Sometimes you have to stand up for what is right, and sometimes you simply must say when someone is wrong. Because sometimes there is no one else who will do it. You will earn enemies this way, and some of them will make you pay for what you say and do. But I say it is good to have enemies. I say you can measure a person by his or her enemies. Having them means you stood up for something, sometime, in your life. And maybe, just maybe, you helped make your world a better place.
Killing off the whole gang in the first episode of a new season would have been bad form for Twilight’s creative team. It is therefore not a surprise that they did not cooperate with Solo. What surprised the viewers was that they did not escape him during the firefight that ran through the physical and electronic streets of Kansas City. Twilight trapped him. Dixie captured him. And in a mere forty minutes of airtime the Big Bad of an entire season became their prisoner. The show ended with Solo leaning back in a chair as he told Twilight that she was going to need his help if she truly wanted to stop his boss. While a bit more dramatic than the real life story of how Solo joined our side, it at least has a passing resemblance to reality.
Pre-Contact warships used a mix of various forms of lasers, projectile weapons, and rockets as their primary armaments. Most lasers did very minimal damage compared to modern versions but were very accurate. Heat shielding was cheap, and therefore warships could easily armor themselves against most laser attacks. Where lasers excelled at was at burning out incoming projectiles and rockets that carried minimal or no armor. Almost every warship carried some anti-ship lasers for after other weapons breached the armor though. Few things can kill an enemy faster than setting them on fire in space after all. Oxygen runs out amazingly quickly.
People sometimes ask me how I decide what to do when time is tight. The simple answer is that I usually don’t. Decide at least. The complicated answer is a bit more…well…complicated. There is right and there is wrong. I know it’s not always popular to say that. There are so many people who want to say that everything is relative now, that no one has the standing to say someone else is wrong. I disagree. There is right and wrong. There is good and evil. And if we do not stand for good, we allow evil to flourish. I don’t want that happening on my watch, and so I act.
Twilight season three started with a fade from black to a man walking back and forth in a small room, footsteps echoing off the walls. He spoke unintelligible words with pauses to show he was having a conversation. Finally he nodded, turned towards the camera, and stepped forward to open a door. The camera panned back to show Solo smiling at Twilight, Dixie, and the rest of the gang, all captives to the Rogue AI. All he said before the opening credits rolled was “Good news. My boss just told me to kill you quick. No time for torture or all that useless begging. So who wants to be our first volunteer?”
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