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'''Prudent''' was a Pennsylvanian businessman based in Philadelphia whose company specialized in making aircraft and weapons. He was apparently a widow but had a daughter named [[Dorothy Prudent|Dorothy]]. A blustery but kindhearted man despite his chosen business, Prudent, while serving as a "guest" of [[Robur]], was horrified when he witnessed war first hand, watching first the destruction of a US ship, and then several British ones and finally two entire armies in Egypt at the hands of Robur. While he came to agree that war was an abomination he'd helped to perpetuate, he sided with [[John Strock]], refusing to accept Robur's brutish methods as morally right in his quest to end war by creating more of it. He eventually escaped along with his daughter and Strock. | '''Prudent''' was a Pennsylvanian businessman based in Philadelphia whose company specialized in making aircraft and weapons. He was apparently a widow but had a daughter named [[Dorothy Prudent|Dorothy]]. A blustery but kindhearted man despite his chosen business, Prudent, while serving as a "guest" of [[Robur]], was horrified when he witnessed war first hand, watching first the destruction of a US ship, and then several British ones and finally two entire armies in Egypt at the hands of Robur. While he came to agree that war was an abomination he'd helped to perpetuate, he sided with [[John Strock]], refusing to accept Robur's brutish methods as morally right in his quest to end war by creating more of it. He eventually escaped along with his daughter and Strock. | ||
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Revision as of 12:53, 5 July 2012
Prudent was a Pennsylvanian businessman based in Philadelphia whose company specialized in making aircraft and weapons. He was apparently a widow but had a daughter named Dorothy. A blustery but kindhearted man despite his chosen business, Prudent, while serving as a "guest" of Robur, was horrified when he witnessed war first hand, watching first the destruction of a US ship, and then several British ones and finally two entire armies in Egypt at the hands of Robur. While he came to agree that war was an abomination he'd helped to perpetuate, he sided with John Strock, refusing to accept Robur's brutish methods as morally right in his quest to end war by creating more of it. He eventually escaped along with his daughter and Strock.
