Classically, Boskone was the tool of the Eddore, and Gray Roger was a 'form of flesh' of Gharlane of Eddore. Would I be reading too much into Dr. Asmodeus Grey having escaped? Did he secretly believe he was/is Gray Roger?
Is the 'good doctor' now building his clone army, created using the Catgirling Machine Mark 2? Is one of the alien races contacted in fact a creation of his? Does Grey have a superintelligent AI that the Professor built, somehow enslaved? All of the above?
There are a number of missing bad guys, still. They are likely to have both short-term and long-term plans. Destabilising Stellvia to help get access to the (somewhat misnamed) full Whole Fenspace Catalog would be pretty obvious. Breaking up relationships between the various groups that might oppose them is also on the cards.
I'd expect a covert takeover of CHOAM, by neo-Boskone, so they get economic muscle. Also, an attempt to subvert the Solar Bank. Trying to replace O'Niell with an android double might be one approach, maybe with the original "on ice" linked by almost untraceable FTL, so the behaviour is correct, just a bit edited.
Further out, hiding a base, say within the atmosphere of Jupiter, maybe the other gas giants. Activity in the Oort Cloud. Maybe a base near a brown dwarf star within a workable distance of Sol.
Attempts to subvert the Interweave, with an immense array of sub-sentient AIs. Introducing a "Man On Horseback" who will "solve all the problems of Fenspace", and who is allegedly a First Fen who disappeared quite a while ago, to "rethink his life".
Fenspace must be able to do more than just dissolve into inter-faction politics!
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Is the 'good doctor' now building his clone army, created using the Catgirling Machine Mark 2? Is one of the alien races contacted in fact a creation of his? Does Grey have a superintelligent AI that the Professor built, somehow enslaved? All of the above?
There are a number of missing bad guys, still. They are likely to have both short-term and long-term plans. Destabilising Stellvia to help get access to the (somewhat misnamed) full Whole Fenspace Catalog would be pretty obvious. Breaking up relationships between the various groups that might oppose them is also on the cards.
I'd expect a covert takeover of CHOAM, by neo-Boskone, so they get economic muscle. Also, an attempt to subvert the Solar Bank. Trying to replace O'Niell with an android double might be one approach, maybe with the original "on ice" linked by almost untraceable FTL, so the behaviour is correct, just a bit edited.
Further out, hiding a base, say within the atmosphere of Jupiter, maybe the other gas giants. Activity in the Oort Cloud. Maybe a base near a brown dwarf star within a workable distance of Sol.
Attempts to subvert the Interweave, with an immense array of sub-sentient AIs. Introducing a "Man On Horseback" who will "solve all the problems of Fenspace", and who is allegedly a First Fen who disappeared quite a while ago, to "rethink his life".
Fenspace must be able to do more than just dissolve into inter-faction politics!
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind