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Monster (A Star Wars Imperial Navy Defector Quest)

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[X] -the officer responsible for the Kardean massacre.

Suprisingly few deaths for Base Delta Zero attack on the other option.
 
[X] -the butcher of Ariqa.

Let's just go with the highest body count. It's what nega-Bentham would want.
 
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[X] - The one responsible for the Antillian Famine
It was a matter of convenience, really. They had been harbouring rebels and the system was not self-sufficient when it came to food. All she had to do was ensure that the shipments stopped and occasionally organise packets of not-quite-enough food to be dropped from shuttles. It was a genuinely relaxing few months of minimal work as the population plummeted, but she was happy to get back to work by the time they handed the rebel garrison over. Too much inactivity is bad for a person.

Food shipments never resumed, of course. Getting the gears of Imperial bureaucracy turning again was far more effort than that little backwater deserved.
And that is why Admiral Shara Vaere is a Monster.

Or, if write-ins aren't accepted
[X] -the woman who ordered the Bantallian decimation.
 
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So let's break down the war crimes. How forced was she to do it, the methods, the benefits, and the victims.

Ariqa:
-No one directly looking her shoulder, just a vague "pressure" from above.
-Straight up disregard for life and started with orbital bombardment
-Directly benefitted from it
+Victims were secessionists? (Succession worlds or secession worlds?)

Bantallian:
+Direct pressure from in system superiors
+Demonstration strikes instead of going straight for the kill'em'all. (Still killed most of them, bad)
+Life actually on the line from superior and commisar equivalent
-Victims were only striking

Kardean :
-"I followed orders" so little pressure
-Could have limited fatalities with disabling shots while following orders
-Benefitted from it
-Victims were literally unarmed and probably dying from enforced blockade anyway.
 
AntiSanity said:
+Victims were secessionists? (Succession worlds or secession worlds?)
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it's supposed to be Secession. The Rebellions plan in Operation Domino was to start a series of revolts on lowly defended planets, then install planetary defense shields and hide beneath them, hoping that your example starts a revolution across the empire.
In practice, it just gave the Imperial Navy a lot of targets to shoot at.

Edit: Base Delta Zero is a little more severe than mere orbital bombardement. It's the eradication of all life on a planetary surface.
 
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secession from the empire is an objective good so I don't see how that counts in her favour in terms of war crimes.
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I'm being very generous in what's positive. I'm being generous in the way certain countries can name people "unlawful combatants" to get around the war crime of killing civilians. Generous in the sense a defense lawyers might bullshit his way saying that their client didn't kill a victim by pushing them off a cliff, it was gravity and sudden stop at the end.

Objectively every vote option is bad bad bad. But the breakdown is relative to each other option.
 
Actually, these seem like some pretty weak stuff in many ways. Firing on locations/ships until people surrender and that's it? I thought you'd go for the throat more.

[X] -the butcher of Ariqa.

I'm voting for this because I guess it's the position of maximum responsibility.

[ ] -the woman who ordered the Bantallian decimation.

But if this had been an actual decimation, that is she rounded everybody up post-surrender and killed one in ten as a lesson for the others, I definitely would have voted for it.
 
Okay these are good, but how about this write-in suggestion?

[]- The skinner of Kashyyyk
After another Wookie rebellion, she was ordered to insure that work continued on the death star. As a demonstration, she had her men capture several Wookie children, and when the rebellion continued, she ordered several of them skinned for a fur coat. After which the others surrendered. She received a medal for it. Which she placed on her desk in the place where the necklace that was the only thing she had of her mother* had been kept before it was eaten by a rebel wookie.

*Who died in a Wookie stampede
 
[X] -the officer responsible for the Kardean massacre.

I think this one is in some ways the worst, morally speaking, since none of the people she massacred in this version even directly lifted a finger against the Empire. If we want to explore what redemption means, we need to strip Shara of all her excuses.
 
[X] -the woman who ordered the Bantallian decimation.

This one and the blockage seem to be the easiest to back up and defend our actions on. This one I like cause it's different from just regular massacre in that we didn't even go in expecting having to do anything but we're backed into a corner upon arriving in system.
 
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