Greetings shrewd readers. Thanks for being here.
This week we’re discussing the SID. Yesterday we mentioned Gary Meyer. History claims him to be one of the worst villains ever. If it wasn’t for Max and of course Sanderson, who knows what Meyer would have done? We can only speculate about the evil he might have brought to the galaxy.
The SID survived for some time after the Gary Meyer incident but their influence was never the same as it had been.
Historians are just now debating the merits or faults of the SID. Most historians seem to be taking the meme that the SID served their purpose very well while under Greenie control but that when they found themselves in control of their own destiny they began their slide.
I know some debates center on whether things would have gone better for the SID if their scientific arm had more control. Some argue that the scientists of the group would have insisted that reason be more of a guide than the greed that seemed to take over the agency when the political arm ascended to leadership of SID.
I must say that the only SID folks I’ve ever had any time for were their scientists and engineers. Most of them seemed reasonable people. Some of the managers I met from SID seemed totally incapable of seeing anything from any other perspective than their own.
That was the sttrength of the SID and their weakness too. They were so convinced of their superiority among humans they acted with supreme confidence. They were so blinded by their hubris that they could not conceive their down fall. They never saw it coming.
I was around when my friend Dorian Thain was negotiating with them regarding Max’s two BIG discoveries. Over and over he got the better of them simply because they considered him such a rube that they never imagined that he might do anything other than what they assumed a rube would do.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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