Gap Quiz

[Cord Hurn]

Motherlode?

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Good one.

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[Sorus]

Lazy buggers these other folk huh?



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I know, I'm slacking. I'll try to participate more. It's good to see the thread active.

[Cord Hurn]

Good one.

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Well, we were on the subject of Holt's mother, anyway, so that made it easier!

[Cord Hurn]

This question might be more challenging:

According to what he told the GCES in that infamous video conference, why did Hashi decide not to revoke Milos Taverner's clearances and authorizations?

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Well, we were on the subject of Holt's mother, anyway, so that made it easier!

Hahaha, that must have been what made me think of it in the first place, although I never realised.

...why did Hashi decide not to revoke Milos Taverner's clearances and authorizations?

Uh, because it would tip him off that they were on to him?

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[Cord Hurn]

Lazy buggers these other folk huh?



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I know, I'm slacking. I'll try to participate more. It's good to see the thread active.

Just please remember that you can answer from memory or research, and neither method of getting the answer is forbidden by the rules. Also, if you get the answer right and are looking for a question to ask, this Gap Series forum and the Ancillary Documentation sub-forum are both fertile ground for finding questions to ask! So please, Sorus, jump right into this if you want!

[Cord Hurn]

...why did Hashi decide not to revoke Milos Taverner's clearances and authorizations?

Uh, because it would tip him off that they were on to him?

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No. Hashi's reasoning, as he explains it to the GCES, is even simpler than that.

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They might have been wrong?

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[Cord Hurn]

Not exactly. Actually, according to Hashi, it's what they DON'T have on Milos...

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No evidence on Milos?

(I really thought it had something to do with alerting him.)

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[Cord Hurn]

No evidence on Milos?

(I really thought it had something to do with alerting him.)

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Hmmm...well, it was part of it, I guess. But it's that Hashi explicitly states that he had no evidence against Milos that I was looking for, so you got it, Avatar!

"But how to go about learning the truth?" the DA director asked rhetorically. "That was the complex question. If I made my suspicions obvious to Deputy Chief Taverner--for example, by revoking his clearances and authorizations--he would certainly do his utmost to protect himself. Then I might never gain the information I desired. Therefore my best hope was to preserve the illusion that I had reqqed him because of his special knowledge of Captain Thermopyle. There was, after all, no reason why this should not be the truth.

"Indeed, where Captain Thermopyle was concerned, I was daily given reason to believe in Deputy Chief Taverner's honesty. My own interrogations were as unsuccessful as it is possible to imagine. Despite my most advanced techniques--within the limits of the law," Hashi added piously, "I gained nothing which Deputy Chief Taverner had not gained before me.

"Therefore what grounds did I have to treat Deputy Chief Taverner as a suspected illegal? Among the UMCP, we hold the principle sacred that a man is innocent until proven guilty." Hashi was starting to play his part too thickly, but Warden didn't interfere. "The more I interrogated Captain Thermopyle, the more my distrust of Deputy Chief Taverner evaporated.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I did not revoke his clearances and authorizations because I had no evidence against him. Until he released Captain Thermopyle and fled, I had no foundation for my suspicions.

Now Warden cut in. Impelled by the pain in his optic nerves, he asked roughly, "Does that help? You should be able to ask accurate questions now."

"Thank you, Director Lebwohl," said Len. "An admirably lucid account. Do I understand you to mean, then, that the 'error' you made reference to earlier was an error in judgement concerning Milos Taverner?"

"Just so, Mr. President," Hashi agreed placidly, as if he were at peace with the universe.

Yet another Gap Quiz question that I pulled out of Ancillary Documentation, from a chapter dissection I did just for fun over a year ago. But, now that I have looked at the quote again, I think I would have done better stating it as a question with two parts for answers!

Anyway, YAY, your turn, Avatar! You've earned it!!!

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What was the name of the GCES Head of Security?

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[Cord Hurn]

It wasn't Chief Mandich, was it?

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Damn, it was indeed. Or Mandlich maybe...but close enough. Your turn.

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[Cord Hurn]

Let's try this question on for size:
How does Sorus distract Nick so that she can shoot him?

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Uh...shouts "look over there!"?

(Ok, pretty sure that's not it...prepares to ram another ship?)

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[Cord Hurn]

Uh...shouts "look over there!"?

(Ok, pretty sure that's not it...prepares to ram another ship?)

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She doesn't distract Nick by preparing to ram another ship, BUT she does get Nick to look in another direction through something she says!

Roughly (meaning I'm not insisting on an exact quote, here), what does she say to make Nick look away from her?

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Wasn't Vestabule on the ship with her? Did she reference him?

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[Cord Hurn]

Sorus didn't reference Vestabule to Nick. However, there WAS another Amnion on board Soar's bridge when Nick confronted Sorus...