Seamus Harper, Beka Valentine, Captain Dylan Hunt, Colonel Yau(Mikela Jay), President Ulysses Chandos(Malcolm Stewart) and Andromeda
S1.E10: All Great Neptune's Ocean
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"Democracy may be only a few
steps removed from Anarchy,
but at least it's not as loud."
Crowned in Starlight
Than Hegemon, C.Y. 9843
"Here is the price of freedom:
Your every drop of courage,
ounce of pain, pint of blood.
Paid in advance."
Sebastian Lee,
"The Rising Tide"
AFC 271
Harper: It's not like he doesn't kill people. I mean, hell, it used to be his day job.
Beka: Please. I could swat that fishing fleet of theirs in the Maru.
Harper: Yeah, and you'd eat them for lunch. Now there's a thought. Do fish people eat fish? Or is it like humans eating monkeys or apes?
Captain Hunt: The Castalians are humans. Genetically engineered to breathe water, but still human. Besides, humans do eat monkeys. Humans eat other humans. As a species, we are really quite unpleasant. So, Mister Harper, you care to update us on the investigation?
Harper: Okay. Weaponry 101. The Force Lance is the High Guard's favorite toy. Retracted, it can be used as a light source or a scanner or whatever else comes to mind, and deployed, it makes a nifty quarterstaff or a limbo bar. Now, in either configuration, it can fire tiny attack drones. Effectors. Basically, smart bullets from a smart gun. This force lance has recently fired two such effectors. Timestamp matches President Lee's death. However, according to the internal sensors, the effectors were fired at a low velocity straight down toward the deck. As they slowed to zero, they each acquired the target and then attacked on their own power, like a couple of bats out of H E double hockey sticks.
Captain Hunt: Nietzscheans don't deliberately injure themselves. It's anti-survival. You know, none of this makes any sense.
Harper: Not Tyr. Overbearing, self-righteous, vain, vicious, brutal, way too serious, and a little big, yeah. But eccentric? No.
Beka: Okay, here's what we've got on Colonel Ironpants. It was her job to protect the President. Well done. She also had the specs on Tyr's weapon by her own request, and she's awfully eager to hang Tyr.
Captain Hunt: So we've got method and opportunity, but not motive. She adored Lee. He freed her people.
Beka: Not in time to save her family. They were Nietzschean slaves.
Rommie: The labourers who died on the habitat.
Beka: You don't brand your employees, you brand your slaves. If Tyr's right about the Volsung Pride, if Lee deliberately ordered its destruction, then he also ordered the deaths of the forced labourers, and Yau's family.
Captain Hunt: Revenge.
Beka: Always a popular dish.
Captain Hunt: Add another name to the list. Which makes three.
Beka: Tyr, Yau, and who else?
Captain Hunt: Revenge is always a solid motive for murder, but there's another old standard we've been overlooking. Power.
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