I just feel like it's missing something. *ponders* I think it's maybe not concentrating enough on the overarching plot -- it's too much about the Loring Family Issues.
I know. I know. *dramatic sigh*
There was some kind of war or something about fifteen years earlier, and the Crown decided that they were going to cut their losses and leave the penal colonists alone while they fought the damn war. They were actually going to withdraw the governor (Colonel Loring), his family, and the troops present, but Loring elected to stay behind, along with some, though not most, of the troops. He did offer to send Lady Lucy and the kids away, but she said, "No, I'll stay with you," and they stuck it out. And then Home just kind of...lost track of the colony. It kind of became one of those legends, like the missing Roanoke colony, and it was pure accident that they actually found it later on.
The guy hasn't seen his kids in more than ten years! Hard to treat the boy you used to know as a very earnest eight-year-old as a grown man, warrior, and leader, especially when he's still about the same age that military cadets are, at which point they do still tend to be...pretty much kids. (The question here is if I go with, "Oh, let's make it a military academy," which is a little more modern, or go with purchasing commissions, which is more Victorian. Questions, questions. I like the academy, though.)
Skandar runs the Delta Force, sneak in through windows, steal documents, and cut throats, branch of the military, and he and Jules figured out that what was going down was NOT RIGHT; Home was going to screw over the colony. (They're also much more native than Homelander; they barely remember their father, while Jaime and Victoria distantly do.) Skandar and his team went off to track some of the politicos and military leaders around the globe, and eventually get Jaime and Tori back (as well as Lady Lucy, but she's got a couple aces of her own up her sleeve), and Jules stayed behind in the colony to hide out and watch from that end.
I think we may also meet Lady Lucy's two brothers, the Babingtons, who aren't particularly friendly with Colonel Loring and aren't happy that their sister and her children just got abandoned -- they're not happy with the way Jaime and Tori are being treated now, either. (Home Government was originally treating Jaime, sort of, the way they treat foreign dignitaries -- of the uncivilized, we are about to conquer your country, type -- and then they dumped Jaime on the colonel at some point. Tori got shipped in later. Lady Lucy didn't even get the dignitary treatment; they just dumped her with her brothers.)
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I know. I know. *dramatic sigh*
There was some kind of war or something about fifteen years earlier, and the Crown decided that they were going to cut their losses and leave the penal colonists alone while they fought the damn war. They were actually going to withdraw the governor (Colonel Loring), his family, and the troops present, but Loring elected to stay behind, along with some, though not most, of the troops. He did offer to send Lady Lucy and the kids away, but she said, "No, I'll stay with you," and they stuck it out. And then Home just kind of...lost track of the colony. It kind of became one of those legends, like the missing Roanoke colony, and it was pure accident that they actually found it later on.
The guy hasn't seen his kids in more than ten years! Hard to treat the boy you used to know as a very earnest eight-year-old as a grown man, warrior, and leader, especially when he's still about the same age that military cadets are, at which point they do still tend to be...pretty much kids. (The question here is if I go with, "Oh, let's make it a military academy," which is a little more modern, or go with purchasing commissions, which is more Victorian. Questions, questions. I like the academy, though.)
Skandar runs the Delta Force, sneak in through windows, steal documents, and cut throats, branch of the military, and he and Jules figured out that what was going down was NOT RIGHT; Home was going to screw over the colony. (They're also much more native than Homelander; they barely remember their father, while Jaime and Victoria distantly do.) Skandar and his team went off to track some of the politicos and military leaders around the globe, and eventually get Jaime and Tori back (as well as Lady Lucy, but she's got a couple aces of her own up her sleeve), and Jules stayed behind in the colony to hide out and watch from that end.
I think we may also meet Lady Lucy's two brothers, the Babingtons, who aren't particularly friendly with Colonel Loring and aren't happy that their sister and her children just got abandoned -- they're not happy with the way Jaime and Tori are being treated now, either. (Home Government was originally treating Jaime, sort of, the way they treat foreign dignitaries -- of the uncivilized, we are about to conquer your country, type -- and then they dumped Jaime on the colonel at some point. Tori got shipped in later. Lady Lucy didn't even get the dignitary treatment; they just dumped her with her brothers.)
Colonel Loring also has a live-in mistress.