Sorry for not replying to your reply before now, but I've spent the past two weeks rereading most of the Seafort Saga.

Damn, I really feel like fic now too...

I agree with you about the Philip Tyre thing being a fiasco. I guess I prefer to remember the Alexi of Prisoner's Hope, trying to start over again.

Oh yes, Nick was totally unreasonable at demoting Tolliver, and I think it was the same impulsive overreaction as his suspension of Vax after the first encounter with the fish. A pity that this time there was no one to set him straight about his behaviour.

I like that, in a world where most people seem to worship or despise Nick, Tolliver seems immune from the effects of that aura, and treats him like a mortal man. With most everyone else, I get the feeling Nick could overwhelm their judgment with the force of his moral certainty, but Tolliver won't hesitate to tell Nick when he's being an ass. So it's much more a relationship of equals. (And even Nick says, in Children of Hope, "We bicker like an old married couple.")

I may explode if someone doesn't write this soon. Or give up and do it myself...

You'll have at least one keen reader if you do. XD