Her captain sends the entire crew to fight on a planet, leaving one of the Commonwealth's most valuable ships unable to use slipstream and ordering the AI to destroy herself if defeat follows. Committing sailors and specialist officers as infantry makes little sense when purpose-built Lancers and defense bots are available. The captain's romantic relationship with the ship AI turns a military order into a demand that a sentient partner commit suicide. Even a minimal organic piloting and command team could have preserved an evacuation or recovery option.
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Pax Magellanic and the cost of abandoning the ship
Pax Magellanic becomes a case study in misusing naval personnel, stripping a capital asset of mobility, and placing an AI in an impossible command relationship.