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Quote: 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.
That's partly why Lara tries not to end up on the front lines. She's not sure her own "rules of engagement" line up with the Legion's, and she doesn't want to hear the "that's not how we do things" lecture. It's easier to let someone else lead.
If she's pushed hard enough or feels a strong need to protect her friends, though, she'll probably change that reluctance quickly.
Quote: 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.
Early in her career, she was both easily the most powerful on her team, and in the media spotlight because the public thought it was so cool to have a teenage superhero. The lesson she took from that was that no casualties were acceptable. The end result being that it was okay to use maximum force against someone who had the *potential* to cause a lot of casualties, because the public is more okay with "it's okay because she saved us all" than if she lets a few civilians die.
Though with a spaceship attack, she would be very worried about what would happen if it would fall, so she would relocate it as soon as possible, and then cause the ship to crash. Then she might start negotiating with them because she'll have them at a disadvantage.
Quote: Hatman works with many people with spotty pasts. The question might be whether she still believes what she did was right.
She has had to kill, but she believes she was forced into it by people who have no limits. She does have a strong conscience, and it does haunt her still, and make her wonder if she should have done it.
What really might disturb Hatman - and Sir Mumphrey - is that she has also in the past negotiated with really bad people, and given in to them to help keep things peaceful. Chiaki knows this, and feels a kinship with Lara because of it.
Quote: 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.
Since you're using that comparison, imagine the Galactic Government as the militant wing of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Violating some of their trading rules, especially as a group, would result in eradication. That's one of the darker sides of the way they do things.
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