I'm probably thinking of a movie then. I just remembered it was one of those type of things from that series. The hopelessness and despair of the guards was notable in my mind a decade or so later. Also one bad guy getting cut down a desacating in like 4 seconds screaming.
For the dropped lemon bits... technically you don't have to drop them completely... or actually write them. Just make them the rumour mill of the Jurian Royals. The Emporor visits after hearing his son ditched the Empire to have a centuries long orgy... and freaky things about him using that hot planet killer as a gimp. Something he keeps hearing people go on and on about... cutting off as they notice he noticed. One of the reasons he wants Yosho off that idiot planet... his wives don't actually believe it. The nobels not so much.
Again in one or both of first two series there is a bit abot these blob people. According to Washu, their claim to fame is that they are the only ones in the known glaxy willing to write and broadcast soap operas... which everyone wants to do but is too repressed to actually do. Though that may be from a fanfic... though the shows get amazing ratings... even though no one will admit to actually watching the show themselves from prim and properness. Earth has hundreds of these... one of which go back literally 75 years to pre-TV. With humaniods. Fear is if this gets out the empire will grind to a halt.---
Basically have the Jurian Court POV be some chapters... Yosho has been dodging these idiots for centuries for good reason... in which mad, elaborate stories of what they have decided is going and the Ruling Trio hearing about it and not being able counter it for reasons of the court at large lacking security clearance. These people are repressed and have way, way, way^347 to much time on their hands. However they aren't directly expendable as they can be assigned to planets with minor youma/youki issues.
Tenchi starts off as basically normal (for the series)... and then gets involved in a few other people's problems at random (mostly Tenchi and Ryoko), those two are occasionally sent to help out other groups.. offically unoffically as the Jurian contribution to events. Ones labled you-can't-actually-see-this-shade-of-black black ops. Ryoko and Tenshi are a battle couple as far as Earth and black ink on the virtual the same shade black out to nineteen points past the decimal point ops are concerned. Tenshi is considered a more modest Bond... with his own stupidly powerful Bond girl/assistant. Pity that no one told him (after all he obviously knows this fact)... and Tenshi helps out on his own with random equal level encounters semi-regularly. The only records of these things are mostly Ryoko's diary and her cabbit's logs.
The only remotely public records happen to be Mihoshi's paperwork and Kyone's paperwork. Part of Kyone's job is installing the cliffnotes in Mihoshi's paperwork... Mihoshi is infamos for writing 4-5 hundred pages on a traffic stop. She has an amazing attention to detail and no filters for what is actually important. People reading these have actually advanced engine technolgy by years with her observations. Actual combat missions generate documentation dozens of times the length of War and Peace completely in stream of conciousness formatt. Their bosses are actively prohibiting her from getting promoted as they did the math and her ability to translate and sum up Mihoshi level paperwork is irriplacable to the point that the super computer required to translate the paperwork at the same level would take up the budget for decades and get broken in less than a month. Regulations state that your partner must read over your paperwork before it is handed in after all. Kyone was doomed the second she decided to pass the academy and got Mihoshi as a roommate. The reason their patrol ship has such a good/advanced AI is that its required to run spell check and grammar check.on said megareports... the manhunt for the people that keep sending Mihoshi those deeply picky thesauruses continue.---Keep in mind that we are talking about a Tenshi involved in events like the Galaxia incident... Galaxia travels via asteriod base and enters the system at sublight speeds from decades or centuries out. She is ultra dangerous but travels so slowly you can't specically defend against her, because she takes so long getting anywhere. She headed for Earth thinking is was still the capital of an Empire. She is ultra dangerous and does collect the planets super weapon(s) and kills everyone in system... though she is one of a bajillion planet killers, one of the most humanlike. Ryoko and Tenshi are convinced she is off her meds and a bit brain damaged (not evil herself). No one told them she was an intersystem empire capital world killer... then again Ryoko may know and not really care about that... she raided the Jurian capital after all. She was just sad to see the state of what is basically one of her peers/ (ex)professional cohorts.
Mentioning that poor Galaxia and rumors of Tenshi flattening the Emperor's chosen, sword prodigy, fiance for Ayeka without even drawing his weapon are the like are going to give him a major rep... add in the rumors about Earth floating around... and...
