icekatze wrote:Earlier in this thread we had a discussion about this very thing happening, around page 127. You participated in it. Long story short though, given the nature of Loroi telepathy, silently wishing for something is not really a thing that Stillstorm is in a position to do. Stillstorm in particular being a exemplar of Loroi honesty, is going to let Tempo know exactly how she feels. If Stillstorm wishes that Tempo would get accidentally sucked out an airlock, then Tempo almost certainly knows it, and she also knows that Stillstorm is not actually planning to kill her. If Stillstorm was actually planning on moving against Tempo, she would have already done so.
Yes. Let's be clear on something. This somehow degraded into the wrong direction. First, I did not say or imply, that Stillstorm is planning to kill Tempo or vice versa. They do not like each other on more than professional levels, but that is normal since one is a soldier, the other - a spy. Second, I believe Admiral Stillstorm to be a capable officer, not perfect but skilled and experienced, one for whom duty and the mission comes first, protocol second and third, everything else after that.
I was talking about whether Tempo's rank and the knowledge she possesses would make her important enough from to be provided a starfighter escort while traveling across the system on a shuttle, you know, just in case, as standard practice. I would say that yes, Tempo should be considered important enough,
regardless of what the Admiral's personal opinion of her was, or even if,
hypothetically, the Admiral was to silently wish Tempo were to disappear for good.
I meant that as an exaggerated example for Rules are Rules and procedure must be followed, regardless of what you think of the other person, and not meaning to say that Stillstorm actually does think or wish for something bad to happen to Tempo.
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And by the way, I did also write somewhere here that so far I kind of like Tempo and would not want something bad to happen to her