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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The story was | * The story was only released as a download. | ||
* An alternate ending, "Version Two", was also made available with purchase of the [[Magic Bullet Productions]] story ''The Time Waster''; in it, one of Iago's mentioned pseudonyms is "Frank Archer", [[Paul Darrow]]'s character from ''The Time Waster''. | |||
* The title of the story, meaning a fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the story's artificially, refers to the idea that [[Kaston Iago]] might in fact be Kerr Avon from ''[[Blake's 7 (series)|Blake's 7]]'', and as such the story plays with the listener's expectation of this. (See notes section in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Occam's Razor (audio story)|Occam's Razor]]'' for additional reasons as to why this might be so.) | * The title of the story, meaning a fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the story's artificially, refers to the idea that [[Kaston Iago]] might in fact be Kerr Avon from ''[[Blake's 7 (series)|Blake's 7]]'', and as such the story plays with the listener's expectation of this. (See notes section in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Occam's Razor (audio story)|Occam's Razor]]'' for additional reasons as to why this might be so.) | ||
* The final seconds of the story can be interpreted as a '[[Fourth wall|breaking of the fourth wall]]'. This is supported by [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prisoner (audio story)|The Prisoner]]'' in which both stories feature characters seemingly aware they are part of a fictional world. | * The final seconds of the story can be interpreted as a '[[Fourth wall|breaking of the fourth wall]]'. This is supported by [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prisoner (audio story)|The Prisoner]]'' in which both stories feature characters seemingly aware they are part of a fictional world. | ||
* One | * "Version One" follows directly from ''[[Death's Head (audio story)|Death's Head]]'', with Iago speaking with [[Justina Kessel]]; in contrast, "Version Two" is set between ''[[Storm Mine (audio story)|Storm Mine]]'' and ''[[The Prisoner (audio story)|The Prisoner]]'', with Iago speaking to a facet of the [[Fendahl]].<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/kaldorcity/posts/pfbid02ARmBGoPkexoNuFdX4QnYEYXipb93YxVpNZuaiVqibB6MVWUHkKJnYeYZcvGRRerzl Magic Bullet Productions on Facebook: "A firm timeline for the events of Kaldor City."]</ref> | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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** Iago's starship could travel at "standard speed". One standard unit is about half a time distort unit, or possibly two thirds of a time distort unit. Iago doesn't know how fast a time distort unit is, as it's not his field. (In'' Blake's 7'', it was never specified what "standard speed" meant. The Federation used a "time distort" scale.) | ** Iago's starship could travel at "standard speed". One standard unit is about half a time distort unit, or possibly two thirds of a time distort unit. Iago doesn't know how fast a time distort unit is, as it's not his field. (In'' Blake's 7'', it was never specified what "standard speed" meant. The Federation used a "time distort" scale.) | ||
** [[Roj Blake|The revolutionary]] said he'd been wrongly convicted, but most of the prisoners Iago met also said they'd been wrongly convicted. Iago was seemingly the only genuine criminal there. | ** [[Roj Blake|The revolutionary]] said he'd been wrongly convicted, but most of the prisoners Iago met also said they'd been wrongly convicted. Iago was seemingly the only genuine criminal there. | ||
** Along with his fellow crew members, Iago | ** Along with his fellow crew members, Iago | ||
*** | *** liberated a group of dwarfs whose oppressor was another dwarf in a tank; ([[w:c:blakes7:The Web (episode)|A5: ''The Web'']]) | ||
*** | *** shut down an operation involving an enslaved population forced to mine a radioactive substance known as [[Monopasium 239]]; ([[w:c:blakes7:Horizon (episode)|B4: ''Horizon'']]) | ||
*** | *** instigated a war shortly afterwards with an alien battlefleet from another galaxy bent on [[genocide]], resulting in the death of billions; ([[w:c:blakes7:Star One (episode)|B13: ''Star One'']]<ref name="CB">An episode written by [[Chris Boucher]], who served as creative advisor for the ''[[Kaldor City (audio series)|Kaldor City]]'' series.