Zulu_DFA wrote...
Chuck_Vu wrote...
Zulu_DFA wrote...
Terraneaux wrote...
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Terraneaux wrote...
There are a few traitors who are funneling money towards a terrorist organization, but that's it.
Traitors, or patriots?
Traitors. They're sending money to an organization which murders alliance soldiers.
They knew the risks.
Of being betrayed by the very people they swore to protect? The average Alliance soldier probably isn't aware that Cerebus even exists. Therefore it stands to reason, that the soldier would view a Cerebus agent, not as some black ops member, but a civilian that he's sworn to protect, or a fellow Alliance soldier who has his back.
Dying from the enemy is a risk all soldiers take. Dying from a knife in the back from your allies is not supposed be a risk.
Traitors
Have you read a copy of the contract, that people sign when they enlist in the Alliance Navy? May be they willfully subject themselves to highly realistic simulations without prior notice in course of advanced training and/or military research programs. You know, to serve humanity. The greater good. All the stuff.
Undercover officers are still subject rules and regulations and the laws apply, if they conciously kill a fellow officer who is not undercover. Think undercover cop killing a uniformed cop. Your argument applies only if Cerebus is still a
RECOGNISED part of the Alliance military. The Council (if you saved them) says they are terrorists, and Anderson (if you appointed him to councilor) gives the cold shoulder and won't tell you what's up with Alenko/Williams because you are working for Cerebus. That pretty much implies that Cerebus is a rogue unit. Since they've gone rogue, Cerebus won't answer to the Alliance equivalent of the UCMJ. And as a rouge unit, they are not valid members of the Alliance and not able to create "Highly Realistic Similations" or "Research Programs" on behalf of the Alliance. Those Alliance soldiers in question are now considered -
MURDERED. The only way out of this, would be if the Alliance soldiers involved knowingly
VOLUNTEERED for a
CEREBUS (which is now at best a
CIVILIAN group, or a domestic terrorist group at worst) simulation/experiment.
And remember TIM refers to the Alliance as "The Alliance," like he and Cerebus is outside of them. He doesn't refer to the Alliance as "WE", like he and Cerebus is still a part of the Alliance.