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Monster (A Star Wars Imperial Navy Defector Quest)

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[x] -Terror. Utter terror.
 
[X] -Terror. Utter terror.

From what I've read until now, our Admiral believes in the Empire. Believes that what she's doing is justified.

Because no person is the villain of their own tale. And if that breaks? If what made her a good person breaks? I'd be terrified as hell. I wonder if she will be, too.
 
I'm sort of torn here. Terror makes the most sense to me, but it also feels ...mundane?

I'll have to give it more thought.
 
[X] -Relief. Inexplicable relief.

Can there be redemption if she didn't hate what she did? If some secret, supposedly shameful part of her doesn't sigh in relief that she can stop?
 
Winged One said:
[X] -Relief. Inexplicable relief.

Can there be redemption if she didn't hate what she did? If some secret, supposedly shameful part of her doesn't sigh in relief that she can stop?
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The problem with the whole idea of honorable Imperial officers secretly hating Palpatine's Empire is that it over simplifies the moral complexity of service to a force of evil. It creates a paradigm in which Imperial officers are portrayed as either figures of pure evil with no real moral code or "Noble Adversaries" trapped in a system they don't know how to escape. This is a problem because it doesn't give room for all the idealistic and practical reasons why people could be loyal Palpatine's Empire and would continue supporting the ideology it was based on.
 
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[X] -Relief. Inexplicable relief.

Ct613hulu said:
The problem with the whole idea of honorable Imperial officers secretly hating Palpatine's Empire is that it over simplifies the moral complexity of service to a force of evil. It makes it to easy to simplistically portray Imperial officers as either figures of pure evil with no real moral code or Noble Adversaries trapped in a system they don't know how to escape without giving room for all the idealistic and practical reasons why so many people were loyal Palpatine's Empire and would continue supporting the ideology it was based on.
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'Finally, Darth Vader will stop murdering my colleagues.' --> relief.
 
AKuz said:
She had no reason to continue to obey the chain of command. Hell, she had no idea what the fuck the chain of command even was anymore. Palpatine was dead. Vader was dead. No other single person could take the reins over the whole Empire and live more than a day.
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Such a lack of faith in TRIOCULUS, SON OF THE EMPEROR

 
[X] -Excitement. Invigorating excitement.

Ambition, ho!

Jrin said:
Wait until the full stories of the Empire's sins come to light you sweet summer child!
To be honest, it would be interesting seeing how she react to the Sith and all of the Empire's hidden brutality, I mean rumours are one thing but full cold evidence is quite another.
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Has that sort of thing ever changed anyone's mind?
 
Fuck, Excitement is winning. Looks like we're in for a proper maniac if that wins, which, to be fair, can be fun as Squadrons demonstrates. I was just hoping we'd get a chance to be a terrible person failing miserably to become a good one.
 
[X] -Terror. Utter terror.

Of all the options, I think this leads into the defection to the New Republic the most. This is a woman afraid of chaos, and if it means preventing such devastation a lack of central authority will bring to the galaxy, shell even throw her lot in with the former rebels.
 
[X] -Terror. Utter terror.

I like this option because from everything we've read of her so far, she's a relatively true believer, in that she bought into the propaganda of the Empire being the bastion of Order and Civilization. Having that all collapse is terrifying. Especially when you've killed many, many people for it.
 
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