]]]]
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Max Haluska's favorite speech code is the "[[http://www."[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-06-12 Aunt Amy Uncle Bob]]" code, which was lampshaded (for lack of a better term) by Kathryn. When he tries it again, [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-12 here]], Para responds "No relation", [[spoiler: "relation" being one of the signal words. When Max [[WhamLine tries to out her]], Bristlecone goobers him and she says "And bob's your uncle."]]
* This would also explain[[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 the behavior of the Morokweng ship-bot]] -- [[spoiler:the exchange was scripted so as to make hiring Para appeal to Tagon's mercenary instincts]].
* More confirmation: Max Haluska[[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-09 suborned Tarfeather]] with nanites hidden in a tooth. Later, [[spoiler:Para comes up [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-20 short one tooth.]] She probably used the same trick to suborn Bristlecone, albeit with better nanites that wouldn't wipe their personality.]]
*[[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-23 Para's "friend"]] who had the pull to grant citizenship to the Tarnation [[spoiler:probably just so happens to be [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-01-31 Admiral Emm.]]]]
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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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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.([[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-01-22 last panel]]) - eleven months later... well, just read the [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-02 fifth panel]].
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* 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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* Doesn't one of the INT-AFF-INT officers in [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-29 this strip]] look familiar?
* Zig-Zagged, because[[http://www.[[https://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.
* Zig-Zagged, because
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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 come up a few times. Firstly, [[http://www.[[https://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.[[https://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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*** The only time I can recall a reference to other inhabited parts of the Celeschul system was when Petey bombarded [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-22 Celeschul, Elltoo, and Ellfive]], and previously in that arc [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-02-06 Elltoo]] was shown to be a space habitat so presumably Ellfive is as well.
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*** The only time I can recall a reference to other inhabited parts of the Celeschul system was when Petey bombarded [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-22 Celeschul, Elltoo, and Ellfive]], and previously in that arc [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-02-06 Elltoo]] was shown to be a space habitat so presumably Ellfive is as well.
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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.
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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.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-03 it looked right]], then [[http://www.[[https://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.
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* There have been an increasing number of moments in this storyline [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-02-11 like this]] where Mako has made unguarded statements -- statements that are detrimental to her guise as [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-06-27 a member of the Jurisindependent Security Covenant]] -- suggesting that she (or he, possibly) is unhappy with her/his life. And, importantly, the current situation is such a clusterstrophe that Mako might ''actually'' be able to maneuver into a situation where Kowalski's handlers don't kill her/him off. (Or escape into Petey space, either one.)
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* There have been an increasing number of moments in this storyline [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-02-11 like this]] where Mako has made unguarded statements -- statements that are detrimental to her guise as [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-06-27 a member of the Jurisindependent Security Covenant]] -- suggesting that she (or he, possibly) is unhappy with her/his life. And, importantly, the current situation is such a clusterstrophe that Mako might ''actually'' be able to maneuver into a situation where Kowalski's handlers don't kill her/him off. (Or escape into Petey space, either one.)
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* Book 18 ("Mandatory Failure") has had both Petey AND Lota [[spoiler:targeted by Chinook]], and it looks like war; they possibly go to war ''on the same side''.
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* [[spoiler: ZigZagged. Tagon '''did''' die, but his brain was backed up forty minutes before his death. It takes a few weeks to arrange for a new body to be grown, we are currently (2017-01-04) seeing what pieces moved and where.]]
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He signed one of his job applications [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune "God-emperor Pi the first"]], and StarWars has done the whole [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy "space habitat is really a hyperspace death ray"]] thing.
* StarWars has done it [[OlderThanTheyThink more than]] [[ANewHope once]].
* StarWars has done it [[OlderThanTheyThink more than]] [[ANewHope once]].
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He signed one of his job applications [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune "God-emperor Pi the first"]], and StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' has done the whole [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy "space habitat is really a hyperspace death ray"]] thing.
*StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' has done it [[OlderThanTheyThink more than]] [[ANewHope [[Film/ANewHope once]].
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*[[spoiler: ZigZagged. Tagon '''did''' die, but his brain was backed up forty minutes before his death. It takes a few weeks to arrange for a new body to be grown, we are currently (2017-01-04) seeing what pieces moved and where.]]
