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alexcatRecap and Discussion for Crusade – episode 8 – Patterns of the Soul
I have been writing Elementary and MCU fiction all day and am tired, need a shower and some food so this may be a bit short.
We open with General Thompson sending Gideon and the Excalibur to Theta 9 to pick up some people who supposedly may be infected with the plague. This idea rankles Gideon and well it should when we find out that Robert Black and his colonists are a group of Black Ops folks who believe that the Excalibur has come to kill them.
The other surprise is that Dureena finds some of her own race on Theta 9. They crashed there as they were being sent somewhere to work. Only 100 of them survived and now they are all of her race that survives at all.
Dr. Chambers got a sample of Black’s blood and the colonist do have the plague as do Dureena’s people.
Thompson orders the colonists sent back to earth and Gideon decides to poke around. He finds out that Black and his crew were in a program Bioweapons Division. He asks Sarah to check the garbage while she’s planetside and she finds food packets contaminated with the plague, so the colonists were infected by someone on purpose. Max tells Gideon the company that made the packets makes people disappear if they are crossed.
Tim, another colonist, takes Sarah hostage and runs away with a shuttle. Gideon talks to him and they hatch a plan.
Gideon contacts Thompson and tells him that the colonists blew up – their shuttle did with no one on it.
He leaves them all on the planet.
Dureena’s people only have a year before the plague kills them.
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Quotes:
Max to Gideon: Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That's where we're different. I just do what I'm told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we've acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, "It's not my fault."
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This is the episode that I think a lot of the series might have been about had it continued… what Earthforce had been doing before the Shadow War and how far reaching the conspiracy goes and how far they will go to cover it up.
Instead of questions, please feel free to comment in any way you want.
And here are a few screencaps:
It's shadows over Canada!!! (JMS said it's so)
I have been writing Elementary and MCU fiction all day and am tired, need a shower and some food so this may be a bit short.
We open with General Thompson sending Gideon and the Excalibur to Theta 9 to pick up some people who supposedly may be infected with the plague. This idea rankles Gideon and well it should when we find out that Robert Black and his colonists are a group of Black Ops folks who believe that the Excalibur has come to kill them.
The other surprise is that Dureena finds some of her own race on Theta 9. They crashed there as they were being sent somewhere to work. Only 100 of them survived and now they are all of her race that survives at all.
Dr. Chambers got a sample of Black’s blood and the colonist do have the plague as do Dureena’s people.
Thompson orders the colonists sent back to earth and Gideon decides to poke around. He finds out that Black and his crew were in a program Bioweapons Division. He asks Sarah to check the garbage while she’s planetside and she finds food packets contaminated with the plague, so the colonists were infected by someone on purpose. Max tells Gideon the company that made the packets makes people disappear if they are crossed.
Tim, another colonist, takes Sarah hostage and runs away with a shuttle. Gideon talks to him and they hatch a plan.
Gideon contacts Thompson and tells him that the colonists blew up – their shuttle did with no one on it.
He leaves them all on the planet.
Dureena’s people only have a year before the plague kills them.
*
Quotes:
Max to Gideon: Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That's where we're different. I just do what I'm told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we've acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, "It's not my fault."
*
This is the episode that I think a lot of the series might have been about had it continued… what Earthforce had been doing before the Shadow War and how far reaching the conspiracy goes and how far they will go to cover it up.
Instead of questions, please feel free to comment in any way you want.
And here are a few screencaps:
It's shadows over Canada!!! (JMS said it's so)
