That's in real life. In anime, I can name any number of shows
where central or supporting cast blow off military discipline regularly,
and not only get away with it, they often are rewarded. Galaxy Railways
comes to mind as one story I'm collecting where that happens on a
routine basis. Another that comes to mind is Macross... -any- of the
series. Gundam is another series rife with soldiers who hare off on
their own with very expensive pieces of equipment at will.

	As a former soldier, it raises my hackles too; but in anime,
outright insubordination is -genre-.



     Ja mata,
     Larry F

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-----Original Message-----

I originally had a plot laid out that followed the original 
sequence of 
events in Macek's outline and the novilization by Brian Daley 
and James 
Luceno (AKA Jack McKinney) in respect to T.R. Edwards (to a point). 
 Upon consultation with a couple experts in military fields 
that I have 
learned to trust, I discovered that there is no way in hell 
that Edwards 
could weasel out of getting spaced, with or without a court martial.

I do apologize, and for only the second time in my time writing 
fanfics, I will have to make a couple major revisions to this 
chapter. 
 The revision will be posted on my website during the next 
update, with 
the relevant link included when I post chapter 24 (which is 
in progress).

As one of my favorite sci-fi characters is famous for saying, "Oops."

Jeremy Bennett wrote:

I like your story so far, though I have one comment.  A commander
-cannot- tolerate insubordination on any level, Especially 

from an XO 

class officer, Tenchi by rights should be spacing edwards 

out of hand 

for what he has done...

Jeremy

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