>>5297176>>5297172im honestly surprised, so in the idea of it, it's a form of societal grasp that the leaders through time put through as to keep a cohesive identity within the empire? or at least semi-cohesive.
>Depart the system in force, but allow the merchants to stay here for a promised rewards, guarding your trophies.>Start reading stoic philosophy.they can have alot of the general scrap which can't be refitted into new warships, and in exchange we might just add in something about a possible trade agreement between them and imperial worlds, possibly registering them in the archives as imperial in nature as to improve possible trade in the region. since now with the pirate threat gone, imperial law will slowly begin creeping back into the area.
>Start reading stoic philosophy.while i agree with the fundamentals of iron's philosophic stance, there is still this nagging in me. and to an extent which i think proenza might also have after such a discussion.
should this not also be her choice?
while i know this is to a large degree emotionally charged, there is still a kernel of an origin to my feeling about this. and that is i think, while most likely a probable failure, we should still try to save her brain, and, maybe away from prying eyes, let her awaken, maybe not feeling anything, almost as if paralyzed, and asking her.
"miss alpizar, would you want, to meet your son, even if it might not be the same you to wake up? to do so in metal skin?"
i don't think we should give her a full body, at least not to begin with. but to at least for a moment keep her alive with some old boxed machinery keeping bloodflow, and ask "is this a choice you would be okay with, even if you cannot be known by your old self anymore? to take on a new name to all those but your closest?"
i don't wanna say either this is a right approach, but i think it's at least one, where before she rests, she get's to choose if to do so or not. to give her one last bit of agency.
