very quick question about Alias

[onizuka]

in the first season there's that organisation that's always refered to as FTL. what the heck does FTL stand for?

[Chiasm]

FTL is a former crime organization; another enemy of SD-6 and of the United States.

Now extinct, FTL was fronted at the Tyno-Chem Engineering headquarters, based in Hong Kong. Former FTL bases were located in Morocco (Rabat) and Shaneer, with transfer facilities in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK.

In late 2001, Sydney and Dixon recovered a code machine from a London art gallery, managed and owned by FTL operative John Smythe, in order to read a private FTL communiqué. When SD-6 needed the recipient's thumbprint DNA-decryption to do so, Sydney helped locate the corpse of Gareth Parkashoff -- traced with the aid of exiled assassin Martin Shepard, in an asylum in Romania -- the man who murdered and buried Parkashoff.

Until this year, FTL was led by Quan Li, who was publicly executed by Khasinau's aide, Mr. Sark, during "The Man's" terrorism spree which resulted in the takeover -- simultaneously -- of SD-6 as well.


I didn't write that myself. Got it from an Alias site.

[onizuka]

FTL is a former crime organization; another enemy of SD-6 and of the United States.

Now extinct, FTL was fronted at the Tyno-Chem Engineering headquarters, based in Hong Kong. Former FTL bases were located in Morocco (Rabat) and Shaneer, with transfer facilities in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK.

In late 2001, Sydney and Dixon recovered a code machine from a London art gallery, managed and owned by FTL operative John Smythe, in order to read a private FTL communiqué. When SD-6 needed the recipient's thumbprint DNA-decryption to do so, Sydney helped locate the corpse of Gareth Parkashoff -- traced with the aid of exiled assassin Martin Shepard, in an asylum in Romania -- the man who murdered and buried Parkashoff.

Until this year, FTL was led by Quan Li, who was publicly executed by Khasinau's aide, Mr. Sark, during "The Man's" terrorism spree which resulted in the takeover -- simultaneously -- of SD-6 as well.


I didn't write that myself. Got it from an Alias site.
yes but what does its name FTL stand for? i'm beginning to think it doesn't stand for anything because i can't find any info on it anywhere.

thanks for the reply though.

[sschroeder]

yes but what does its name FTL stand for? i'm beginning to think it doesn't stand for anything because i can't find any info on it anywhere.

I don't remember if this was ever revealed. Even if it was, it would not be unusual to leave something like this as a mystery to the viewers for a while on the show.

Sometimes, in other places, FTL stands for Faster Than Light. I'd probably remember if they ever used it that way explicitly on Alias. So either it was revealed as something else, or it was never revealed and maybe we were supposed to assume it meant Faster Than Light. It may not even have roots in English, so that is speculation for sure.

[onizuka]

I don't remember if this was ever revealed. Even if it was, it would not be unusual to leave something like this as a mystery to the viewers for a while on the show.

Sometimes, in other places, FTL stands for Faster Than Light. I'd probably remember if they ever used it that way explicitly on Alias. So either it was revealed as something else, or it was never revealed and maybe we were supposed to assume it meant Faster Than Light. It may not even have roots in English, so that is speculation for sure.
i'm beginning to think that it really was never revealed, and even if it had non-english roots, i just wanted to know because they mentioned them so often i was just getting annoyed i didn't know what it was.

thanks you guys.