On the same episode, a small fact, the significance of which I'm still mulling over ... GP has only been trying to 'put their house in order' (as Orac says) for a short period of time. While I think it must be longer than the thirty days since they formally applied to join the Federation, it still indicates that bounty hunting on GP hasn't been going on that long. So while Blake may have been building up his group on GP for longer (he obviously has an affinity for working with law-breakers), possibly the bounty hunter bit is only very recent, adapting to circumstances, as 'twere ...
Also, how long was GP an open planet? We don't *know* how old Soolin was when her family was murdered, it appears to be generally assumed that she was a child (so that the murderers would 'adopt' and teach her) but I really don't know that we can be talking about 15-20 or more years, since it would not take that long for the farmers to be disposed of, or the new owners to want rid of the crooks and murderers afterwards. Any thoughts?
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