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Was the UESC at Lh'owon?
Posted By: Steve LevinsonDate: 10/31/05 5:33 p.m.

We all remember this terminal from You're Wormfood, Dude:


I am Arther Frain, Chief Petty Officer, USEC Marathon.
Arther Frane calling all USEC personnel
Calling Cmdr. Robert Blake...
Calling Security Chief Jones...
Arther Frain calling any USEC controlled ship in vicinity...

Station hull breached, we are losing pressurization. More than half the men are without vacuum suits. Patrols reporting intruder, last location unknown.

Any USEC controlled ship surviving nova event, transport when ready.

Arther Frain calling.
That is all...

So my question is this - other than the contingent from the Marathon whom Durandal brought to Lh'owon on Boomer, was the UESC at the battle of Lh'owon? The reason I ask is that this quote terminal has always troubled me. All of the references are presumably to people from the original Marathon. But what about the reference to "Any USEC controlled ship"? And why did he use USEC rather than UESC? We know from M2 that Durandal returned to Earth after the events of M1 before he began his quest for Lh'owon, but he kept all the original Marathon crew members in stasis and woke them only when they had arrived, as he did with us. He gave the UESC the technology for warp-capable fusion rockets, which they could have presumably eventually used to build space ships, but it doesn't seem logical that they would have made it to Lh'owon. But Arther Frain clearly refers to "any USEC controlled ship". What other ships were there besides Boomer or the Rozinante? Did Blake's men manage to commandeer other Pfhor ships? Was this something unique to this particular failed timeline? Or did they somehow manage to contact earth and summon help. Or maybe Frain was just calling out in desperation. What do you think?

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Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Steve Levinson 10/31/05 5:33 p.m.
     Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?ukimalefu 10/31/05 6:43 p.m.
           Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Steve Levinson 11/2/05 8:41 a.m.
     Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Mr. Bill 10/31/05 9:01 p.m.
           Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Bob-B-Q 11/1/05 5:24 a.m.
     Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Blayne 11/1/05 10:44 a.m.
           Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Steve Levinson 11/1/05 5:12 p.m.
           Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Hamish Sinclair 11/2/05 10:51 a.m.
                 Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Vid Boi 11/2/05 10:32 p.m.
                       Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon? *LINK*Aaron Sikes 8/3/06 8:12 a.m.
                             Re: Was the UESC at Lh'owon?Forrest of B.org 8/3/06 1:06 p.m.

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