Well captain, what do you expect as a high-ranking officer of a warfaring nation? The amount of people with a personal reason will mostly depend on your own personality and way of treating others. Sometimes, of course, you are just at the wrong place at the wrong time…
maybe just maybe they want to be as free as the people of your nation are. Noone enjoys being oppressed, these Ashulians need to wake up.(actually what do you call a citizen of Ashul?)
An age old question of humanity. Perspective is the answer, even if it isn’t necessarily the solution.
I can’t help but wonder if the Captain is contemplating retirement, because even the most stalwart and duty-bound of soldiers eventually reach a point when they say, “I can do no more.” It does not mean they feel guilty, or regret their actions during their service, merely that they have spent the portion of their life that they can willingly sacrifice and now seek to spend their remaining days pursuing some other goal, perhaps even as simple a goal as growing old in peace.
Mortality has a way of creeping up on us when we least expect it. I hope that she reaches home safely.
I’m viewing this scene within the planning room as the battle-weary ship’s captain attempting to justify specific actions earlier in her career that she was either ordered to oversee its execution, or made a command decision(s) that had significant consequences which is beginning to vex her conscience.
Both of our guesses are valid when pertaining to a weary and aging soldier and a ship’s captain to boot, that thinks it’s her time to step aside, turn her back away from it all, and let younger blood take the reins of command.
Sounds legit! Also, I recommend staring pointedly at people until they answer your weird questions, that’s how you get results.
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Torjin
Well captain, what do you expect as a high-ranking officer of a warfaring nation? The amount of people with a personal reason will mostly depend on your own personality and way of treating others. Sometimes, of course, you are just at the wrong place at the wrong time…
Mzolonaire
maybe just maybe they want to be as free as the people of your nation are. Noone enjoys being oppressed, these Ashulians need to wake up.(actually what do you call a citizen of Ashul?)
Thracecius
An age old question of humanity. Perspective is the answer, even if it isn’t necessarily the solution.
I can’t help but wonder if the Captain is contemplating retirement, because even the most stalwart and duty-bound of soldiers eventually reach a point when they say, “I can do no more.” It does not mean they feel guilty, or regret their actions during their service, merely that they have spent the portion of their life that they can willingly sacrifice and now seek to spend their remaining days pursuing some other goal, perhaps even as simple a goal as growing old in peace.
Mortality has a way of creeping up on us when we least expect it. I hope that she reaches home safely.
GreatBasinCoyote
I’m viewing this scene within the planning room as the battle-weary ship’s captain attempting to justify specific actions earlier in her career that she was either ordered to oversee its execution, or made a command decision(s) that had significant consequences which is beginning to vex her conscience.
Thracecius
That’s probably the most likely interpretation. I was thinking too big picture again. 😉
GreatBasinCoyote
Both of our guesses are valid when pertaining to a weary and aging soldier and a ship’s captain to boot, that thinks it’s her time to step aside, turn her back away from it all, and let younger blood take the reins of command.
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