Grrl Power #1357 - Highway to the sapphic zone? (Patreon)

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Of all the myriad planets for Dabbler to be familiar with off the top of her head, she knew that Sol 3 was Earth mostly because Cora is human. Terrans are not a huge population in the larger space society, but a few of them have made marks that put humanity on the "Races to Know" list.

It does sound egocentric, but Max is extrapolating that if Hoss knew enough to know about superpowers, then he definitely knew about supers in general, even though people like herself were classified at the time. He told Dabbler to go through a specific gate, knowing it would spit her out in the middle of a multinational conflict that involved supers, and he knew Dabbler's M.O. well enough, then it was a foregone conclusion that would involve herself with the leadership of said conflict quickly.

To paraphrase a Tom Baker Doctor Who episode; Guard, "I'm taking you to the Captain!" The Doctor, "Excellent idea! No messing about with middle management. Straight to the top! I'll lead!"

I might be concatenating several interactions there, but there's a reason Tom Baker was hands down the best Doctor. Dabbler's version might have been more along the lines of, "Take me to your sexiest leader!"

The Cradle of Civilization to me means either Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt, which is a fairly western point of view, as ancient China had a lot going on as well. I'm just reporting my own biases here. Maxima's biases trend toward Mesopotamia, because she was stationed there, and maybe visited Egypt while she was in the area, but was never stationed there. Also she speaks passable... shoot, I can't remember if I said it was Arabic or Farsi. I think it was Arabic.

Oh, and I want to be clear that while Mesopotamia covered areas that are now modern day Iran, and Iraq as well as Syria, Kuwait and Turkey, Max never operated in Iran during Desert Storm 2. Not officially, certainly. She might have flown over their airspace quite a bit, but a human sized object wrapped in a cotton/nylon BDU blend probably doesn't provide a significant radar return.