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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 2156714" data-attributes="member: 835">Saanath: [sblock]On the second evening of the jump, Saanath begins to recover snippets of potentially useful data from Mr. Blair's computer.  It's an extremely slow process, due to the encryption and the physical damage to the computer itself.  The files relate to his hunts on various worlds across the domain.  Not finding anything that jumps out at him, Saanath reads the account of Blair's hunt on Kansas, where he took the Afeakhtorow (as a refresher, that's a large, dangerous, jumping cat, often hunted by the Aslan on your planet) that's down in storage. It's a good description, and he makes the hunt sound exciting, but something seems off, and he looks back at the date at the top of the account.  According to Blair's itinery, he was on Kansas about a year ago.  In the city, around the starport, that would have been summer, it's true.  But Afeakhtorow live in the northern hemisphere, where it would have been deepest winter. The cat Saanath saw down in the hold had it's summer coloration.  Unless the dates he was on the planet are wrong, which seems unlikely given the rest of his itinery, Blair did not take this cat.   He keeps reading and runs into another snag.  Blair says he met with local authorities at the Office of Game and Fisheries, to arrange for taking his quarry off world, pay his export tax, and stock up on some antivenom for an upcoming reptile hunt.  He describes the ranger he met with as a young Solomani man with blonde hair, blue eyes by the name of Carl Martin.  The thing is, on Kansas, Warden, like most other titles in planetary government, is (de facto, only) hereditary.  For as long as Saanath or anyone else in his family has lived on Kansas, the Rangers have been members of John Warders' family (John was one of the Saanath school mates as a kid.  On a planet with only one major town and only 7,000 sentients, he knows all the families at least in passing).  The Warders aren't blonde and they certainly aren't Solomani.  [/sblock]</blockquote>

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