</ref>); | ||
*** | *** stole some energy crystals from a mine which turned out to be fake, after departing from their firebrand leader; ([[w:c:blakes7:Games (episode)|D8: ''Games'']]) | ||
*** | *** accquired a vast amount money which turned out to worthless; ([[w:c:blakes7:Gold (episode)|D10: ''Gold'']]) | ||
*** | *** visited a planet whose entire surface was covered in sentient sand; ([[w:c:blakes7:Sand (episode)|D9: ''Sand'']]) | ||
*** | *** blew up a huge glitter-ball hanging in space containing a gigantic brain with all the knowledge of the universe; ([[w:c:blakes7:Ultraworld (episode)|C10: ''Ultraworld'']]) | ||
*** | *** travelled deep into the twelfth sector and blew up the people who had built their starship, and blew up their craft's identical sister-ship; ([[w:c:blakes7:Redemption (episode)|B1: ''Redemption'']]) | ||
*** | *** were approached by an outside party to rescue a scientist from his employer, but ended up rescuing a killer robot duplicate by mistake; ([[w:c:blakes7:Headhunter (episode)|D6: ''Headhunter'']]) | ||
*** | *** blew up an experiment on the edge of the sixth sector to reveal the ultimate destiny of the human race, ([[w:c:blakes7:Terminal (episode)|C13: ''Terminal'']]) which Iago says is to [[evolve]] back into [[monkey]]s; and | ||
*** | *** crash-landed their second ship on the [[frontier world|frontier planet]] [[Gauda Prime]], where they encountered their former leader. ([[w:c:blakes7:Blake (episode)|D13: ''Blake'']]<ref name="CB" />) | ||
** Iago believes Freedom City was blown up during the war, ([[w:c:blakes7:Gambit (episode)|B11: ''Gambit'']]) along with Space City. ([[w:c:blakes7:Shadow (episode)|B2: ''Shadow'']]<ref name="CB" />) | ** Iago believes Freedom City was blown up during the war, ([[w:c:blakes7:Gambit (episode)|B11: ''Gambit'']]) along with Space City. ([[w:c:blakes7:Shadow (episode)|B2: ''Shadow'']]<ref name="CB" />) | ||
** On Gauda Prime, moments after Iago's entire crew were killed, he himself was surrounded by a force of fifty heavily armed Federation Guards. ([[w:c:blakes7:Blake (episode)|D13: ''Blake'']]<ref name="CB" />) He escaped by shooting out the lights in the room. | ** On Gauda Prime, moments after Iago's entire crew were killed, he himself was surrounded by a force of fifty heavily armed Federation Guards. ([[w:c:blakes7:Blake (episode)|D13: ''Blake'']]<ref name="CB" />) He escaped by shooting out the lights in the room. | ||
** After Gauda Prime, Iago busied himself with gunrunning, taking on contract work as a mercenary, and organising the occasional revolution. ( | ** After Gauda Prime, Iago busied himself with gunrunning, taking on contract work as a mercenary, and organising the occasional revolution. (''Blake's 7'' fan audio ''The Logic of Empire''<ref>[http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios//b7/logic/logicscript.html ''The Logic of Empire'' script] at the [[Magic Bullet Productions]] website.</ref>) | ||
** The money Iago acquired during the bank-fraud disappeared before the war. For safe keeping, Iago arranged for the money to be transferred to a special account held aboard a space-station that had been constructed by a consortium of neutral planets, meaning that technically it existed outside of normal legal jurisdiction. However, his crew accidentally blew it up. ([[w:c:blakes7:Breakdown (episode)|A10: ''Breakdown'']]) | ** The money Iago acquired during the bank-fraud disappeared before the war. For safe keeping, Iago arranged for the money to be transferred to a special account held aboard a space-station that had been constructed by a consortium of neutral planets, meaning that technically it existed outside of normal legal jurisdiction. However, his crew accidentally blew it up. ([[w:c:blakes7:Breakdown (episode)|A10: ''Breakdown'']]) | ||
