From this snippet it seems more like the wife craved power and/or had sufficient prejudice against anyone that wasn’t classified as a normal human that she killed him because of his being a ‘traitor to the human race sympathizing with those monsters.’
That’s a standard plot development for a situation like that. Heads of agencies that are more cooperative and working towards peaceful coexistence in situations like that often get killed off in backstories (and sometimes during story developments) due to agents with heavy prejudices wanting to eliminate the ‘traitor’ as they see him for daring to think the groups can cooperate.
Since his wife is said to be an agent and betrayed him she would need some reason for that, conservation of detail would suggest since she’s also an agent that she did not agree with his policies and felt the ‘monsters’ should be dealt with permanently instead of treated like people.
From there you conclude that she either betrayed him to take his place for the power and/or because she wanted to ensure a new director even if it wasn’t her took over to ‘properly’ manage things and deal with the ‘monsters.’
Eboreg
Well… there is something else to consider: the only valid reason that Rama’s forces would lose the Centralis-Teraplex War would be a lack of industry.
I’ve talked a lot about how Terran tactics and weaponry were superior to Cyantian tactics pre-war (Syrys was just asking to get shot in the face when he raided Rama’s camp in the “Darius” comic but that’s assuming sniper rifles are a thing) but tactics and weaponry are easy to copy.
Industry is an entirely different matter so the Centralis government could easily hold back Rama’s forces until better weapons can come online in enough numbers to crush the invaders. Kind of like of Germany made very impressive gains in the early parts of WWII but were crushed when the Allies combined the Germans’ newfangled tactics with their own homegrown industry and population.
Now imagine what would happen if a nation that has more powerful industry than Centralis by virtue of having a labor pool orders of magnitude larger AND has spent the last century honing military tactics that the Cyantians have just begun to learn decides that the Cyantians are a threat that needs to be removed, starting with regaining a technological edge through “reverse-engineering”.
If you pardon my tinfoil hat theorizing for a moment, it’s possible that after Rama lost the Centralis-Teraplex War, he decided that the best way to get his revenge was to manipulate the US into getting it for him.
That’s a… lot of assumptions to make. For example, assuming that murdering the head of a “nonexistent” government agency won’t bring severe disciplinary action on your head. It was probably just hardcore political maneuvering. Another interesting problem is that making assumptions based on the information available can often turn out wrong. For example, I used to assume that the Cyantians must have done something wrong to get the AMIB to be this hostile but… apparently not.
eekee
It is a lot of assumptions, but they’re standard assumptions! 😀 As for “hardcore political maneuvering,” is there ever any “just” about that?
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10 thoughts on “Campus Safari Chapter 18 07”
Cannonfodder10503
I’m guessing they didn’t have kids and the wife only cared about her career
Nightmask
From this snippet it seems more like the wife craved power and/or had sufficient prejudice against anyone that wasn’t classified as a normal human that she killed him because of his being a ‘traitor to the human race sympathizing with those monsters.’
Iron Ed
How on Cyantia did you get all that from just one relevant sentence??? 🙂
TiffRoss
Because I did a good job on that panel. 😀
eekee
You did! 😀 I do like the distant trees.
Nightmask
That’s a standard plot development for a situation like that. Heads of agencies that are more cooperative and working towards peaceful coexistence in situations like that often get killed off in backstories (and sometimes during story developments) due to agents with heavy prejudices wanting to eliminate the ‘traitor’ as they see him for daring to think the groups can cooperate.
Since his wife is said to be an agent and betrayed him she would need some reason for that, conservation of detail would suggest since she’s also an agent that she did not agree with his policies and felt the ‘monsters’ should be dealt with permanently instead of treated like people.
From there you conclude that she either betrayed him to take his place for the power and/or because she wanted to ensure a new director even if it wasn’t her took over to ‘properly’ manage things and deal with the ‘monsters.’
Eboreg
Well… there is something else to consider: the only valid reason that Rama’s forces would lose the Centralis-Teraplex War would be a lack of industry.
I’ve talked a lot about how Terran tactics and weaponry were superior to Cyantian tactics pre-war (Syrys was just asking to get shot in the face when he raided Rama’s camp in the “Darius” comic but that’s assuming sniper rifles are a thing) but tactics and weaponry are easy to copy.
Industry is an entirely different matter so the Centralis government could easily hold back Rama’s forces until better weapons can come online in enough numbers to crush the invaders. Kind of like of Germany made very impressive gains in the early parts of WWII but were crushed when the Allies combined the Germans’ newfangled tactics with their own homegrown industry and population.
Now imagine what would happen if a nation that has more powerful industry than Centralis by virtue of having a labor pool orders of magnitude larger AND has spent the last century honing military tactics that the Cyantians have just begun to learn decides that the Cyantians are a threat that needs to be removed, starting with regaining a technological edge through “reverse-engineering”.
If you pardon my tinfoil hat theorizing for a moment, it’s possible that after Rama lost the Centralis-Teraplex War, he decided that the best way to get his revenge was to manipulate the US into getting it for him.
TiffRoss
*Whispers* She was married to him.
Eboreg
That’s a… lot of assumptions to make. For example, assuming that murdering the head of a “nonexistent” government agency won’t bring severe disciplinary action on your head. It was probably just hardcore political maneuvering. Another interesting problem is that making assumptions based on the information available can often turn out wrong. For example, I used to assume that the Cyantians must have done something wrong to get the AMIB to be this hostile but… apparently not.
eekee
It is a lot of assumptions, but they’re standard assumptions! 😀 As for “hardcore political maneuvering,” is there ever any “just” about that?
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