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Perseus Bogg

The Space Corps are full of the handsome, daring, elite heroes that regularly save the World three times before breakfast, win major sporting tounaments single handedly mid-morning, have rugged workouts on death-defying assault courses in the afternoon before raising some money for charity, saving the World again and spending the rest of the evening successfully seducing beautiful women. Of course they go to bed early so they can save the World again the following day. Regrettably, when the gravest threat to Human existence appears, they all seem to be away snowboarding. The World will therefore have to rely on Cadet 908154Bogg.

Enthusiastic. Very enthusiastic. That, if nothing else, could be said of the least successful cadet in Space Corps history. Eager to please but lacking the ability to learn and the natural skills required to pass his training. Ultimately, his teachers feel they can take no more and they give Perseus what he wants. Excitement turns to indecison when his first space patrol duty takes him directly in to the embrace of the Vraagas fleet. He makes a (bad) judgement call, and then decides to appoint himself Ambassador, blissfully unaware that the Vraagas are about to invade Earth.

Ignorant or naive? Maybe a bit of both. These titles, if nothing else, could also be added to the enthusiastic tendencies of Perseus. The phrase ‘where fools rush in’ springs to mind although not to the Cadet’s mind of course. Very little ‘springs’ here. The  fate of the Earth rests in his hands.

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