--- Marian wrote:
In Assassin, why are the two slavers who are holding Avon not surprised when he addresses "Sleer" as Servalan? And does this mean that she later kills them to keep their mouths shut? Or even kills all the slavers? And if the latter is the case, would she get a medal for it, or would the Federation elite be peeved about having lost its illegal slave market?
Reluctantly discounting Anna's elegant theory, I had always assumed that when the slavers were finally ushered into the presence of President Jarriere he found the explanation about Sleer being really Servalan way too complicated, and instead persuaded them to give him the recipie for Deep Fried Mangan.
Seriously, I presume that anyone in that sort of business develops a sort of selective deafness. After all, no-one's going to buy slaves from a planet whose local pirates keep contacting the law whenever they find out some useful piece of information.
I always assumed that the slave buyers were from non-Federation worlds as slavery is legal in the Federation, so the slavers may not have heard of Servalan. If they did try and blackmail her she could arrange to have the planet decimated as part of her ongoing crusade to restore the rule of law to the galaxy.
Stephen.
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