exiledtoIA wrote:Somtaw, ( hope I spelled that right ).
Actually depending on how closely the RMN's Uniform Code of Military Justice follows current US and British versions Honor could be charged and courts-martialed.
There is a catchall Article in most countries UCMJ's about "Conduct Unbecoming".
This is used when somebody does something that doesn't quite fit other specific charges. It can also be used when they want to "pile-on".
Depending on how the ceasefire order was written Honor could possibly charged with violating a legal order from a superior officer.
We never see the text of the ceasefire so it could have forbidden an officer in the RMN from committing any action which could jeopardize the ceasefire.
most of which I accounted for. Also, as far as I understand it, people in today's modern militaries aren't allowed to hold commissions in other nations militaries. So Honor is one of a bare handful that are commissioned in multiple system militaries. That alone puts her into an absolutely tremendous 'gray area'. If she's commanding purely Grayson forces, then she's simply acting in her role as the senior space-faring Admiral in the Grayson Navy. Any orders she receives in her persona as an RMN Admiral simply do not apply, she's not acting as an RMN Admiral, as she's not commanding an RMN force.
And any courts martial, wouldn't be able to actually stick her with 'conduct unbecoming' or 'rejecting a superior officers orders', because she wasn't in that RMN superior officers chain of command. Janacek could have sent blistering orders to stand down until he died of apoplexy, and Honor could have cheerfully told him to "buzz off, I'm a Grayson Admiral commanding a Grayson force"
The only time Honor would get into severe issues, would be any of the Manticoran units in Eighth Fleet that decided to continue following the orders of the Grayson units. Then you get into a truly sticky situation, every ship captain who decided to keep following Grayson's attack orders just committed mutiny. And if Honor were giving them any form of orders, then she has also started acting in a manner that invites punishment.
In terms of attack force, we not only had the minor fact that Grayson was actually the largest contributor to Eighth Fleet, but they also had the Protector's Own, which Honor is also the permanent CO of. So if Grayson had 'withdrawn' from the Manticore Anti-Haven Alliance, and sent the Protector's Own unit forwards to merge with the Grayson units that made up Eighth Fleet. Grayson would have almost exactly as many ships as made up the entirety of Eighth Fleet, and call it the expanded Protector's Own. Being the permenent CO, Honor would be easily within her grounds to follow her liege lord Benjamin's orders to continue assaulting Haven. And Elizabeth as her other liege, would be giving background assent, so the only place orders to stand down would be coming from Janacek and Chakrabarti, which as I've pointed out, have no authority over Grayson units acting in Grayson interests.