The presidency has no value in and of itself. It represents power in the same way that a puddle represents a storm. The President is, if clever, corrupt and, if stupid, manipulated. I have never sought high office for myself. True power is in the hands of the one who advises the President. Why place a target on my back for an illusion of power ( Read more... )

Servalan is very cautious.  She believes that she knows how great a threat I offer and weighs that carefully against my value to her.  She would kill me with neither scruple nor regret if her calculation of that equation encouraged her to.  It might be suspected that I should be troubled by that, but I really wouldn't be very good at my job if I ( Read more... )

Our esteemed (and frighteningly attractive) Presi... Supreme Commander has a journal at http://servalan-rules.livejournal.com/ I confess, I am finding it quite fascinating.

How glad I am that I was not directly involved in the Avalon debacle. Servalan's fury when it all fell apart would have been far less attractive had it been directed at me and not at Travis ( Read more... )

There are many misconceptions about my occupation, and long may that continue. However, it is, perhaps, important that I state, if only for my own benefit, that it is not my job to turn the minds of men against their own interest whilst allowing them to think they serve only themselves. No, that is not my job, but my vocation, my delight ( Read more... )

Our Supreme Commander has some interesting staff officers. It's quite obvious which have been chosen for considerations of a non-military kind. It would be easy to mistake her for a sex-obsessed fool, but sex is, like everything else, merely a weapon to her. Those officers who vie for her affections are both more loyal and more vulnerable than ( Read more... )

Servalan has a great deal of faith in a Space Commander called Travis. She believes that his personal hatred of Blake will motivate him to capture and kill him, but she overlooks the fact that Travis is sufficiently consumed with hatred to be, at times, blind to all other considerations. His judgement is not what it was. Nothing comes before his ( Read more... )

Jenna Stannis is fascinating. She is a free trader (another way to spell smuggler) who learnt to fly a ship under circumstances akin to those she faces now, chased often by our pursuit ships. Her talents are prodigious, as is her intelligence. Of all Blake's crew, she is the one who would be most able to survive alone and she knows it ( Read more... )

Cally is mysterious. We have very little information about the people of Auron. They are telepaths and reproduce by cloning and they have a tendency to avoid involvement in the politics of others. They are becoming increasingly isolationist, but Cally is clearly not of the same mind as the leaders of her people ( Read more... )

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