Harriet Monkhouse hflysator@jarriere.demon.co.uk wrote:
Jacqui wrote:
When Vila says he bought his 'grade four ignorant' status (and elsewhere Avon calls him a 'grade five ignorant') to avoid being made a captain - but why assume he means a military/space service captain - perhaps he was trying to avoid being made a captain of a prison ship such as the London
Or a cricket captain.
-- Harriet
Given Vila's 'social class' he is more likely to end up being captain of the London (and who would want to have a load of bolshy revolting (probably in both senses) prisoners to look after - it would be a perfectly sensible decision to avoid going down that path. He was probably trying to annoy Tarrant.
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