Stephen Date wrote:
--- Dana Shilling wrote:
Tavia said:
This is certainly the clearest indication in the
whole episode of Leylan's
*direct* callousness. If he really thought the
earlier two were rescuable
he should have sent an armed group of a size
capable of attempting to deal
with the menace.
You don't use brute force to counteract a force you don't understand. If he had sent a large force into there they would have all died. 1/That would have reflected very badly on Leylan. 2/He's too smart to do such a thing.
Sending Krell alone is pointless.
It's hard to tell how many troops he has available for deployment--some died or were wounded in the mutiny,
One dies. Gan kills him.
and Leylan
certainly has to keep the remaining prisoners closely guarded. He might not have anyone to spare.
You just up the drug level.
I suspect that Leylan is trying to redeem himself by salvaging the Liberator only to find he's bitten off more than he can chew.
Redeem himself? From what he says in that scene, he's only interested in the money.
I suspect he's torn between
giving it up as a bad job and not losing face in front of Raiker. So he sends Krell which is a bad compromise between the two.
No. He tells Krell to "get across there as fast as you can." At that point Raiker is on the flight deck. As Krell goes across Leylan signals Raiker to join him. He wants Raiker there so that he can ask for his opinion on what is undoubtedly going to happen to Krell. He has sent Krell into the trap so that he can use him to gather more information about what killed the others. Evil is usually a word I will avoid using because it has a lot of religious connotations. There is no such thing as innate evil. Evil is always imposed by an outside force. And it is always human. Leylan is a very evil man.
Jenny
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