What the Frell did you do this time Erpman?!
Disclaimer: See chapter one
Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews. So for all those that didn't recognise the new crossover, here it is: Timothy Zahn's Conqueror's Trilogy. Which if you haven't read you should!!! It is one of my favourite series of books!! And they're just as good as his Star Wars books. Anyway, for those that haven't this chapter has a short rundown what happens it them, so here's the warning:
THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR TIMOTHY ZAHN'S CONQUEROR'S SAGA!!!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!
Rating: PG13 (if someone thinks otherwise please tell me)
Chapter 29One Big Happy Family?
Battlestar Galactica, same time as Crichton's contact with the Human Peacekeepers
"Thank you for accepting our invitation little brother," Athena said as she led Lee out of her Battlestar Galactica's docking bay.
"You're welcome, Major," Lee replied politely as he gazed around at the brightly lit corridors of the other Galactica in amazement. Despite the knowledge that this ship was hideously more advanced, its interior looked more primitive to his eye…not to mention all the brown leather these people were so fond of using.
"Now, now, little brother, I've told you to call me Athena several times yesterday," she spoke kindly to the astonished captain as she led him down a corridor and to the nearest lift. "As promised we'll start out on the bridge…there are several people on board who would love to make your acquaintance," she said with amusement in her voice.
Lee turned to Athena with surprise written on his face, "Really?"
"Yes really," Athena said in a miffed voice. "Did you think that you were the only ones that were curious about what the other side was like?"
"Uh well I hadn't thought about that…still trying to get used to this twist in my life," Lee remarked. He was still reeling with all the surprises that had arisen during Athena's tour of his Galactica.
Athena's eyes twinkled with good humour, "Yes well the surprises are only beginning…here comes the first one of your visit." She laughed lightly, gesturing at a tall broad Colonial Warrior that was heading their way.
As Lee watched, the man smiled at them and when he reached them, Athena pulled him into a hug and gave him a small kiss on the cheek. They both turned to face the ever-surprised Lee Adama. "Little brother I believe you've spoken to Boxey before?"
Captain Boxey extended his hand to Lee. "Captain, nice to finally meet you in person," he spoke in greeting.
Lee shook his hand. "Good to meet you too…you know Athena, well?" he asked wondering what their relationship was? She hadn't looked the type to go for a younger man.
Boxey smiled and opened his mouth to reply but Athena beat him to it. "Of course he does, he's my nephew…Apollo's step son, but still my favourite nephew," she said fondly.
Lee's jaw hit the floor so fast he almost dislocated it. He just stood there looking at the smug duo in front of him. Stepson?! The other Apollo had a stepson? And it was Boxey? The orphan Boomer picked up on Caprica?
Athena laughed at his reaction, and gently reached forward and closed his mouth. "You'll catch flies if you stay like that for long," she teased gently. "Besides the surprises aren't finished yet."
"They aren't?" Lee managed to ask dumbly.
In response, Athena only laughed again before taking a hold of his arm and started pulling him down the corridor as they continued their trek up to the bridge, with Boxey trailing them.
Lee spent the rest of the short trip numb with shock, barely noticing the curious and amused stares of the crew as the trio passed by them.
Eventually after a short walk and elevator ride, they reached the bridge. Lee was still stunned by the surprise, but a part of his mind did manage to take in the differences between this bridge and CIC of his Battlestar. Everything was so brightly lit and there was brown carpeting all over the place. The layout was different and he couldn't see what he understood be a DRADIS console anywhere. The most startling difference was the giant curved window at the relative front of the bridge.
They had barely gone two steps onto the bridge when they were stopped by an intimidating yet attractive older woman in the standard blue leather uniform and with a short blue cape who gave Lee a searching look.
"Ah, little brother I'd like to introduce you to Commander Sheba of the Pegasus," Athena introduced the woman that was giving Lee such a calculating look.
Training kicked in as Lee snapped to attention and saluted Sheba. "Ma'am, it's an honour to meet you," he said smartly in greeting.
Instead of returning the salute, the woman continued to gaze dispassionately at Lee before she slowly walked around in a circle around Lee, taking in all his dimensions.
Because of his training Lee, didn't move a muscle during the Commander's inspection, he'd been through similar situations with other superior officers back before the end of the Colonies. He wondered what exactly he'd done to annoy or upset this woman-especially considering they'd just met.