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[[WMG:[[spoiler: Tagon isn't dead after trying to blow himself up to defeat the Essperin.]]]]
[[spoiler: Petey ''was'' able to pull him out in time, but is letting everyone ''think'' he died to get Schlock motivated, as well as start a few pieces on the board moving where he needs them with a minimum of direct intervention on his part.]]
[[spoiler: Petey ''was'' able to pull him out in time, but is letting everyone ''think'' he died to get Schlock motivated, as well as start a few pieces on the board moving where he needs them with a minimum of direct intervention on his part.]]
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* Fairly Jossed. It would take a massive shift for her to become an archenemy now.
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** More seriously, they know that a war between them will wind in the inevitable victory of Dark Matter.
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** Jossed; she pulls a HeroicSacrifice in a later strip.
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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.
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* There have been an increasing number of moments in this storyline [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-02-11 like this]] where Mako has made unguarded statements -- statements that are detrimental to her guise as [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-06-27 a member of the Jurisindependent Security Covenant]] -- suggesting that she (or he, possibly) is unhappy with her/his life. And, importantly, the current situation is such a clusterstrophe that Mako might ''actually'' be able to maneuver into a situation where Kowalski's handlers don't kill her/him off. (Or escape into Petey space, either one.)
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[[WMG: Lota is planning to save the Credomar populace from a ticking bomb.]]
* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, [[WMG:Petey's apparent abandonment of the Toughs was {{Just As Planned}}]]
* The Toughs' well known association with the Fleetmind was drawing too much attention from the UNS, and Petey is rather fond of them. He needed a way to keep them safe while he didn't need them, and appearing to sacrifice them to UNS control was the best way to do it. Since he's capable of messing around with a Battleplate's AI, as well as providing the technical material for the nanite plans, he probably hid a switch in the false memories of Tagon's crew to restore their real memories.
** {{Jossed}}, he said he can't restore their memories, just flag false ones. It was only different in the case of Kevyn, as Petey had secretly copied all of Kevyn's memories at the end of Book 8 (circa [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-05-14 the 2007-05-14 strip]]).
the people will be safely out of the way.
** And this one has officially [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091219.html been confirmed]]!
[[WMG: Why did Tag not come back online? Petey stole him.]]
* I am probably getting part of how AI works in the Schlockverse wrong, but bear with me. Petey and Tag got along very well the few times they encountered each other, and the latter even managed to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060806.html spot Petey's meddling]] where most everyone else couldn't. I don't see Petey wanting to watch such a brilliant mind to go to waste, so if it was possible he might have spirited Tag away to let him join the Fleetmind.
** Tag isn't gone - Tagii was grown from Tag's gestalt. Para could have rebuilt Tag as he was, but he would still have an open exploit (force Tag to act independent of Tagon's orders, break the AI in the middle of combat, bad guys win.) All of Tag is still there, and I suspect that Tagii will have all of the quirky humor and tactical genius Tag had - we just haven't seen Tagii in action yet.
*** Given her one-off comment to Tagon along the lines of 'it's a pleasure to meet you from a new perspective', I'm starting to think this may be the case as well. Would be nice if we could get some WordOfGod on this, though . . .
**** 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..."
* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, [[WMG:Petey's apparent abandonment of the Toughs was {{Just As Planned}}]]
* The Toughs' well known association with the Fleetmind was drawing too much attention from the UNS, and Petey is rather fond of them. He needed a way to keep them safe while he didn't need them, and appearing to sacrifice them to UNS control was the best way to do it. Since he's capable of messing around with a Battleplate's AI, as well as providing the technical material for the nanite plans, he probably hid a switch in the false memories of Tagon's crew to restore their real memories.
** {{Jossed}}, he said he can't restore their memories, just flag false ones. It was only different in the case of Kevyn, as Petey had secretly copied all of Kevyn's memories at the end of Book 8 (circa [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-05-14 the 2007-05-14 strip]]).
the people will be safely out of the way.
** And this one has officially [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091219.html been confirmed]]!
[[WMG: Why did Tag not come back online? Petey stole him.]]
