A favourite anecdote was, how unbelievably rude minor royals could be. There was more than one story about a famously boorish “spare” Prince. Nobo...y liked flying with him, it was never fun. More than once there was a suggestion that he may be sweating now that the FBI had linked him to a notorious American paedophile. There were stories of a much more personal nature too. Karen Hastings, a senior Purser, told of how furious she was when a last-minute roster change meant that she had to miss her. "I'm Kevin DeMarie, I'm actually Greg's best friend from home" he said introducing himself."Dan Gallant, I'm one of Greg's roommates." Dan said introducing himself."Alright then." I said chuckling. "What are we doing? Oh shit, it's payday, how bout we get our checks so we can go to the bank first." I suggested.Dan and Kevin agreed, and we ran up to the administration building and received our pay checks for the past week. Then the three of us ran down to my car and all piled in. We drove off to. Emily, even more alert, turned to me. I waved a red kerchief from behind my own tree.“Who are you, and what do you want?” This woman knew who she was, and what she was about. And, from the tone of her voice, she was not about to be trifled with.“It’s me, Mark. I’m back from my look see.”“Show yourself, hands empty, and away from your body!”No fool, I did so.“Oh, Mark! Thank God you’re back! I’ve been startled by every little noise! What did you find?”I turned to our guest. “Is she. Launch all fighters and bombers. Activate anti-missile defense."The one million ton light cruiser heeled to starboard, unmasking all its weapons, and then all three hundred light lasers opened fire on the incoming barrage of missiles. While the railguns started firing on the enemy ships, they moved into the killing zone and the first of five thousand weapons platforms opened fire.The first barrage smashed into the destroyer Reprisal, and took out the destroyer's bow weapons. Explosions.