Sheba finished her inspection; she gave Lee a saucy smile before turning to Athena and saying in all seriousness. "Huh, you don't think Apollo would mind if I exchanged him for the younger model?"
Lee frowned in confusion as Athena, Boxey and various crewmembers that were in earshot suddenly burst into laughter.
He turned to Athena. "Uh, Major what's so funny?"
Athena didn't answer for some reason; she just started to laugh harder.
"Captain Lee Adama, correct?" questioned Commander Sheba.
Lee turned back to face the Commander, "Yes, ma'am."
Sheba gave him a bemused smile, "Hmm, I like the ma'aming…but anyway, what my dear Athena has neglected to tell you is I am also Commander Apollo's wife."
Lee's face went blank first, as yet another surprise was dropped on his head, and then red as the Commander's earlier remark finally made sense to his shell-shocked mind, "Uh…ma'am…" he trailed off unable to think of what to say.
Sheba just smiled at his discomfort. "Come along Apollo's been dying to meet you ever since Athena told him about you, and I doubt that's she's going to be coherent enough to that for the next few minutes."
Sheba quickly led Lee to an elevated position above the workstations of the crew. There was a man sitting in a swivel chair staring at a screen in font of him with his back to the approaching Sheba and Lee.
"Apollo, he's here," she called out to the man; she turned to Lee, her eyes twinkling with amusement at this strange situation. "Captain Apollo, allow me to introduce Commander Apollo."
The man slowly stood up and turned around to face Lee.
Lee's body froze as the man's features registered in his already shocked to the breaking point mind. The man gave him a warm smile that reached the man's eyes, that Lee had never seen on that oh so familiar and despised face before.
"Are you godsdamned fracking with me?!" he screamed in anger, his face contorted with fury. "Is this supposed to be a joke!?" He turned to Sheba and Athena, who had hurried to his side after the initial outburst, in a rage, "Tigh was right, wasn't he? You are fracking Cylons!" he shouted backing away from them, his eyes darting about him, looking for a way to escape from what was to his mind such a truly and totally fracked up situation. His mind was screaming that he'd allowed himself to be captured and brought onboard a Cylon vessel by his own free will. If only he hadn't left his sidearm back on his Galactica! Despair threatened to overwhelm him now.
A small part of his mind that wasn't on the verge of panic was quietly wondering if they'd gone to so much trouble to arrange such an elaborate charade, how could they have missed such a small and significant a detail? How could they have forgotten that he already met Tom Zarek? Hell the entire fleet knew what Zarek looked like! And here now, the man standing before him, the so-called 'Commander Apollo' was the spitting image of Tom Zarek!
Athena stared at Lee aghast at his outburst and outrageous exclamations.
"Little brother? What's wrong?" Athena asked in mystification.
Lee his eyes boiling with rage turned on her. "Don't call me that! Don't you dare call me that you fracking toaster! This was all a set up! A charade!" he accused her.
Athena blinked at him. "Did you just call me a toaster?" she dumbly asked. "What do toasters have to do with all this? Just tell me what's set you off so!" she beseeched him. She couldn't understand what had riled him up so much. She'd so been enjoying his company.
Lee laughed a hoarse laugh. "Don't try to fool me, you're a fracking Cylon! All of you!"
Athena blinked again, her mind trying to comprehend what the hell was going on, what had so enraged him…she come up blank. She turned quickly to Sheba whispering to her, "What happened? I only left you for a couple of minutes!"
Sheba shrugged helplessly. "Everything was fine, right up until…"
"…Until he saw me," finished Commander Apollo quickly.
Athena quickly turned back to Lee. "What is it about our Apollo? What's wrong with him?"
Lee snorted angrily, "As if you don't know…his name isn't Apollo. It's Tom Zarek!"
Athena stared at him for a full a minute before comprehension dawned on her, "Are you saying there is a man in your fleet who looks exactly like Apollo?"
Lee didn't answer her he just stared fiercely at them all.
Athena took his silence as confirmation and continued with her line of questioning, "But that doesn't explain why you think we're Cylons…why do you think we're Cylons?"
Lee snorted again. "As if you didn't know," he spat.
