#it feels too much like a convenient law put in place solely to needle Pershing for the sake of the plot

[gwarden123]

Really? Does Pershing not have any guards? Not even just one? He is a scientist and he is technically a defector. Wouldn’t somebody, from either side want to, you know... *stab stab* I really thought that box was going to be a pipe bomb or Poloniom-210 or at least a dead cat or something.

Also, why are they both so taken with Coruscant? It was the Imperial Center for twenty years, it’s not really something the New Republic built. (Yes, I know whatsherface said she’d been there before, but it really shouldn’t be that different from when it was Imperial. Not for mass appeal, family friendly things like a fair. Bread and circuses type of thing. You have to keep the public happy, even if you are crushing them beneath your boot heel. A certain section of the population would not notice a difference from what it was before. They would just whine about all the foreigners.)

I’m also not entirely convinced of this amnesty program, having grown up in a country that had a rather significant change in government. Especially for lower ranking officers and technical personnel, I see no reason why they wouldn’t just be sent back to work doing what they did before. My country’s army didn’t all get fired and replaced when the new government took over. They just all integrated with the new government’s forces. And those who couldn’t handle that could just fuck off elsewhere, most likely to somewhere with a desert. I mean, America should know this! They didn’t arrest all the Confederates at the end of the Civil War. And Imperials aren’t cultists. They don’t really need rehabilitation and reintegration.

And the ethics of cloning aren’t complicated! Not for organs and things! It’s not like they’re talking about, ooh, the dreadful war crimes we committed when we cloned a bunch of disposable people to die horribly in a war for us, in hushed tones like we talk about Nazi gas chambers or, like, the actions of Unit 731. It’s just cloning somebody a new heart! Presumably from their own tissue! We’re not even getting into the ethics of stem cell research or surrogate donors to carry the organs in until they’re fully grown. No one should care. I have no idea why Pershing doesn’t just go into the private sector.