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You aren't exactly sure why you had this sudden urge to... violate this space alien. It's not as though any reason you really need to, it was merely a juvenile desire. Perhaps a psychological trick, to further humiliate and lessen the status of the Consortium “warriors” in your own mind, but such things are unimportant for one of your training. Besides, what about the potential risks and vectors for disease or if its a potential trap?
Your curiosity about this species and the captain herself may have also stemmed from the culture shock of experiencing a female combatant. It is unusual, as all gendered species that you know of follow a scheme of male-disposability. If a given species is gendered, then naturally the sex that is responsible for less of the reproductive duty is instead adapted to competition, resource gathering, and risk-taking- while on the off hand you have the more important of the two sexes that is naturally more vulnerable be more risk-averse, more physically conservative, more focused on survival, and so on. If half the males of a given species die, they can have more or less the same total number of offspring in the next generation, with only a negligible amount of genetic diversity lost. But if half the women die? That is a massive blow to your reproductive capacity- it would take generations to recover from that. For this reason, every society in the entire history of Jaxt has followed this model. So why send a female to war? The Consortium value the personal freedoms or interchangability of its citizens so much that it sacrifices its own safety and efficacy for weaker, less aggressive, and more vulnerable soldiers? Foolish.
You banish the thoughts of this intriguing alien female. You command her to put through your normal procedure, and emphasize the dispassionate nature you wish for her “punishment”. With a word, you spare her from horrific tortures, finding a certain degree of empathy- despite you never even seeing each other in person. Nor could you even share a single word; given the differences of communication. You order the woman to be given a medical, physical, and mental series of tests in her imprisonment, and when she sleeps, be killed painlessly via laser brain severance. She is still an enemy, and your enemies <span class="mu-i">will</span> die, but as for how and why they are killed- you have a choice. And you choose dignity, however small that gesture may mean.
