DeaconBlues wrote:
...Well, Chuck, all I can say is:
The Hybrid on Battlestar Galactica wrote:
All these things at once and many more, not because it wishes harm, but because it likes violent vibrations to change constantly. Then shall the maidens rejoice at the dance. Structural integrity of node cell restored; repressurizing. The children of the one reborn shall find their own country. Intruder swarmed like flame, like the whirlwind. Hope soaring to slaughter all their best against our hulls. Replace internal control accumulators 4 through 19. They'll start growing ripe on us pretty soon. Compartamentalize integrity conflicts with the obligation to provide access. FTL sync fault uncorrected. No ceremonies are necessary.
Then shall the maidens rejoice at the dance. Structural integrity of Node 7 restored; repressurizing. The children of the one reborn shall find their own country. End of line.
Reset. Track mode monitor malfunction traced. Recharge compressors; increase the output to 50%. Assume the relaxation like the photons. Diverse contact is inevitable leading to information bleed. FTL sync fault uncorrected. No ceremonies are necessary. Centrifugal force reacts to the rotating frame of reference. The obstinate toy soldier becomes pliant. The city devours the land; the people devour the city; ???.
Assume relaxation like the photons in the sample atmosphere is constant. Intruders swarmed like flame, like the whirlwind. Hope soaring to slaughter all their best against our hulls. All these things at once and many more, not because it wishes harm, but because it likes violent vibrations to change constantly. Reset. But you are a spark of God's fire! Core update complete; threat detection matrix enabled. The received dose is altered by the delayed gamma burst. Active. Execute. The children of the one reborn shall find their own country. End of line
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Thus will it come to pass: the dying leader will know the truth of the opera house; the missing Three will give you the Five who have come from the home of the Thirteenth. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line.

Exactly as I would have thought.
Now, if the missing Three give you the Five, there were originally Two who left the home of the Thirteenth to search for the missing Three, and Eight stayed (
someone had to do the laundry). So for a time the home of the Thirteenth was the home of the Tenth, and then of the Eighth, until all were found and all was well, and until it was discovered that Kara Thrace would lead them all to their death - so they would have been better off having been satisfied with being the home of the Twelfth, less a harbinger of death.
It would appear. I think.
Now let me ask you:
In my attempt to fly to the sun, I stood atop a ten foot platform, from which to leap and gain some soaring altitude. Standing at platform edge in fear, my wax wings melted - so that was as close as I ever got (prior to falling off).
So, was this a valiant attempt, or a dismal failure? Where does one draw the line in this distinction?
Had I attached wax wings to a Valiant and
driven off the platform,
... would my performance have been made more valiant?
(just for future reference)