| rdfs:comment | - "Diamond Dogs" is a cover song by Duran Duran, released on the Japanese edition of the covers album Thank You by Capitol-EMI on 4 April 1995.
- Rover is a medium-sized dog, and the leader of the trio. His two followers are Fido, a large-sized dog and Spot, who is a bulldog like small dog. Rover is voiced by Scott McNeil, Fido is voiced by Garry Chalk, and Spot is voiced by Lee Tockar. Their name is taken from David Bowie's album Diamond Dogs.".
- In their first case together, Detectives Mike Logan and Carolyn Barek chase down a jewelry store thief with severe anger-management issues.
- "Diamond Dogs" is the 619th episode of Casualty and the 29th episode of the 22nd series.
- "Diamond Dogs" is a story which appears in the collection Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days. It has been adapted for stage by the Shanghai Low theatre group in Chicago[1]. While Richard Swift is visiting the Monument to the Eighty in Chasm City, where he meets his old friend Roland Childe, who has been presumed dead for over a century and a half. Childe takes Richard back to his home, and reveals that he is assembling a team to tackle a curious artificial - alien - structure found by probes sent out secretly by his family ages ago.
- Diamond Dogs was a private military company led by Venom Snake around the 1980s. It was created as a result of the devastation of the Militaires Sans Frontières as well as the attack on Mother Base. At some point during the 1980s, Diamond Dogs managed to situate themselves on an offshore plant modeled after their former base given to them by the government of the Seychelles after they halted an attempted coup by South African mercenaries. The name stems from the group's profession as "dogs of war," who were willing to carry out unsavory jobs for clients, while at the same time maintaining pride in their work. Owing to their name, they also carried diamonds into battle, some converted from the cremated ashes of their fallen comrades, and collected raw diamonds for the funding of their Mothe
- Lauren Faust stated that the names the Diamond Dog leaders were given in the script are Rover, Fido and Spot. However, she didn't recall which ones have which name. Their identities have since been confirmed by the show's supervising director Jayson Thiessen, later by merchandise, and later still partly by promotional material. Rover, the medium-sized dog, is the leader of the trio, while Fido is the large-sized one and Spot is the small, bulldog-like one. Rover is voiced by Scott McNeil, Fido is voiced by Garry Chalk and Spot is voiced by Lee Tockar. Spot's name was previously used for a G1 puppy dog. The name "Diamond Dogs" is a reference to David Bowie's 1974 album of the same name.
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| abstract | - "Diamond Dogs" is a story which appears in the collection Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days. It has been adapted for stage by the Shanghai Low theatre group in Chicago[1]. While Richard Swift is visiting the Monument to the Eighty in Chasm City, where he meets his old friend Roland Childe, who has been presumed dead for over a century and a half. Childe takes Richard back to his home, and reveals that he is assembling a team to tackle a curious artificial - alien - structure found by probes sent out secretly by his family ages ago. The team consisted of Richard, Celestine (Richard's ex-wife who underwent Pattern Juggler neural transforms that left her with a brilliant capacity at mathematics, and who divorced Richard around 2490), Hirz (sometime hacker, sometime infiltrator, who has herself frozen between missions), Dr. Trintignant (expert doctor and cyberneticist, infamous for conducting horrific medical experiments on allegedly unconsenting subjects), Forqueray (an Ultranaut, captain of the lighthugger Apollyon) and, of course, Childe himself. From Chasm City, they travel to the alien artifact, which they promptly name "Blood Spire". Remains of the previous human explorers to visit the place lie around - supposedly they belonged to another Ultranaut crew led by a captain called Argyle, whom Childe's probe interrogated during his dying moments to gather information about the Spire. The Spire is a series of rooms, each containing a mathematical puzzle. The doors get smaller as the rooms progress, and the rooms proceed in a spiral up the tower, which is about 250 meters high. The tower, interestingly, floats off the surface of the planet without any detectable force or support holding it up. The puzzles cover most of mathematics, with various questions tackling triangular numbers, rotations of four-dimensional figures and their corresponding shadows, and arcane aspects of prime number theory. It is not known what the Spire guards, or why there should be so many puzzles. Disturbingly, the Spire also seems to be alive. Initially cold and silent, it "woke up" and started to warm up and vibrate once Childe's crew entered the structure. It also inflicts painful and often gruesome punishments for getting wrong answers or going over some unspecified time limit (which becomes shorter with each puzzle). Forqueray and Hirz are killed by these punishments. To deal with the Spire's puzzles, the