Talk:Vorak of Kolnap - Revision history

Faterson at 09:20, 15 May 2014

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Faterson at 14:47, 6 April 2014

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Faterson at 23:58, 5 April 2014

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Faterson: /* «Mission Beta: A Lighter Shade of ''Rouge''» */

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«Mission Beta: A Lighter Shade of ''Rouge''»

Faterson: /* «Mission Delta: Sphericity» */

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«Mission Delta: Sphericity»

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ib.

Faterson at 17:16, 4 April 2014

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Faterson at 16:51, 4 April 2014

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Faterson: «Mission Epsilon: Sphericity Redux»

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«Mission Epsilon: Sphericity Redux»

Faterson: ib.

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	<div style="padding-bottom: 2.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.25em">'''Post your feedback [http://aboq.org/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=7&t=1559 HERE]''', '''or use [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes footnotes]''' directly within the body of the quotations listed below.</span></div>		<div style="padding-bottom: 2.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.25em">'''Post your feedback [http://aboq.org/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=7&t=1559 HERE]''', '''or use [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes footnotes]''' directly within the body of the quotations listed below.</span></div>
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		+	<div class="comments">About ''Vorak of Kolnap''</div>
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		+	<span style="font-size:1.25em">A World of Mung.</span> That’s what they called Kolnap, a sorry sack of methane mush, the least glorious posting in the entire Nardan Confederation, a good thirty years’ freeze from the nearest “civilized” planet. Careers were lost on Kolnap, not made, until one cockroach had the courage to make a difference, had the abdomen to stand up and join claws across the species, daring the embrace of the temptress grasshopper Nayluu and building an alliance with his ant sergeant, Orkan. Together they rewrote the history of Kolnap, a history forged in the soul of the roach of roaches, the roach they called “Vorak of Kolnap”.
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		+	''Vorak of Kolnap'' is a complete sci-fi novel by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]'''.

	== «Mission Alpha: A World of Mung» ==		== «Mission Alpha: A World of Mung» ==

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	<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]''' (2014)</div>		<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]''' (2014)</div>

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 == «Mission Beta: A Lighter Shade of ''Rouge''» ==
-<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Vorak inspected his image carefully in the mirror. He hadn’t worn Full Dress since graduation from the Academy. Forty-five years had passed — forty in the freeze can and five at Kolnap itself.
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Vorak inspected his image carefully in the mirror. He hadn’t worn Full Dress since graduation from the Academy. Forty-five years had passed—forty in the freeze can and five at Kolnap itself.
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 == «Mission Delta: Sphericity» ==
-Vorak and Nayluu were the single spark of glamour for a trillion miles and more. Even at Splight 0.9555, the juvie baths and fashion shops of Nardan were a good ten-year freeze flight away. With each passing day, Boron’s superb wardrobe grew more hopelessly out of date. Without Vorak’s eager eye, and Nayluu’s knowing one, she may as well have been dressing in sackcloth. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
+Vorak and Nayluu were the single spark of glamour for a trillion miles and more. Even at splight 0.9555, the juvie baths and fashion shops of Nardan were a good ten-year freeze flight away. With each passing day, Boron’s superb wardrobe grew more hopelessly out of date. Without Vorak’s eager eye, and Nayluu’s knowing one, she may as well have been dressing in sackcloth. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
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 “Thank Bob I’m armed,” he said, proffering an elbow. “Please remember to show a little mercy.”
-“Darling, you take these things so seriously.”
+“Darling, you take these things so seriously.” &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
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 The explanation he’d given at the resulting court martial—“She sure looked eighteen to me”—had gone down as the worst defense in twenty thousand years of cockroach jurisprudence. The presiding bug laughed so hard he’d split his chitin three weeks prior to molting, which didn’t help Vorak’s case one bit. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == ib. ==
 Damn it, he had handled this all wrong! He had been too cavalier, too sure of himself! Vorak, the great roach hunter, the bug without fear! He should have done it by the book, with back-up, searchlights, the whole six legs. Instead he had charged in like a rookie, cocksure and shotcrazy, never thinking there might be a second tarantula. His stupidity had cost Orkan his life. He was responsible! &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == «Mission Beta: A Lighter Shade of ''Rouge''» ==
 <span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Vorak inspected his image carefully in the mirror. He hadn’t worn Full Dress since graduation from the Academy. Forty-five years had passed — forty in the freeze can and five at Kolnap itself.
 == ib. ==
 Beneath all the fellowship in the room there was the ineffable scent—or was it an unhealthy stink?—of roach smugness and ''je-m’en-foutisme''. Take them one at a time, each of the roaches were good bugs. You could match them against any insects in the galaxy. But put them in a room together, and they went a little stale. Life was too easy, too good, too fat. When he saw the tiger beetle strippers coming on, he knew it was time to leave. He thought of an old line of poetry from grammar school. “They little know of Nardan, who only Nardan know.” What the vart did that mean? he used to ask. Now he knew. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
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 “I’ll tell you in a minute,” said Vorak, under his breath, nodding to a passing lady. “Too many bugs in the hall. <span class="in">[...]</span>” &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
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 “Darling, you take these things so seriously.”
 == «Mission Gamma: Ex-Duty» ==
 A real commander has three responsibilities: prioritize, prioritize, and prioritize.
 == ib. ==
 The sea, stiff with frozen slush and carrying thick cakes of frozen methane, broke in slow, heavy waves against the rear of the ''Morat''.
 == Nayluu, ib. ==
 <span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; “Darling, I haven’t seen green for centuries.” &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == Vorak, ib. ==
 <span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; “If you’re in my outfit, you are expendable, because I’m expendable. That’s one of the burdens of command.” &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == «Mission Delta: Sphericity» ==
 Vorak and Nayluu were the single spark of glamour for a trillion miles and more. Even at Splight 0.9555, the juvie baths and fashion shops of Nardan were a good ten-year freeze flight away. With each passing day, Boron’s superb wardrobe grew more hopelessly out of date. Without Vorak’s eager eye, and Nayluu’s knowing one, she may as well have been dressing in sackcloth. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == ib. ==
 <span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Vorak stared at her. So haughty, and yet so needy. What a combination! &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == «Mission Epsilon: Sphericity Redux» ==
 <span class="in">[...]</span> “native cuisine”—fermented fungus in ant saliva— <span class="in">[...]</span>

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 <span class="in">[...]</span> “native cuisine”—fermented fungus in ant saliva— <span class="in">[...]</span>

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	<span class="par">¶</span>  Vorak stared at her. So haughty, and yet so needy. What a combination!  <span class="par">¶</span>		<span class="par">¶</span>  Vorak stared at her. So haughty, and yet so needy. What a combination!  <span class="par">¶</span>
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	Vorak and Nayluu were the single spark of glamour for a trillion miles and more. Even at Splight 0.9555, the juvie baths and fashion shops of Nardan were a good ten-year freeze flight away. With each passing day, Boron’s superb wardrobe grew more hopelessly out of date. Without Vorak’s eager eye, and Nayluu’s knowing one, she may as well have been dressing in sackcloth.  <span class="par">¶</span>		Vorak and Nayluu were the single spark of glamour for a trillion miles and more. Even at Splight 0.9555, the juvie baths and fashion shops of Nardan were a good ten-year freeze flight away. With each passing day, Boron’s superb wardrobe grew more hopelessly out of date. Without Vorak’s eager eye, and Nayluu’s knowing one, she may as well have been dressing in sackcloth.  <span class="par">¶</span>
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		+	== ib. ==
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		+	<span class="par">¶</span>  Vorak stared at her. So haughty, and yet so needy. What a combination!  <span class="par">¶</span>