Athena was now, starting to get annoyed. She put her hands on her hips and gave him her best command stare, "Humour me and explain it."
Lee met her gaze unflinchingly. "Fracking Cylons look like us now, with multiple copies of each one."
Athena felt as if Lee had just struck her, her face was white with disbelief. "The Cylons look like us?"
Lee just stared at her. "We can't tell them apart from us without using special tests," he added venomously.
Athena took this information in and turned around to face Apollo and the others. They shared all shared the same shocked horrified looks. Her eyes locked with Apollo's and she could just feel what he was thinking, no wonder Little brother was so panicked he thought he'd walked willingly into the Cylons' clutches. She quickly wracked her mind to find a way to assuage little brother of his beliefs.
An idea quickly came to her, she turned to Lee and spoke softly to him, "We are not Cylons, and this is really our Apollo." She held her hand to forestall his exclamations to the contrary and continued. "To prove this, I'll escort you back to your Galactica and undergo any tests you wish me to go through…and I'm sure my big brother won't mind going through the same tests once I'm finished. Right, Apollo?"
"Of course," Apollo quickly added.
Lee froze, not believing what he was hearing. He opened his mouth to speak but couldn't think clearly enough to say anything coherent. After a moment he said, "The test will take 11 hours per person-and one at a time."
"I don't think that will be a problem," Athena replied giving Lee a neutral glance. She gestured towards the elevator, "perhaps we should be on our way?"
Lee frowned not believing this was going on, if this was a trap they should already have sprung it and if they had wanted to maintain the charade then they should have either killed him or imprisoned him right now…not allow him to return to he Galactica, nor accompany him and agree to tests they had no idea what they entailed. His mind swirled with insane possibilities as he wordlessly started to head back to the docking bay with Athena in tow.
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Sol System, Earth same time
Farrie swept through Earth's online systems feeling like some sort of Goddess. She moved through the stream of knowledge that was constantly being broadcast through the atmosphere of this dimension's Earth. She passed through the most intricate of computer defences on this Earth as they weren't even there. If she wasn't careful she was going to get just a swelled head, nothing here could oppose her.
She was so advanced and they were so damn primitive! She thought with smug arrogance.
Quickly moving through all the databases now at her disposal she searched for all the relevant she needed. She accessed it and started preparing a small report to be relayed to the Bossman once she was finished.
Earth-this Earth was the centre of the Interstellar Commonwealth, which consisted of twenty-eight worlds of both humans and aliens, governed by a central parliament. The Commonwealth was protected by the Peacekeepers an all-human military. Each species in the Commonwealth is supposed to have an equal say in the running and governance of the Commonwealth, though Farrie noticed that recently several sanctions had been altered concerning several species-something to do about a conspiracy to destroy the Commonwealth and set it against a neighbouring power called the Zhirrzh.
Farrie quickly accessed the data on these Zhirrzh, an average reptilian species with opposable thumbs, but physically weaker than humans. The possessed special characteristics that even Farrie had never heard about before, not to mention amazed her.
First, the species had a part of their brain removed will children called their fsss organs. These organs were preserved and kept well protected and at the moment of a Zhirrzh's death, their consciousness would return to the organ and the Zhirrzh would continue life as an intangible Elders. In other words Death wasn't the end for them just the jump from being a normal organic to a Ghost! They continued to exist for centuries after their physical death as Elders. Another curious fact associated with Eldership was that a cutting could be taken from the fsss organs. Once separated the two parts could act as anchors for the Elder allowing them to flick from one anchor to the other instantaneously, no matter how far separated they were even over distances measured in light years.
The Zhirrzh gained a method of instant communication through this without having to go through much trouble.
Second and just as dumbfounding was the fact that these same fsss organs when exposed to radio waves caused great pain in normal adult Zhirrzh and death in children and Elders. This lead to radio wave generators of any type into becoming called Elderdeath weapons, by the alien's standards a weapon of mass destruction.
Farrie whistled silently to herself. Bet that led to some pretty interesting First Contacts.
She continued browsing the archives; Zhirrzh currently occupying eighteen worlds with four subjugated species under them, though she noticed that they appeared to be negotiating with them now.
Farrie dismissed the reasons as irrelevant to her now and went back to learning about the new humans. Okay, five years ago, First Contact with Zhirrzh occurred.
Farrie snorted as expected, the humans-the Peacekeepers unknowingly 'fired first' and the Zhirrzh wiped out the Peacekeeper task force that was opposing them.
Things just snowballed downhill after that as war broke out between them…though the Zhirrzh strategy bewildered her. They set up beachhead after beachhead, overstretching themselves early in war for no discernable reason to her. Farrie frowned at this searched for the answer to this enigma, especially considering that the Zhirrzh didn't seem to be absolute idiots from all accounts.
She found the answer quickly enough and it shocked her to her core. The answer was in a weapon code named CIRCE…and this weapon caused her re-evaluate her belief that perhaps the Commonwealth wasn't as primitive as she first thought. Some type of ion beam radiation weapon. But the reports she could access weren't going into detail. Nothing about how it actually worked and all the proposed theories that were put out about how it worked were wrong as far as she could discern with the not insignificant knowledge base at her disposal.
Unless all of the scientist if Hapes, Galactica Alliance and the Imperial Remnant were all wrong.
And Bossman had drilled into her since day one, that you should be enlightened enough about your own situation to know just how truly ignorant you are about what's possible in the universe and want isn't.
She quickly went through all the data she had on the Commonwealth and some things that hadn't made sense started to. For one, why before encountering the Zhirrzh they had been at peace for four decades despite the fact that several alien species would gladly have gone to war with the humans.
Pure uncompromising fear of the weapon after its one use had actually managed to maintain the peace. This similarly between Palpatine's Empire and the Commonwealth were unnerving but other info quieted her fears.
There were no outrageous wholesale massacres reported on official channels or the hidden servers she'd found, or anything other that would indicate a tyranny. A few injustices and instances of speciest laws but even those were being altered, or under discussion in the Commonwealth Parliament.
Heh, things were definitely changing for the better in the Commonwealth. She continued on with her investigations, this time taking it slower and going over the data carefully.
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Commonwealth Parliamentary building
Ambassador Lord Steward Cavanaugh walked slowly down the corridor towards the meeting room he'd been urgently summoned to. His son Aric, followed closely behind.
Lord Stewart smiled in bemusement at that, in the aftermath of the Zhirrzh war both he and their son had found themselves to be political batteries. The Zhirrzh had requested him as their ambassador and the Ycroma had also demanded a member of the Cavanaugh family as a liaison, especially in light of how the Ycroma had been unknowingly incorrectly maligned by the Peacekeepers though the machinations of the Mrachanis.
After the war and revelation of just how devious the Mrachanis were, the Peacekeepers-as well as the majority of the Commonwealth came down hard on them. To appease the Ycroma, Aric had found himself thrust into the political arena; becoming their ambassador to the Ycroma. And all this because the entire Cavanaugh family were honoured by the entire Ycroman race. They were the first humans to see through the Mrachanis deceptions-not to mention helping to arm them their ships against an impeding Zhirrzh attack, one that had been orchestrated by the Mrachanis.
What bemused Lord Stewart the most was that before all that, Aric had sworn to his father that he would never enter politics…though Stewart had watched as his son had done him proud. All those years as director of Cavtronics operations, Cavtronics being the company owned by the family and dealing with alien delegations to the company, had helped him enormously.
His mind turned back to the matter at hand. They'd both been summoned to an urgent meeting about the unknown ship that had appeared so suddenly in Earth orbit, scaring the bejesus out of every single Peacekeeper in the Sol system. If that wasn't bad enough to his thinking, there was the fact that it had only been an hour and a half since the event and he'd been hearing rumours of massive Peacekeeper mobilisations and alarms being sent out my a truly alarming number of skitters. His aide Adam Quinn, a reserve Copperhead fighter pilot for the Peacekeepers had already been recalled to active duty and ordered to the nearest military base. His thoughts darkened as he wondered just what kind of hell they were in for now.
They reached the conference room and a Peacekeeper sergeant let them in. Lord Steward entered and cast an eye around the conference room. It was in the standard configuration of all conference rooms, a central elongated oval table in a spartan room, several people were already seated and ready for the meeting.
Lord Stewart smiled as he recognised several of the occupants already present he greeted them each in turn. "ci Yyatoor, it is an honour to see you again," he said agreeably to the female Ycroman ambassador Klyveress ci Yyatoor.
