HellBovine wrote...
It is never said outright, but it is fairly obvious. He is the only one inherently invested in the trial, and the one who pushes for both the stripping of her ship-name and her exile. He also attempts to declare her exiled regardless of whether or not she survives the retaking of the Alerai. Shala and Han would not attempt to charge her without proof and Daro has no desire to dismiss Rael's research. The only member of the admiralty who has an agenda in this is Zaal.
I have to agree. Zaal seems to be only one, who had any real agenda with this trial, which is ultimately showing showing that war against the Geth is not wise and that people should favor peaceful option. Now you could ask how exiling Tali would help with this goal? Well I see it like this.
Tali, being daughter of Rael Zorah, who is well known for his stand to take back the homeworld and even by force. And if this wasn't bad enough, then Koris found out that Rael must have even tested some weapons or something against the Geth as they took over the Alarei. Now this of course is really bad for Koris political agenda as if Rael would have found something useful against the Geth, then war would have been more likely.
What comes to Alarei and blowing/taking it back, well I think that Koris would have wanted to destroy Alarei right away, but I don't think he wanted to do that right away. After all every ship are valuable for Quarians and if there were any way to get it back, then it should be attempted. Also attempting to saving the ship and failing did work in favor for Koris as it clearly showed how uneffective Quarian forces are against the Geth. I mean if best of Quarian marines lost in few quite newly build Geth, then how can they believe they could beat the battle hardened Geth, which where behind Perseus Veil?
So, I would say that this attempt to save Alarei and then failing at it was something that Koris wanted to use in favor for his political aganda. However it seems that it was not enough as it only showed how dangerous the Geth are. But Rael'Zorah was still quite popular character amongst the fleet and Koris couldn't outright attack against him as it wouldn't have worked. No, he would have needed to disgrace him and his image in order to further his own agenda. And Koris got perfect opportunity to do this "disgracing" via by using Rael's daughter and the fact that she had been sending Geth parts back to the fleet. To make it force, she did that because Real had asked/ordered it. This gave Koris opportunity to show how Real didn't really care about the fleets safety and how this whole war supporting would endanger to whole fleet. Anyway because of this, Koris had now a way and facts to discredit Real and his ideas. But Koris still needed to best possible way to make his case, so that he could get widest possible support for his aganda. And he find his way in this public trial for Tali.
Now putting Tali on public trial was best way to advance Koris goals as in this case everyone on the fleet would know of this trial and after stating the facts during this trial everyone would hear how Real'Zorah and his ideas had endangered the whole fleet. And this attempt is quite masterfully done as every attempt Koris makes during the trial support this. 1. Using Tali to discredit Real. 2. Then stipping Tali from her ship name. 3. Clear attempt to get widest possible reaction from public by using stating that Geth had over take Alarei only after they had talked about Tali sending Geth parts back and that she had said they were totally harmless. Now only thing that Koris didn't see was that Shep as Tali's defence councillor. Of course he did attempt to discredit Shep and his/hers precence on the trial, but as we know, it didn't work. However it's possible that he had believed that Shep wouldn't know how to defend Tali and he/she being human wouldn't get much support from other Quarians, so Koris might have thought that this was for his benefit.
But if Koris wanted to discredit Rael and use Tali to do that, then why he wanted to give Tali permisson to try and take Alarei back. Wouldn't this work against him and his goals? Now I believe that it would have worked against him. However in this case he was pressured from other Admirals (namely Shala and Gerrel) and he was forced to comply with it. There are two things, which supports this. First is that when Gerrel mentions that if Tali dies on Alarei, Admirals would posthumously pardon her. Koris was against this. Second one was after the Alarei mission as you clearly hear be enteting the court room than Koris is wants to continue the trial and declare Tali and Shep death, which of course would work for his favor. So, Koris tried his every possible way to discredit Tali and throught her Rael during the public trial, which failed as it now seems that no matter if you gave or kept the Alarei evidence, it's what leads to this whole Geth/Quarian war in ME3 as Quarians new weaponry was based on that data.
Anyway, like I tried to state in this small
book, Koris really seemed to have his own agenda in this trial and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he would have been behind it.
But I don't think you would have needed to worry; most officers are fairly lenient with most foreigners. Its trying to fit in that can be a hassle; like trying to get a drivers license, or a house. Sad but true.
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