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If nothing else, Loomp seems pretty practical.
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Professor Festus Loomp sat at their desk, hands folded, and spoke to Picknar and Thoos who sat on the office couch. Loomp said, “There will be no surgery, nothing invasive but in the end, Thoos, your consciousness and thoughts will be in Picknar’s body, and vice versa.” Loomp pointed at them emphatically, “and you will be the first I’ve tried this on, so there is some risk. Not only of the transferring, if it even works, but also in the transferring back. Which is why the compensation is so ridiculously generous.” Picknar asked, “is part of why you chose me because i didn’t put anyone down as a beneficiary if I die?” Looking slightly concerned, Thoos asked Picknar, “really? you didn’t either?” Looking away from them, Loomp said, “that, and… based on your personal history of friendships, no one would miss you.”
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So they were the closest thing to nobodies they could find. If the worst happens, there will be nobody left behind to sue, or ask questions.
@Carl, huh. I do seem to have a penchant for making sure my victims, cough, I mean “characters,” won’t be missed, don’t I? 🙂
Did Festus Loomp advise the stribs on which sort of people they should grab to raise their children?
Now that you say that, these guys seem like good surrogate parents to Strib children.
What c/o/u/l/d/ will go wrong? Or who? Someone we know is about to get swapped. Let it be Dustin.
Sure, but swapped with whom? A surface Mirghoot maybe?
Am I the only one thinking “In no conceivable universe would I ever agree to this.” Unless the other guy was more buff than me.
Something like one in two hundred people would agree with it if the other guy was a gal.
As I recall, at one point early in the space program, NASA did consider whether the personnel they would put in their manned craft should be bachelors. At that point, however, they hadn’t so much as lofted a chimpanzee, so they were especially cautious. They didn’t even refer to their flight personnel as ‘pilots’ yet.