The Ycroma were a reptilian species with heads complete with long snouts similar to Earth crocodiles. Klyveress return his smile with a toothy one of her own[Greetings Lord Cavanaugh, Aric Cavanaugh. It is good to see you both again under any circumstances.
Lord Stewart nodded in acknowledgement as Aric replied in kind. Lord Stewart continued his greetings to the person sitting next to Klyveress, Admiral Rudzinski.
Admiral Rudzinski one of the Triad, the three member High Command of the Peacekeepers, the fact that he was here indicated to Lord Steward just how serious this situation was. "Good Afternoon Admiral," Stewart said with a grim smile.
The admiral returned the grim nod, "Sorry to drag you here on such short notice but as you've guessed and no doubt heard, certain things have happened. Why don't you take a seat, we're just waiting for Brigadier Bronski to arrive and then the meeting can begin," he said in very serious and forbidding voice.
"And if the Cavanaghs can move out of my way we can begin," came Bronski's familiar and indigent voice from behind Lord Stewart and his son.
Lord Stewart turned around and found Bronski's familiar face glaring back at him. "And it's good to see you again too, Bronski. It's been a while hasn't it," he retorted
Brigadier General Petr Bronski of Peacekeeper Military Intelligence glared at him. "Not long enough as far as I'm concerned," he growled fiercely, remembering how complicated things became the last time the Cavanaghs were involved in a First Contact situation. Though deep down-very deep down he admitted to himself that the meddling had benefited everyone greatly in the end…well everybody but the Mrachanis anyway.
"Glad to see you're as chipper as ever," Lord Stewart retorted.
Bronski opened his mouth to retort but the Admiral interrupted their banter. "Gentlemen I believe we have more pressing issues at hand and as I understand time is of the essence."
Both men acknowledged the Admiral's rebuke and moved into the room. Bronski walked immediately to the head of the table and faced the other occupants as Lord Stewart and Aric took their seats.
Bronski his face bleaker now than before began the briefing. "As you've all no doubt heard, an alien vessel appeared in Earth orbit without warning, our wake trail detectors didn't so much as twitch before it appeared! Reports form the nearest Peacekeeper vessel, the Yorkshire," he paused shooting the Cavanaghs a pointed glare. "Captain Pheylan Cavanaugh commanding-relax he's okay, state that space distorted and then the vessel just appeared rapidly decelerating into the Yorkshire's path. A collision was avoided and communications were opened fairly quickly…"
Klyveress ci Yyatoor interrupted Bronski, her voice clouded with confusion[If it is an alien how did Captain Cavanaugh manage to establish communications with them so quickly? she said leaning forward earnestly.
Bronski smiled a wicked smile, "That's the kicker, the ship is called the Farscape 3 and its Captain happens to be one Commander John Crichton…a human."
Shock rippled through them all as this surprise caused them all to reel back in disbelief.
Aric quickly gathered his wits and asked, "How is this possible? You said it was an alien vessel!"
"The ship's alien as hell," retorted Bronski quickly. "What few scans we've managed to get of the ship have scared the tech boys witless. The energy coming off this ship is literally off the scales!" Bronski spat in disgust, "But the captain is human and the name of the ship is written on the hull…in English!"
Aric sat back as if slapped.
Bronski cleared his throat and braced himself before continuing. "And this situation still gets worse," he said softly.
Admiral Rudzinski gave the Brigadier a pointed look, "Explain, quickly."
Bronski's face twisted with emotion. "Brace yourselves, the reason Commander Crichton is here, is to give as all a warning. Apparently there used to be twelve human occupied worlds outside of the Commonwealth-"
Lord Steward cut in, his face contorted with disbelief. "That's impossible! How could that be true? Who could set up so many colonies outside the Commonwealth without alerting the Parliament? Not to mention Peacekeepers?"
"I don't know," Bronski retorted quickly. "I have analysts trying to figure that out now even as we speak. But as I was saying, there used to be twelve colonies. Used to being the operative words." He glanced around the room seeing if anyone had understood the true meaning of his words. The Ycroman female and the admiral were frowning and seemed to understand him, but the not the Cavanaghs.
