Henry Wong relives an operation in which the battlecruiser Panther destroyed an evacuation ship carrying an alien species' last breeding group. His recurring nightmare inserts warnings that his executive officer did not give during the actual attack, because the crew had not understood the full consequences. The ship passes through a larger fleet battle to carry out its assigned mission, and destroying its target condemns the species to extinction. Therapy allows Wong to separate himself from the dream, but he still hopes for a different ending each time. The scene connects incomplete intelligence and obedience to orders with the commander's later knowledge of what the attack achieved.
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Raven's Peace, battlecruisers, and moral injury
Raven's Peace follows a commander haunted by an attack whose genocidal consequences were not fully understood aboard his ship at the time.