http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/ A mailing list for fans of the sci-fi series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. The list is to enable fans of the sh Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:42 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5361 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5361 How many Dread Youth are there? There are the foot soldiers, the youth leaders and the overunits, but does that mean there are only three rankings of Dread Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:27:34 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5360 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5360 ... I wondered that myself. The only thing I can think of is that they set up hydroponic gardens in those tunnels they lived in. There'd be lots of rationing. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:53:28 GMT David Minter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5359 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5359 ... Same logic problem that persists with the resistance movement in the Terminator movies. Where do they get basic food when the machines are in control? Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:12:25 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5358 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5358 ... It's like that bit in Red Dawn when they go and attack convoys and get the gear from the enemy. ... With Dread trying for a global takeover, I wonder why Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:12:16 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5357 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5357 From what's been said onscreen, Jennifer escaped the Dread Youth, Jon and the team helped her get away from the Dread Youth -- I'm guessing they found her Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:03:10 GMT JTrevizo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5356 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5356 I would assume that part of the resistance cells goals were to find Dread convoys of food/clothes/supplies to capture and use for the people in the Passages Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:37:15 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5355 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5355 ... Ooooh, underground gardens. I like that idea! Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:34:36 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5354 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5354 ... How is Dread supplying his troops? There have to be tens of thousands of Dread Youth all over the planet. They've got to be fed, housed, trained, and none Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:28:45 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5353 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5353 ... Maybe there were other hydroponic gardens all over the continents? Even with just a little over 1 billion people, I'm guessing the majority were settled Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:22:52 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5352 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5352 ... 80 percent -- Dread was definitely busy. So a little number crunching -- let's round off the North American population to 500,000,000. That makes the total Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:07:38 GMT foxfiredesigns@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5351 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5351 Oooh, fun! This is the kind of thing that I always start wondering about. ... I want to say cut down by about 80 percent, at least in North America, but I'm Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:05:45 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5350 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5350 Sorry for the double post. My computer said the first one didn't go through. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:59:07 GMT ace_drake@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5349 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5349 Elves...yeah you remember those elves in the old fairy tales who made shoes and stuff for poor people. Maybe they sided with the humans...working in the sewers Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:58:40 GMT ace_drake@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5348 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5348 Elves...yeah you remember those elves in the old fairy tales who made shoes and stuff for poor people. Maybe they sided with the humans...working in the sewers Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:51:08 GMT windjammers_one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/captainpower/message/5347 Given the stark environment of the CP world, they still have a lot of "stuff." Food, clothes, leather items, etc. I've had a few questions wandering around my