He continued bracing him for the reactions he was likely o elicit now. "Several months ago they were attacked by a Sentient Robotic race known as the Cylons…these Cylons wiped out all life on all twelve worlds without a seconds hesitation and according to Commander Crichton their main goal in life is to wipe out the Race know as Man!" He paused for a quick second before continuing. "And they're heading here, even as we speak."
The admiral reacted instantly, shooting out of his chair so fast, he overturned it. "Are you fucking kidding me?!" he screamed at Bronski, his mind unable to completely comprehend all the Intelligence officer was saying. The others in the room also visibly reacted, the Cavanaghs going deathly pale as the blood drained form their faces and the Ycroman started grinding her not inconsiderate teeth together.
"No sir! I've already dispatched messages via Elders and skitters to all Peacekeeper outposts to go to full alert. I've recalled every last reservist we have on the books and I've got my people preparing for the worst." Bronski finished dismally.
The admiral now red-faced with emotion faced the Brigadier. Deathly silent, he stared at Bronski. Finally, after a few moments he asked calmly, "Where is this Crichton now?"
"He's in the other room sir, waiting for us to finish here," Bronski quickly retorted.
"Then get him in here! Now!" Rudzinski demanded.
"Uh sir, I have to warn you, he's not alone and, well truthfully…he's a very strange character to say least," Bronski warned.
"Anything else?" Rudzinski questioned.
"Yes sir, he's not alone, there are others with him, his wife, one Colonel Aeryn Sun-Crichton formerly of the Hapan Navy, a Jai-Jedi Master Quinlan Vos and…well…this creature claiming to be a human called Primarch Leman Russ," Bronski finished awkwardly.
The admiral frowned. "Claiming to be human? Either it is or it isn't."
"Well sir, he's says he's human and personally I'm not inclined to argue with him-you'll understand when you see him," Bronski said uneasily.
The admiral frowned and then glared at Bronski, "Fine, go get them…now!"
Bronski nodded and went to the conference room door. He stepped outside and conversed for a few seconds with the guard stationed there before dispatching him to bring back Crichton and the others. Meanwhile, as the Admiral retrieved his fallen chair. Aric having regained some semblance of control of his motor functions after the surprises Bronski had heaped on them, turned to his face.
The elder Cavanaugh's face was grey and ashen. "Dad are you okay?" Aric asked in concern.
Lord Steward swallowed, "I…I thin…I think so. It's just so much to take in all at once. I mean a machine race bent on genocide against us? What the devil did we ever do to them?" asked vehemently of the universe in general.
Aric smiled as the emotion started to return colour to his father's face, "I do wonder there's so many unanswered questions, my mind's so overflowing. I don't know if I'll actually be able to form any coherent questions."
Lord Steward smiled at his son and made to retort but was stopped when Bronski re-entered the room. A few moments later Lord Steward laid eyes on their visitors.
First through was a young radiantly beautiful woman with raven hair dressed all in black leather complete with a full-length leather jacket with calculating dark eyes that quickly assessed everything they saw and who looked slightly older than his daughter Melinda. Following closely in her wake was a young man also dressed in black leather and with a wicked scar running down the left side of his face making him look down right intimidating. He gazed around the room and gave everyone a cocky smile.
Behind him came a brown robed hooded man. The man lowered his hood as he entered and dark eyes seemed to gaze into the souls of each person at the table.
Slightly disturbed now, Lord Steward waited for the four member of the group to enter.
He gasped as an enormous giant of man passed though the doorway, almost bending down completely to get through the narrow (to him) doorway. He steeped into the room and stretched out to his full height, completely obscuring the doorway. The man-or creature as Bronski had referred to him, gazed down intently at them. Fathomless golden eyes scanned the crowd and Lord Steward shuddered as they passed over him. The man's gaze lingered on Klyveress and a flicker of disgust and rage came crossed over the man's features before disappearing just as quickly as they appeared.
The assembled quartet stood before them in silence for a couple of seconds before the scared man stepped forward and said in a southern drawl, "Howdy folks, the names John Crichton and boy do I have a dozy of a story to tell you…"
Author's Notes: Hope u like this chapter. Please read and Review even if it's just to say good chapter. Ok, details of the new crossover as promised, and as for the [ used for Ycroman speech, that was how the author did so in the novels, I just copied that. Though I don't know why he did it.
Next Time: Zarek and Apollo
