> This has always bothered me: How come the three musketeers are /never/
> seen holding muskets? What is /that/ about??
>

The Musketeers were a militia serving the King.  Athos, Portos and 
Aramis were full-fledged members of that militia, and D'Artagnan was a 
young kid from the country who was tired of fixing the water 
condensators on his uncle's farm and wanted to join the Space Academy. 
No wait! Wrong story!

The muskets - from which this militia gets its name - were kept at the 
garrison.  Just like today's military do not walk around with their 
assault rifles all the time but.

> While I'm here... It seems there are two types of villain too. Some of
> them are just monsters. Purest evil. The kind that nobody could possibly
> like. But it seems that all the /best/ villains are at least partially
> likeable. Perhaps you understand what drove them to do it. Or maybe
> they're just charismatic, even hypnotic. But the best ones all have
> something about them...

Yep.  Everyone thinks Darth Vader is cool.  No one thinks that of Jabba 
The Hut.

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