It’s amusing that the day after I posted my last tangent on Schlock Mercenary that Howard Tayler switched back to the “save the galaxy” storyline. I suppose I should have expected it. The story was at an excellent pause point and had gone on for a couple of weeks. It’s only natural that they’d switch over to the “main” storyline. I’m not disappointed though. The last week was perhaps a little slow, building up to this meeting of allies (though it did so most amusingly). We’ve also learned that this alliance is a shaky one at best – just about everyone here has been taking potshots at the others. The only thing holding this together is the need to save the galaxy (though that is a fairly big reason!).

The shunning of the Ob’enn by Petey makes sense. He comes up with some damn good reasons for it. But… I can’t help but think that Petey is also acting on his prejudices. The Ob’enn were responsible for the death of his original self (as well as the Post-Dated Check Loan), and since then he’s been focusing on a war to deny the Ob’enn the ability to expand their empire (at the expense of other races, but still!). And if the Ob’enn ships have the ability to go “claw to claw” with these “generators” that will be destroying the galaxy… shouldn’t they be included? Naturally things will never go “the easy way”. I fully expect our alliance, even if it sticks together, to prove inadequate to the task. In fact, once the action starts up we’ll no doubt go back to Tagon and crew… and maybe even save them.

Wouldn’t it be amusing if Tagon’s Toughs end up going in to do what an alliance among some of the biggest galactic powers were unable to do? Then again, that’s what mercenaries are for… As for the Ob’enn? Well, if they listened to their captains more than their generals, I half-suspect the galaxy would be safe from them. (Or whatever the rank of that green-shirted teddy bear is…) On a side-note, I absolutely love the fact that every one of Petey’s ships has the initials P.D. Cute touch, and a nice eye for detail, Howard.