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@dotjayne @jbqueru

Kinda obliquely related.

But it's such a sweet story, and it was well conveyed by Peter Jurasik, that I retell it whenever the slightest excuse arises.

Lando Mollari, an imperial Ambassador of the ancient and failing star Centari empire in "Babylon 5", tells a parable.

Of a child princess, who saw a tiny, pretty flower spring from between the stones of the parade ground.

Fearing it would get trampled by the troops, she placed a soldier to stand guard over the flower.

Years have passed.

The flower is long gone.

The princess is long gone.

The guard still stands there, in what seems to be a random spot on this huge parade square.

You can choose to look at it as a tale of bloody mindedness.

I, like Lando, think it's a beautiful tale of how purpose and order still prevails long after the need had gone.

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