* I am probably getting part of how AI works in the Schlockverse wrong, but bear with me. Petey and Tag got along very well the few times they encountered each other, and the latter even managed to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060806.html spot Petey's meddling]] where most everyone else couldn't. I don't see Petey wanting to watch such a brilliant mind to go to waste, so if it was possible he might have spirited Tag away to let him join the Fleetmind.
** Tag isn't gone - Tagii was grown from Tag's gestalt. Para could have rebuilt Tag as he was, but he would still have an open exploit (force Tag to act independent of Tagon's orders, break the AI in the middle of combat, bad guys win.) All of Tag is still there, and I suspect that Tagii will have all of the quirky humor and tactical genius Tag had - we just haven't seen Tagii in action yet.
*** Given her one-off comment to Tagon along the lines of 'it's a pleasure to meet you from a new perspective', I'm starting to think this may be the case as well. Would be nice if we could get some WordOfGod on this, though . . .
**** 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 weird zombie things that got made out of Gavs are [[DoctorWho Martian Water Zombies]]]]
* 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).
* 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: Lota is planning to save the Credomar populace from a ticking bomb.]]
* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, [[WMG:Petey's apparent abandonment of the Toughs was {{Just As Planned}}]]
* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, [[WMG:Petey's apparent abandonment of the Toughs was {{Just As Planned}}]]
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* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, the people will be safely out of the way.
* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun, the people will be safely out of the way.
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* Lota is not planning to destroy the place or take it over by moving everyone else out. Lota has discovered that there is an imminent danger in staying on Credomar, ''but'' cannot just tell the people to evacuate for some reason. Or possibly they'd be in more danger if they ran now. But once Lota has the teraport stuff installed, it'll be a snap to move them all off to a secure location. When Credomar blows up or gets taken over by baddies or gets turned into a superweapon or gets pushed into the sun,
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[[WMG:"Pandora's box" is the magic cryokit.]]
* Breya doesn't get to play Pandora, she has to bring Pandora. Pandora could be Haban, for his experience with both the cryokit and the old doctor.
* Breya doesn't get to play Pandora, she has to bring Pandora. Pandora could be Haban, for his experience with both the cryokit and the old doctor.
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** It's gone higher since.
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** Confirmed
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* As of book 15, they do have the same rank...
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** The old doctor coming back? That would... actually be plausible, plus a huge mindfuck.
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** Depending on which arc this was about, could is have been a reference to Karl Tagon's wife? Because we met her...
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*** The only time I can recall a reference to other inhabited parts of the Celeschul system was when Petey bombarded [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-22 Celeschul, Elltoo, and Ellfive]], and previously in that arc [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-02-06 Elltoo]] was shown to be a space habitat so presumably Ellfive is as well.
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** I always understood the Terraforming Wars to be specific to the Celeschul system, which has at least three habitable planets, and at least two indigenous species. Then the Humans came along and settled one planet (the planet with the aquatic aborigines), but didn't hit it off too well with the land-dwelling aborigines from the other inhabited planet (Borthwogs, IIRC). The third habitable planet was terraformed by Human settlers, and contested by the Borthwogs, hence the Terraforming Wars. Or something...
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** Int-Aff-Int were clearly a separate faction from those based on Morokweng, and the command staff of the Morokweng are clearly the ones who planted the genocidal nanotech.
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* Para, though working with at least one UNS faction, will end up liking the Toughs enough that she colors her reports and only reports enough information to keep her UNS employers from guessing her new allegiance.
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** Para's friend can't be [[spoiler:Admiral Emm]] - Int-Aff-Int had an agent on Morokweng, and when he was offered the a promotion to intelligence chief, Int-Aff-Int were pleased he turned it down, as it would increase his risk of exposure.
* Para, though working with at least one UNS faction, will end up liking the Toughs enough that shecolors colours her reports and only reports enough information to keep her UNS employers from guessing her new allegiance.
* Para, though working with at least one UNS faction, will end up liking the Toughs enough that she
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* It was important enough to be a Pearl Harbour type target in the Terraforming wars, so its coming back up again is likely.
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* Since the Pa'anuri had probably been there from the beginning it had probably been the plan all along. Also, they needed it to be up and running so that they could use it, because as with a nuke, you need the system to go critical (in this case self-sustaining) before it can actually explode.
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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 out, 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.\\
** 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.
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.\\
** 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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* 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 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 out, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\\
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