I suspect that by now the LL has pretty clear rules of engagement, much like the police and armed services do, and they know going in which prevails.

Like most "official" superhero groups they have procedures for standard engagements that are not unlike those of law enforcement: challenge before firing etc. unless there is clear and present danger, use minimum force level required, avoid collateral casualties. But the LL also fought the Parody War and have fought in several off-world or other-dimension conflicts where those rules can't really apply. So in those situations there are "shoot-first" and "balance harm" doctrines.

For example: if a spaceship attacks a civilian ground target with missles and laser fire, a superhero might have no time to disable the craft when destroying it is faster and saves lives under threat. But that spacecraft might carry some conscript troopers who don't want to be there, or noncombatant medical personnel, or even prisoners of war for interrogation. All of those will die along with the ship. In a less fraught peacetime confrontation then some other less all-destructive solution might be expected to be found. In a fast dirty war there is no other solution.




Hatman works with many people with spotty pasts. The question might be whether she still believes what she did was right.







As and when. We'll be touching on (and resolving) the Apostate war again in UT in chapter 30.

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They could seriously affect purchasing habits in a trade-based society.

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Somewhere out there, that might be the first time the Galactic Government becomes hands-on to solve that problem back home. If there's one thing they won't tolerate, it's trade interruptions.

I'm thinking about the old religious campaigns against Proctor & Gamble Foods because their 100-year-old logo was rumoured to be "satanic", and how the company actually had to change their packaging because of the hit their sales took. Or of how single-issue voters with strong religious feelings about abortion or gay marriage can block-vote to affect electoral outcomes.

In practical terms, twenty billion believers all dumping shares in a company at once or all switching brand support to a more faith-amenable provider of goods or services is a back door to takeover.