fallsfromtrees wrote:"saber964"]"stewart" "cthia"]"fallsfromtrees"]"cthia"]
I'd like Lois Suchon's raw POV when she found her ass dirtside in OBS.
"I can't believe that jumped up Bitch called my bluff!"
Of course later, when she found out what had happened on Fearless, she might well of been "Good thing she threw me off the ship - that would have been a lot of work"[/quote]
Agreed. She put the so in sorry. Why she wanted to be a Naval doctor is beyond me.
No wonder her last name. She was always telling authority "Suchon this!"[/quote]
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A couple items --
1) Lois Suchon joined a peace-time navy (or so she thought). There are many that Avairs Terekhov would call 60%ers -- doing just enough to get by. Unfortunately a peace-time military sometimes lends itself to that attitude rather than the attitude of "what do we do if ..." (fill in blank for contingency planning). See Elvis Santino for an example of a 60%er.
2) Lois Suchon had probably been able to bluff her way with previous CO's; She did not count on her CO being the daughter of not only TWO doctors, but one of them was a very SENIOR military surgeon.
Basically Honor recognized her character type, and, although Honor may not have known the details of Suchon's job (but don't bet on it), she knew enough that Suchon would be near-useless as a combat surgeon.
It WOULD be interesting to find out if Alfred Harrington had ever met Suchon, and his opinion of her !!
-- Stewart[/quote]
I've always wondered about Suchon later military carier. Which probably took on the appearance of a boat anchor. My guess has always been that she was assigned after Fearless to MARS (
Manticore
Arctic
Research
Service) Adamson-Prescott (Amudson-Scott) station at Sphinx's south pole for a year as station doctor. (what they forgot to tell her, that it was for a planetary year)[/quote]
Only half a year at the South Pole when spring starts, she needs to be transferred to the North Pole for the remaining half year.[/quote]
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Followed by a local year tour at Gryphon's polar stations (since she has experience in the duty type !!)
-- Stewart