First CaptainHere are relevant references from the Books where First Captain is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban She wanted to be first girl, but I had kept her primarily with my men. Beautiful, dark-haired, slender, marvelously-legged Midice was, in my house, first girl, my favored slave. As Tab was my first Captain. In time I might become first captain in the Council of Captains. And who knew what political occurrences might take place in Port Kar? I was popular in the city. Perhaps in time there would again be a Ubar in Port Kar. "You are now first captain in Port Cos, are you not?" I asked Calliodorus. He had been captain of the valiant Tais. I assumed, with the fall of Callisthenes, that the mantle and helmet of the first captain would surely devolve upon him. "Both Port Cos and Ar's Station fought on the river, in terrible and bloody battles, hull to hull. After the final victor over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C.A. the parts of the stone came into the keeping of Calliodorus, a that time acting first captain in Port Cos, and Aemilianus who was at that time commander of the naval forces of Ar' Station. The pledge was renewed privately between them, think, as comrades in arms, as Ar's Station was not permitted by Ar to join the Vosk League." There she had come within the cognizance of a slaver, Samos, First Captain in the Council of Captains of Port Kar. I was being conducted, as I learned, to the house of Samos, who was First Captain in the Council of Captains. On the other hand, I was not brought to Samos in connection with any business having to do with the Council of Captains. I was brought to him, rather, I gathered, because it was not clear what was to be done with me, and because Samos, aside from being First Captain in the Council of Captains, was also First Slaver of Port Kar. "He is of a smitten village, Nicosia, on Chios?" said Nicomachos, dark-haired, and impatient of manner, First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, Thera, Chios, and Daphna, leaning forward, an action which caused the medallion and chain of his office to slide on the surface of the table, inlaid in such a way, with colored glass and stones, as to constitute a map of the Farther Islands and their adjacent waters. "And I have heard rumors," said Archelaos, unpleasantly, "that even the First Captain of Sybaris, Nicomachos, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, has profited from such clandestine emoluments." But, ela, Talena, even at the World's End, had been recognized by one of the most tenacious of her pursuers, fierce, skilled Seremides, a master of the sword, formerly First Captain in the Taurentian guard, the pledged police of the Central Cylinder in Ar, who had been a colleague in her treason, and an abettor of her crimes, himself now, too, a fugitive from the justice of Ar. It was hard to think of the proud, arrogant, aristocratic Seremides, once lofty in Ar, once the First Captain of the Taurentians, even condescending to visit such a place, let alone making it his dwelling. And it was in the district of Porus, surely one of the shabbiest in Jad! Two were later identified for me, Hermanus, currently first sword in the Taurentian Guard, the Palace Guard, and Marcus Rufus, First Captain of the City Guard of Ar. Two others were Hermanus, first sword in the Taurentian Guard, which is the Palace Guard, and Marcus Rufus, who was First Captain of the City Guard of Ar. |
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