team submit to more and more cybernetic and artificial aids from Trintignant, which eventually culminate with Childe and Richard resembling nothing so much as diamond dogs, with artificially-accelerated consciousness and an advanced grasp of mathematics. Celestine abandoned the quest earlier. While tackling the Spire, Celestine barges in and tries to persuade Richard to abandon the quest. Apparently, Childe knew more about the Spire than he should, and medical investigation of the corpses revealed all of them came from the same individual - because they had the same DNA. It's revealed that the bodies were actually clones of Childe, who had already visited the place before, and what he did was to go in, get to where he thought he could not go on much further, and then have his memories trawled and implanted into a clone, before returning to continue solving the puzzles, and die of failure. Counting the original, the Childe then in the Spire with Richard and Celestine was the nineteenth in the series. Finally, Richard abandons the quest only to find that Dr. Trintignant, confronted with the possibility of restoring Richard to his human form and thus undoing his magnum opus, decided to commit suicide by disassembly. There was surprisingly little organic matter left among his remains, which were all sorted and placed neatly in jars and the like. Richard and Celestine end up going back to post-plague Yellowstone - when they left they could not find any new remains of Childe, who was thus presumably still inside the Spire - and Richard is left without any hope of becoming human again, since the Melding Plague wiped out most of the required technology. In the end, Richard, faced with the sheer temptation and curiosity of the Spire, secretly slips away and hires the lighthugger Poseidon to take him "somewhere".
- Diamond Dogs was a private military company led by Venom Snake around the 1980s. It was created as a result of the devastation of the Militaires Sans Frontières as well as the attack on Mother Base. At some point during the 1980s, Diamond Dogs managed to situate themselves on an offshore plant modeled after their former base given to them by the government of the Seychelles after they halted an attempted coup by South African mercenaries. The name stems from the group's profession as "dogs of war," who were willing to carry out unsavory jobs for clients, while at the same time maintaining pride in their work. Owing to their name, they also carried diamonds into battle, some converted from the cremated ashes of their fallen comrades, and collected raw diamonds for the funding of their Mother Base. Besides engaging in combat and various mercenary jobs, the Diamond Dogs also retrieved various animals for an environmental NGO. The Diamond Dogs' practice of carrying diamonds into battle began after an outbreak of parasites occurred, which resulted in Venom Snake being forced to kill a large number of his comrades. After the incident, the cremated bodies' ashes were turned into diamonds. At some point, the Diamond Dogs had decided to follow the world's example of disarming their own nukes. Their first attempt at disarming a nuke had the nuclear material rupture, also irradiating several men in 100 rads and had to be hospitalized as a result, although they had nonetheless contained the leak and presumably put it in cold storage. Eventually, they needed to grow stronger to ensure nukes were eliminated, requiring development of several armored vehicles, with Ocelot noting the irony that they had to expand the war effort to eliminate nukes. Diamond Dogs was ultimately succeeded by the mercenary nation of Outer Heaven, some time prior to 1995.
- "Diamond Dogs" is a cover song by Duran Duran, released on the Japanese edition of the covers album Thank You by Capitol-EMI on 4 April 1995.
- Rover is a medium-sized dog, and the leader of the trio. His two followers are Fido, a large-sized dog and Spot, who is a bulldog like small dog. Rover is voiced by Scott McNeil, Fido is voiced by Garry Chalk, and Spot is voiced by Lee Tockar. Their name is taken from David Bowie's album Diamond Dogs.".
- In their first case together, Detectives Mike Logan and Carolyn Barek chase down a jewelry store thief with severe anger-management issues.
- Lauren Faust stated that the names the Diamond Dog leaders were given in the script are Rover, Fido and Spot. However, she didn't recall which ones have which name. Their identities have since been confirmed by the show's supervising director Jayson Thiessen, later by merchandise, and later still partly by promotional material. Rover, the medium-sized dog, is the leader of the trio, while Fido is the large-sized one and Spot is the small, bulldog-like one. Rover is voiced by Scott McNeil, Fido is voiced by Garry Chalk and Spot is voiced by Lee Tockar. Spot's name was previously used for a G1 puppy dog. The name "Diamond Dogs" is a reference to David Bowie's 1974 album of the same name. Their voices and some of their mannerisms appear to be based off and inspired by the character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.
- "Diamond Dogs" is the 619th episode of Casualty and the 29th episode of the 22nd series.
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