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* From: James Gibbon
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Subject: Re: [SHADO] Skydivers`
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* "Anthony Lazenby"
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* Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many Skydiver Subs
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there are? Sky 4 was refered too in PSYCHOBOMBS.
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* As far as
I know there's no definitive answer - But it seems
* to be implied in most of
the episodes that there is only one.
* Apart from PSYCHOBOMBS, we only ever
see Sky One involved in
* any of the action (although a 'replacement Sky One'
is shown
* in ORDEAL). In Reflections In The Water for example, the
task
* of wiping out a large number of incoming UFOs falls exclusively
*
to Sky One.
*
* However as you point out there are clearly at least
four
* SkyDivers in PSYCHOBOMBS, SkyDiver 4 being destroyed in
* that
episode. There's never a reference to a Sky 5 (or 6,
* or 7 ..) in any
episode though.
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* I think it makes more sense that SHADO would have a
large-ish
* fleet of SkyDivers - can't really hope to cover all the
potential
* UFO entry points into the atmosphere with just one. It
would
* take weeks for a conventional sub to get to a location on the
*
other side of the world, and even with 'sea skim' capability I
* guess it
would take days. It's possible I suppose that Sky One
* has an
improbable airborne range of tens of thousands of miles,
* but then why
bother to carry it round the world's oceans on the
* front of a submarine in
the first place? Might as well just keep
* it in an underground hangar
on some secret island or something.
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* However, I think that PSYCHOBOMBS
is a bit of an abberation,
* and for the majority of episodes we're supposed
to assume that
* there's only one Skydiver/Sky One.
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James
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In at least 2 other eps, "Identified", and CCAOK,
they refer
to "a fleet of submarines". From that I've always liked to
assume
that there was more than one, for the very good reasons
James
stated above. However, except for "Psychobombs", we never seem
to
see them.
That scene in "Reflections..."
really was a hoot, wasn't it
James???
Dave H.
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