For the dropped lemon bits... technically you don't have to drop them completely... or actually write them. Just make them the rumour mill of the Jurian Royals. The Emporor visits after hearing his son ditched the Empire to have a centuries long orgy... and freaky things about him using that hot planet killer as a gimp. Something he keeps hearing people go on and on about... cutting off as they notice he noticed. One of the reasons he wants Yosho off that idiot planet... his wives don't actually believe it. The nobels not so much.
Again in one or both of first two series there is a bit abot these blob people. According to Washu, their claim to fame is that they are the only ones in the known glaxy willing to write and broadcast soap operas... which everyone wants to do but is too repressed to actually do. Though that may be from a fanfic... though the shows get amazing ratings... even though no one will admit to actually watching the show themselves from prim and properness. Earth has hundreds of these... one of which go back literally 75 years to pre-TV. With humaniods. Fear is if this gets out the empire will grind to a halt.---
Basically have the Jurian Court POV be some chapters... Yosho has been dodging these idiots for centuries for good reason... in which mad, elaborate stories of what they have decided is going and the Ruling Trio hearing about it and not being able counter it for reasons of the court at large lacking security clearance. These people are repressed and have way, way, way^347 to much time on their hands. However they aren't directly expendable as they can be assigned to planets with minor youma/youki issues.
Tenchi starts off as basically normal (for the series)... and then gets involved in a few other people's problems at random (mostly Tenchi and Ryoko), those two are occasionally sent to help out other groups.. offically unoffically as the Jurian contribution to events. Ones labled you-can't-actually-see-this-shade-of-black black ops. Ryoko and Tenshi are a battle couple as far as Earth and black ink on the virtual the same shade black out to nineteen points past the decimal point ops are concerned. Tenshi is considered a more modest Bond... with his own stupidly powerful Bond girl/assistant. Pity that no one told him (after all he obviously knows this fact)... and Tenshi helps out on his own with random equal level encounters semi-regularly. The only records of these things are mostly Ryoko's diary and her cabbit's logs.
The only remotely public records happen to be Mihoshi's paperwork and Kyone's paperwork. Part of Kyone's job is installing the cliffnotes in Mihoshi's paperwork... Mihoshi is infamos for writing 4-5 hundred pages on a traffic stop. She has an amazing attention to detail and no filters for what is actually important. People reading these have actually advanced engine technolgy by years with her observations. Actual combat missions generate documentation dozens of times the length of War and Peace completely in stream of conciousness formatt. Their bosses are actively prohibiting her from getting promoted as they did the math and her ability to translate and sum up Mihoshi level paperwork is irriplacable to the point that the super computer required to translate the paperwork at the same level would take up the budget for decades and get broken in less than a month. Regulations state that your partner must read over your paperwork before it is handed in after all. Kyone was doomed the second she decided to pass the academy and got Mihoshi as a roommate. The reason their patrol ship has such a good/advanced AI is that its required to run spell check and grammar check.on said megareports... the manhunt for the people that keep sending Mihoshi those deeply picky thesauruses continue.---Keep in mind that we are talking about a Tenshi involved in events like the Galaxia incident... Galaxia travels via asteriod base and enters the system at sublight speeds from decades or centuries out. She is ultra dangerous but travels so slowly you can't specically defend against her, because she takes so long getting anywhere. She headed for Earth thinking is was still the capital of an Empire. She is ultra dangerous and does collect the planets super weapon(s) and kills everyone in system... though she is one of a bajillion planet killers, one of the most humanlike. Ryoko and Tenshi are convinced she is off her meds and a bit brain damaged (not evil herself). No one told them she was an intersystem empire capital world killer... then again Ryoko may know and not really care about that... she raided the Jurian capital after all. She was just sad to see the state of what is basically one of her peers/ (ex)professional cohorts.
Mentioning that poor Galaxia and rumors of Tenshi flattening the Emperor's chosen, sword prodigy, fiance for Ayeka without even drawing his weapon are the like are going to give him a major rep... add in the rumors about Earth floating around... and...