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Inara and Sheydra were trained Companions, Inara still a member of the Guild in good standing,

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Sheydra established Training House,
but the pupils where not of the caliber needed for Registered Companions - Inara said they had no discipline, she was trained since early childhood, and these trainees were far too old for full training.

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Inara and Sheydra were trained Companions, Inara still a member of the Guild in good standing,

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well - that's debatable given dialoge in both the pilot and Bushwacked.

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Sheydra established Training House,
but the pupils where not of the caliber needed for Registered Companions - Inara said they had no discipline, she was trained since early childhood, and these trainees were far too old for full training.

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right - so who were they? The Guild trains from a young age - if Sheydra set up a training house in the rim then does she pay dues to the guild in the core? What makes this any different from Nandi's house of women?? Are there rival guilds etc.

OR - if too old for 'FULL' training perhaps (as with Geisha) there are differing types of companion... but watching the training footage - i aint convinced.

The more i look - the muddier it gets:)


Platonist, you seem to me to hit several nails on the head!:) There's a lot of intriguing and frustrating questions... also: did the Guild tell the Operative where Inara was? are they culpable in whatever damage the SWAT team did? etc

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Inara and Sheydra were trained Companions, Inara still a member of the Guild in good standing,

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well - that's debatable given dialoge in both the pilot and Bushwacked.

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Which dialogue? What disputes she is still a Registered Companion? In TTJ, The Sheriff checked several times her papers and documents - if she was no longer a RC, would they not have found out before releasing their catch (Mal & Zoe) to her? All of the episodes have her status as RC repeated - are you saying she is lying to everybody, she is no longer a RC? She gets appointments from her Registry status in the Guild - that's how her "respectable clients" find her. Are you saying this is all fabrication?

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Not disagreeing regarding her "running" or not, just that it should not affect her Registered status.

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An undercurrent of idea I detect is that it would somehow be less lucrative as an independently available RC compared to in House. Although she was reportedly very sought after in the Madrassa House, in a business sense that's not the best way to rake in the most dough.

Think about it - you're in a House with mutlitudes of other RCs. This is not like hookers today - they are not hard to find - but the House would be more inconvenient for most of the verse. An independent, on the other hand can go anywhere, choose anybody on hundreds of planets and moons, effectively without competition - while the Housemates are certainly in-House competition.

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Originally posted by HistoryPhil:


Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

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