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 Question about Avon’s backstory
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| NerdyTeenGirl |
Posted on 28-01-2024 02:59
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Was it ever stated, or even hinted at, how much time was between Anna supposedly getting captured and Avon getting caught? I know a week passed before Avon woke up after being shot by the visa dealer, but I don’t know if he was caught soon after that or weeks, months, years later. I’m trying to figure out the timetables for his backstory for a fic I’m working on. If anyone knows, or even has any best guesses, please let me know!
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| Brad |
Posted on 28-01-2024 15:34
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AFAIK nothing is specifically stated, but if we take Blake's on-air story as a template, we can estimate only a few days pass between Avon's arrest and his conviction. Fascist regimes tend not to waste time on lengthy trials or concern themselves too much with due process. The one intangible is how often a ship like London makes the voyage to Cygnus Alpha. It would seem to be infrequent, as the cultists are looking for a sign (a new star in our heavens) rather than anticipating a regular timetable. Presumably the ever efficient Federation kept prisoners in holding cells until they had enough to fill every seat on a CAS prisoner transport ship like London.
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| Paula |
Posted on 28-01-2024 19:43
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I always took it as only days or less before Avon was caught and taken by the Federation. He states he was shot but sympathizers took him in and he was unconscious for a week before he awoke to hear they had taken Anna or he thought they took Anna in. So if you suppose that Avon left Anna to get the exit visas, shot the guy the same day- was found and helped for a week, then was able to function on his own and left his rescuers right after that, it would be a week or so and he'd have been picked up by the Federation and put in a cell and given a rushed fixed trial (especially given Anna's 'relationship' with the Federation as Bartolomew) we are talking a few weeks at most. The sooner the Federation got 'rid' of the problem, the better. Hence their easy way of getting rid of 'criminals' on Earth by shipping them to Cygnus Alpha. Hope this helps you and your story! Good luck.
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| NerdyTeenGirl |
Posted on 28-01-2024 21:41
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Thank you both so much, you’ve been extremely helpful! 
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| Anniew |
Posted on 02-02-2024 20:18
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From an article I wrote on Avon on this site. Not sure if it helps If there are problems in reckoning how many frauds Avon committed, there are problems too in assuming that he was sentenced to Cygnus Alpha for the Anna bank fraud. For example, Avon says that he knew Del Grant, Anna’s brother, ‘a long time ago’ and that the last time they met Del had promised to kill him, because he held Avon accountable for her death (Countdown). Yet Avon's sentence to Cygnus Alpha took place only about a year and a half prior to their meeting on Albian; hardly a long period of time. Avon tells Del that he had been shot and badly injured during the incident, and was unconscious for three days. We know he is not lying, because Anna doesn't dispute this when he mentions it in Rumours of Death. So for this to be the crime that led to Cygnus Alpha, he was either given time to recover fully before his trial, as he shows no signs of injury on the London, or there was a considerable delay between his trial and sentence. Blake's sentence seems to have followed almost immediately after his trial, but was this common practice or was it an exception because it was in the Administration's interest to get rid of him quickly? The wheels of the law can grind slowly due to lawyer interventions, with sentences carried out weeks or months after conviction. We see a potential example of such a ploy in Trial when Thania demands that details of each of the thousand victims of the Zircaster massacre be read out by the computer, prompting Arbiter Samor to protest: "Do you know how long that will take, Major?" However, we do not find out whether her request was granted and in any case, this was a military court martial, not a criminal trial, so the rules might have been different. If delays did occur between Avon's conviction and sentence, this would explain his lack of injuries on the London. However, I think that as Security needed to conceal Bartholomew's role in his arrest and maintain the pretence that 'Anna' had died under interrogation, it is more likely that the process would have been expedited, as it was in Blake's case. Even if this were not so, the Federation was hardly big on human rights and this, together with the fact that guilt or innocence was decided by Justice Machines rather than humans, would have made it difficult, if not impossible, for his lawyers to establish grounds for appeal and delay the process. Finally, in Rumours of Death, Anna claims that she let him go. This assertion would make more sense if she had arranged to have Avon watched rather than arrested, especially as we know that he used the visa to leave the city after he recovered, so he clearly wasn't arrested straight away. For all these reasons, I would argue that it is possible that the crime Avon committed with Tynus is a later one than the bank fraud, and that this was the one that led to his transportation sentence – especially since it would also have been Tynus' fate if Avon had implicated him. It is unlikely that Avon would have received a lesser sentence for the crime, so it could not have happened earlier. Play the hand fate deals you.
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| NerdyTeenGirl |
Posted on 03-02-2024 13:07
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That is very helpful, thank you so much!
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