#like those guys are already in the ben hassrath so they won't reassign them to labor instead

[curiouslavellan]

Reply from @cool-kink-bro

Not wastefulness, they were a message is how I saw it. They were the message, probably low ranking, maybe they were prone to messing up or not Qun-like enough to the point they wouldn't be missed if they were gone.

That's kind of my point though? Two people dying to send a message that Bull is super officially Tal-Vashoth is wasteful. Bull clearly already knows that, so the message was unnecessary, and Bull isn't part of the Qun anymore so I'm not even sure why they care about him anymore. If they thought they could actually kill him that would make more sense because a defected intelligence operative is a loose end, but Bull seems convinced it was a formality rather than a real assassination attempt

Those guys might have been bad at being spies or soldiers or whatever, but they were loyal enough to die for the cause, so they at least believe in the Qun. I don't see how using them as canon fodder for this is more useful than having them do farm work or something. There's a conversation with Bull where he talks about how the companions would do under the Qun and iirc he says even Sera would be put to work (after qamek) so presumably those guys could do something more useful than die

the Qun hates wastefulness but apparently it's standard practice to send two people to their deaths just to make a point to a defected Ben Hassrath