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What drives Max Gavaskar?
I’ve met her. I knew her before she became known as “The Mother of the Galaxy”. I don’t know her well enough to understand her inner desires and motivations. She is the only one who can truly know this information and even then who among us really understands our true nature.
I’ve had enough conversations with her, over the years, that I can better than only a few offer up a reasoning about what motivates her.
She is a logic driven individual. Her passion is a quest for knowledge. Anything that hinders this quest is an issue that needs to be dealt with in a dispassionate and logical way. Define the problem and design a solution based on all the information available.
When she first came to understand the underlying problem with FTL travel her first reaction was to go directly to the SID with the facts. Had she done so, history would have turned out very differently. If she had turned to them she would have surely been arrested and who knows if she would have ever come to her insight? The Fordians were already on their way by then. How would have First Contact turned out if Dorian Thain had not had Max’s insight in his back pocket? I’m guessing not well for the humans. How would the Galactic War have ended had Max not been in Estonia at just right time to confront Gary Meyer?
There was an ancient Earth movie called “A Wonderful Life” it was about how things would turn out different if one person were not there. I can imagine a very different scenario had Max Gavaskar not followed the path she chose.
So tomorrow, I’ll write my version of what would have happened if Max had not escaped the SID and how the Galactic War would have been a very different thing.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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