Legions of Fire, Book I: The Long Night of Centauri Prime - Chapters 6-13

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for chapters 6-13 of Peter David's Legions of Fire, Book I: The Long Night of Centauri Prime. Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Next week, we'll discuss the rest of the book (Part II, chapters 14-22).

MOD NOTE: Since I'll be on my summer vacation for the next few weeks, I've set the posts to appear on schedule but probably won't monitoring the comm very actively, so if the discussion posts fail to appear on Sundays or there some other problems, please send me a PM.

P.S. babylon5_love could use some more contribuors.

Comments

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

I can easily see Cartagia as a Nero figure - very unpopular among the aristocracy, who don't see him as behaving 'properly' even before he turns out to be insane, but at the same time, his flamboyance and rejection of upper-class traditions endearing him to the common people - who, after all, aren't the ones being executed on a whim.

Hmm, now there's a fun idea for the direction Centauri facism/popular unrest could go in - revolts led by Pseudo-Cartagia figures. If nothing else, the suspicious nature of his death would certainly have led to conspiracy theories, and if he was popular, the idea that he wasn't really dead might flourish for a long time...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, a Cartagia equivalent of the False Neros who kept popping up would be brilliant. And, err. It's not like in this 'verse the idea of people coming back from the dead would be unheard of. Also: Cartagia made a deal, which Londo knows. Doesn't everyone who tells Morden what they want get it? So I could see Londo, upon hearing there are rumours about Returned Cartagia, first going "thanks for giving me the laugh of the day" and then "...." mentally.