On 20Jun2020 1932, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) wrote: > He always would've had to run but it should've been obvious in advance. > > No one really wants a crazy-ass mass murderer on the throne. And yet they were cool with it in the past, according to old CT works. > > But it fits neatly into the "everybody goes crazy. etc" narrative. > > And then there's the way he escaped. > > In one of the Challenges there was mention of the poor SDB commander > who got exiled to the boonies cuz' he failed to fire on Dullie's ship > as it prepared to jump. The commander, poor soul, apparently just > couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger till it was too late. OR, with really confusing reports coming in, wasn't sure what was up and didn't want to get court-martialed for firing on an Archduke's ship. Then Lucan shit-cans him anyway, because Lucan's an ass. > > Just way too many time where one side rolls 'snake eyes', repeatedly & > the other side gets 'boxcars'. This sort of thing happens in real life. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>