The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story - Chpt 2
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:50 am
drew. here's your thread for chapter 2 driver. have at it! ![Big Grin :biggrin:](./images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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So there was more than meets the eye in chapter one; and its not just the reader (or the author) who know about it....these men know how to listen, how to ask questions, how to interpret what they saw-and when to go somehere else for information.
Ah, body language speaks volumes, even when the person cannot....the men in the corners noticed the way her whole body seemed to twist away even when she sat close beside him
The first glimpse we catch of the Zone Implant-the central article to the entire series.And they observed that he kept one hand constantly fisted in the pocket of his grease stained shipsuit.
It sounds like Oil now-a-days. With the resource (oil today-ore tomorrow) there is no way for society to continue. Here we also hear of the United Mining Companies for the first time; the first thing I though of, was OPEC; holding controll over oil producing countries...so here is a good indicator, that the UMC is NOT one of the good guys.Back on Earth, civilization and political power required ore. Withour the resources which stations like Com-Mine supplied, no government could maintain itself in office. By some standards, the United MIning Companies, Com-Mine's corperate founder, was the only effective governemnt in human space.
NExt, is the first example of an Ancillary Documentation that so fill the GAPs in the remaining novels...though this is much shorter than those Chapterettes, one can't help but wonder if this explanation gave the author the idea.Zone IMplants were illegal, of course. They were so illegal that unauthorized use carried the death penalty.
And for that reason, most ships keep them on board to protect the rest of the crew from what may come about.
- psycotic killing
null wave transmitters
raving bullimics
gleefull self flagellance
pedophilia
pill-junkie
So it was surmised that Angus was probebly as rangy as the rest of them, and took this opportunity.What the men in the bars and sleeps talked about most often however, was Women. Women were rare on mining staions. Single women were even rarer. And avalable women were so rare that they were orihibitively expensice...men with nothing beter to do rarely thought about anything else...Gorgeous women. Women with zone implants, who did everything a drink fuddled mind could imagine. Women like Morn Hyland
OKay, we get it. But why is like that? I guess we'll have to wait again for the Real Story.He hated everything. He hated everybody...HIs life was strewn with hate...now his hate was fixed on her, and he disired the thing he hated. Capable of any degradation his filthy appetires could conceive-and able to be hurt by it.
That paragraph is a VERY IMPORTANT fact to the rest of the story. Nick SHOULD have figured out about the Zone IMplant...other in the bar had, yet he was too self absorbed to think about it. And it led to his ultimate doom.On this subject, Nick Succorso kept his opinion to himself. Perhaps his attraction to Morn was so strong that he didn't think about anything else.
I like this next line too, kind of some foreshadowing to the rest of the series:Captain Succorso, hand over your computer's datacore....
No, he said again. Now his grin didn't look so amiable. I'm not required to let you look at my datacore unless you have evidence of a crime. That's the law. Has there been a crime?
The story goes on to talk about how obvious his lust over Morn was. We get the impression that if Nick is a pirate, h'e not like Angus, he's glamorous; ready to rescue the distressed maiden....and spending money as if he had a UMC credit line....
That was lucky..Nick and Angus both raced out, barely making it awa from ComMine before they opened fire.The incomming supply ship fromEarth was in trouble....Apparently one of the crew had been taken by gap sicness...A full standad year's worth of food was floating out there ripe to be rescued, salvaged, or guttet.
It looked as though everything worked itself out, except for two things:...he and Morn began to scuffle: he was apparently trying to hold her back. Nevertheless she managed to break away just as security closed in on him. And then she and nick were gone, they dissapeared as effectively as a blink crossing.
I like this chapter-largly because of its non-importance.The crown at Mallorys would have found the real story much harder to live with.
I think the point is to flesh it out, giving us much more information (like you said, much of it is similar to the Ancillary Doc). And to tell it at a different level of awareness. But of course it still isn't the real story... the inside story. But it's much closer. This is also setting the stage for the concept of many simultaneous and varied viewpoints that we're going to get for the next 2000 pagesChapter one tells the thumbnail version of the story; chapter's three to eighteen tell the Real Story, why do we need an almost accurate telling of the events?
This is important. On Com-Mine, women are objects; they don't have their own desires, their own plans.What the men in the bars and sleeps talked about most often however, was Women. Women were rare on mining staions. Single women were even rarer. And avalable women were so rare that they were prohibitively expensive.
What does the Com in Com-Mine stand for? And in what way is it a Mine?
Holt: "You are mine."...the United Mining Companies, Com-Mine's corporate founder...
Exactly. It's being told backwards. A technique that gets largely left out in the subsequent books, but certainly works in this one.Wayfriend wrote:What makes RS interesting is that we know how it ends, we just don't know how we get there.
As some have said, this is simply peeling away another layer. That in itself accomplishes nothing except showing that there ARE layers, i.e. that the story is complex. And really, if there were only two layers, then the whole idea of there being a Real Story (one which is missed by nearly everyone) would be lame. Only the most inattentive among us could fail to see past the surface, on to the very next layer. So there has to be several layers, merely for this Real Story idea to be a plausible narrative device.“Chapter one tells the thumbnail version of the story; chapter's three to eighteen tell the Real Story, why do we need an almost accurate telling of the events?”