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Thinking of Nikki as a real person, it would be interesting to know what eventually became of him. However, most real people end up in a fairly humdrum existence. Even a career as a jump pilot wouldn’t necessarily be exciting, I suppose.
Unless you write something different for him, I'm going to enjoy picturing Nikki as one of those rare people who really does know, from childhood, what they want to do--and achieves it.
When I co-wrote Nikki in my mind, the disqualification was not that Vorjohn's thing interfered with the abilities of being a jump pilot, but that the Barrayaran military would not accept *any* mutant or mutation. Hence Miles steering him to commercial/civilian jump pilot as a career.
I thought I remembered a line in *Gentleman Jole* about Nikki being busy with jump-pilot training. But going back to check, it was busy with "school" - type unspecified.
Somewhere in "Komarr" after Nikki's treatment Miles asks Ekaterine "Is it well? [with Nikki's treatment]? She explains that Nikki had a complete and clean uptake of the retrogenes "as if he'd never had it" but, I think, his children would still need to be gene cleaned. As L said, it's not a given that he will still want to be a pilot, but the dystrophy is no longer an issue.
If I remember correctly, the issue was that it would prevent him from going into the service - NOT from becoming a civilian pilot. I'll have to reread the book (again, LOL) to be sure, but I could swear Miles knew of the Vorzohn's before he had a conversation with Nikki urging him to consider that option.
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Thinking of Nikki as a real person, it would be interesting to know what eventually became of him. However, most real people end up in a fairly humdrum existence. Even a career as a jump pilot wouldn’t necessarily be exciting, I suppose.
Unless you write something different for him, I'm going to enjoy picturing Nikki as one of those rare people who really does know, from childhood, what they want to do--and achieves it.
When I co-wrote Nikki in my mind, the disqualification was not that Vorjohn's thing interfered with the abilities of being a jump pilot, but that the Barrayaran military would not accept *any* mutant or mutation. Hence Miles steering him to commercial/civilian jump pilot as a career.
I thought I remembered a line in *Gentleman Jole* about Nikki being busy with jump-pilot training. But going back to check, it was busy with "school" - type unspecified.
Somewhere in "Komarr" after Nikki's treatment Miles asks Ekaterine "Is it well? [with Nikki's treatment]? She explains that Nikki had a complete and clean uptake of the retrogenes "as if he'd never had it" but, I think, his children would still need to be gene cleaned. As L said, it's not a given that he will still want to be a pilot, but the dystrophy is no longer an issue.
If I remember correctly, the issue was that it would prevent him from going into the service - NOT from becoming a civilian pilot. I'll have to reread the book (again, LOL) to be sure, but I could swear Miles knew of the Vorzohn's before he had a conversation with Nikki urging him to consider that option.
