Helen wrote: <Ack! I shall defend my Oak Leaves (actually, was never awarded any despite thinking Gan's a slendid chap ...>
<smile of modest pride> *I've* got one - can't actually recall now why I got it though ...
<As for the dangerousness of Gan vs. Doran, I definitely did not make it clear that I meant that I thought the Federation was jumping to erroneous conclusions when they thought Gan was more dangerous than Doran to them.>
I still think the matter is simple. The limiter is not to prevent people fighting others, whether legally (as in a trooper) or unfairly (as in Doran's nasty ways with women). Gan bends and mangles plenty of enemies with no problem. It's to stop them *killing*.
The limiter was used on people who killed. There's nothing in Moloch to suggest that Doran was convicted of murder. Gan was.
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I still think the matter is simple. The limiter is not to prevent people fighting others, whether legally (as in a trooper) or unfairly (as in Doran's nasty ways with women). Gan bends and mangles plenty of enemies with no problem. It's to stop them *killing*.
The limiter was used on people who killed. There's nothing in Moloch to suggest that Doran was convicted of murder. Gan was.
The other (fairly simple) explanation is that Doran was convicted some time in the past (I think he says 20 years). Limiters may not have been in use at that time. They do not appear to have been common in any event. Vila, whose experience of the penal system seems to have been extensive, had never heard of them in Time Squad.
Stephen.
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