Re: In LotR will they show the ship G\'Kar left b5 in?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>That assumes two facts "not in evidence".
1. He's home to stay.
2. He has no plans to do any future traveling between the IA worlds.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Possible rebuttal:
1. Internal evidence from the short stories and novels suggests that G'Kar avoids Narn, but otherwise stays around in the general vicinity of IA space.
2. This depends on how
much future travelling he plans to do, and who is paying for it.
I used to do a lot of travelling professionally, but I never owned a private jet.
A ship, especially a long-range exploration vessel, is going to be expensive to maintain, even if it isn't being used much. (Ask anyone who owns a boat, especially a sea-going one, or a plane.) The more it is used the more it costs in fuel, and docking fees, the less it is used, the more it cost to keep it somewhere.
If G'Kar goes resumes his position with the Interstellar Alliance (and it seems he does) he'll have access to IA transports in addition to normal commercial ships, and either way the Alliance should be able to provide security by concealing is itinerary. (No problem on military or government transports, easy to do by booking commercial flights under a false name and travelling with forged documents - something IA security should be adept at, especially with Tessa Halloran in charge.)
BTW, does anyone wonder how G'Kar can
afford all this travel? Even a
used spaceship has to cost some serious coin. Then there's food, fuel and other staples en route, plus "port charges" and the like, plus food and lodging while he and Lyta are groundside. Maybe Garibaldi slipped Lyta a few hundred thousand credits from the secret fund before they left? (As a passenger, she'd be expected to kick-in for "gas money", one would think.) But G'Kar had planned to make the trip whether or not Lyta joined him. How was he going to pay for it?
Did he get a lump-sum payment of his back salary as a member of the Ka'Ri (sp?) from the time of the Centauri occupation until Narn was liberated? Do Narn government employees make that much?
Was he independently wealthy
before the show started? If so, how did his wealth survive the bombing and occupation, which must have devastated the Narn economy?
Maybe he had a rich wife with a fat insurance policy at some point.
Regards,
Joe
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