Jeremy Bennett wrote on 6/4/2004, 11:06 AM:

 >
 > 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...

    Nope.  Not if the REF has a code of military justice even remotely 
resembling the common points shared by most 20th-century Western 
nations.  And since Tenchi mentioned a JAG investigation, I suspect it 
does.  Edwards gets a nice, legal trial, with a lawyer.  *Then* he gets 
spaced.  If Tenchi just blew him out an airlock, *he'd* be the one 
facing a court-martial.  And he'd be convicted.
    What worries *me* is that Edwards is too canny a player to do something 
as egregiously *pointless* as this appears to be.  If there wasn't an 
angle he could count on to get him out of this, and forward his overall 
scheme, he wouldn't be playing.  But what does he *gain* by doing this?
    I will note in passing that one thing he *has* accomplished is to put a 
not-insignificant hole in the REF's mecha strength, by rendering his 
hand-picked units unreliable.  I doubt this is his goal, but I'll bet 
that it forwards his plans, somehow...




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