Harriere wrote:
While I pondered these things, Kat W suggested a simple solution to me. The Andromedans were actually the Australians, who emigrated in search of better weather after the Americans and Russians blew each other up, leaving the England cricket team and the Barmy Army to recolonise Earth (see my earlier post). The Aussie/Andros returned to reclaim the Ashes. Justin's faction thought they were absolutely entitled to take the urn home from Lord's, after winning the series for several centuries on the trot. But MCC, the real power behind the Federation, said they'd never surrendered custody of the Ashes to the Aussies when they lived on the other side of the same planet and they were damned if they were change their policy now that they lived in another galaxy.
And further to this, I suspect that the Andromedan invading fleet wasn't actually part of their military, it was just a bunch of blokes in the equivalent of their souped-up trucks, which explains the somewhat ramshackle, homespun appearance of the fleet. The bodies hanging up at Star One were just a mistaken attempt at a barbie en route.
Yes, and Dayna got really good at throwing concealed weapons when Justin told her that the MCC had rescinded its decision to allow women as full members. She reasoned that she'd become the best and most accurate spin bowler (?) of them all and wouldn't it be fun if the message was accompanied by a bit of boom today?
Kat W.