On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Sally Manton wrote:
Ellynne wrote: <One thing that does irritate me with Countdown is that no one considers evacuating part of the population to the Liberator. They could have reasonably gotten at least a few children on board.>
This is a good question (I've thought before that in between Fighting for Freedom, the Librator could be and quite possibly was used to ferry refugees and dissidents around). I suppose the main problem *would* be whether they could get more than a few people on board and, if not, how to select the few and get them away without the rest of the population fighting them for a berth, and panic leading to a lot of violence. It's rather like trying to get the passengers of a *very very* large Titanic into very very tiny lifeboats ...
Not to mention the security risk.
What? You don't think that at least one refugee wouldn't immediately betray Blake and collect a large bounty within minutes of reaching safety? Then you're not living in the Blake's 7 universe.
Iain