<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=34960.msg1820638#msg1820638">Quote from: Doktor Sleepless on April 23, 2009, 10:41:37 am</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Awesome, XPs for graphic design!!!</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I give XP for anything which helps the story.  Remember, it was Gilbert and Sullivan -- the Monty Python of the 19th Century -- who talked about "corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."  And, yes, I am awesome.<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Could it be that the British Empire is an utopia, but there's a secret military cabal inside of it trying to corrupt it? And that's what he fights against?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Anything's possible (at least if you subscribe to the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation)), and the question is why he would be outside the military rather than within it.<br/><br/>I still recommend the idea of him being a privateer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer) with a letter of marque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque) from H. M. government (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RepublicOfMarySue).  That's very appropriate for a libertarian society (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySuetopia), btw.<br/><br/>"Man, licensed to hunt gophers -- by the government -- of the United Nations."  -----Carl Spackler,<em>Caddyshack</em>(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Caddyshack)