Trial, addendum

[lyssie]

RSR!

The seed! The bit that sends Travis into plotting genocide? It's in Trial. "The Federation is run by hypocrites and supported by fools. I'm glad to be rid of it."

That was *it*, baby. The moment when it changed for him. When it became larger than Blake for Travis.

When ending the corruption was his psychosis.

Er. Anyway.

EDIT: So, been thinking about this all night.

The other thing that struck me is this: Travis doesn't view the Federation as the Ruling Class, and the Oppressed, like Blake does. He sees it as one entity. As far as he's concerned, to destroy the hypocrisy and lies and general degeneracy, he has to level *everything*.

To wipe it out and begin at the beginning. If there even is a beginning. And how do we know that the Andromedans weren't any more logical? They seemed perfectly happy to come in and do the mopping up.

...hrm. Anyway.

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I know the line, and the parallel later to Parr - "We weren't all hypocrites, were we?" (So he does still see a dichotomy in the Federation, at least for some time after that, I think.) I know there's a huge subplot of Travis turning against the corruption in the Federation that really comes to a head there in Trial, but I still think it's a big jump from that to total genocide of all human(oid) life. Throughout his disillusionment there are people he protects, and even the episode before "Star One", he might be considering using Star One to rule rather than destroying Star One to level. It might be a logical character development, but it seems like at least several episodes of character development were missing between the end of Gambit and the start of Star One.

Ugh. Tired now. Sleep.