exiledtoIA wrote:Is english a second language for you?
I understand exactly what she did.
She VIOLATED HER SWORN OATH. TWICE.
This is someone you hold up for adoration?
I will also point out she is an accessory to murder before the fact.
A real lovable person.
Honestly, White Havens appointment of her to run the RMN's
R&D programs causes me to have some doubts about him as well.
You have someone who KNOWINGLY and WILLING twice breaches the trust of an organization she volunteered to join.
And then you turn around and put the future of your weapons and ship developement , the very things that have kept your kingdom alive, in the hands of someone you KNOW will cave if the price is right.
I begin to think the SEM's next major problem will not come from an external threat - it will come from within.
roseandheather wrote:...wow. Your reading comprehension is even worse than I thought. You really are just pulling crap out of your arse now, aren't you?
Whoah. This needs to settle down. This is rapidly devolving into a shouting match.
I disagree with your analysis exiled, but I can see where you are coming from. I think you're looking at everything a little too black-and-white. It could also be argued (and was argued) that Honor violated multiple regulations, some very, very serious regulations, when she assumed command for Sarnow and didn't pass it down the line. Despite saving the squadron and winning the battle, she should have been court-martialed as well, with that logic.
As far as Sonja was concerned? I don't think she acted entirely properly, no. I think that the others who participated in the trial acted even worse. But, I don't see the same arguments for Admiral Jurgens or Commodore Lemaitre, who quite obviously were acting in a very political manner.
I think, like I stated before, that she had some very serious issues to sort through, and that she acted very strangely for her established character. I think she regrets her involvement in the entire affair, and it's something she's going to have to live with.
As far as her distaste for capital punishment? It's speculation, but it's possible that she felt against it. She also didn't feel that Young deserved to be in uniform. Dishonorable discharge isn't anything to scoff at. It's a humiliating experience. Short of prison time or death, it's the harshest punishment they could have given.
As far as the charge of murder after the fact? No. Paul was legally killed in a duel. Despite the shadiness that surrounded the duel, it was entirely, utterly legal for him to die in the way he did. Nor could anyone have suspected that Pavel Young would go so far out of his way to enact revenge. It never even crossed Honors mind, Youngs oldest enemy, that he would try something like that.
My point is that everyone makes mistakes, even huge errors in judgement. Some, like Youngs, are worth holding on to and prosecuting. Others, just really aren't. Young caused the deaths of thousands in his cowardice. Sonja might have been indirectly responsible at best for the death of Paul Tannerskly, but so was the rest of the Tribunal if that's the case. Even then, Young is the one who pulled the trigger by proxy, and is truly responsible for that death.