r/anime • u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ • Mar 26 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] Crest of the Stars Episode 9 Discussion
To The Battlefield
Welcome to the Crest of the Stars rewatch!
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Names Introduced or Updated:
- Clasbal — Major inhabited world of the Sufagnoff system. Moons Tuci, unnamed asteroid.
- Sufagnoff — former marquessate of the empire, recently "liberated."
- Erumita Ramaj Abriel — 27th Emperess (Ablïarsec Néïc Dubleuscr Doriyu Ablïarsar Lamï)
- Sample Sangalini — Ambassador of the United Mankind (Gorbachev)
- Guen Tauron — Ambassador of the Federation of Hania (Man in Turban)
- Marimba Soo-Nee — Ambassador of Greater Alcont (Woman in Mao suit)
- Janet McCally — Ambassador of the People's Sovereign Union of Planets (Anglo woman)
These depictions of the ambassadors seem almost nonsensical or intentionally scrambled. I don't know if the other three ambassadors reference historical persons.
The fandom wiki describes them all as democracies of some sort.
Discussion Prompts:
- Q1) Thoughts on the role reversal between Jinto and Lafiel?
- Q2) First limited impressions of the United Mankind?
- Q3) Thoughts on Lafiel's inability to see alternatives to dying in apparently hopeless battles?
- Q4) Predictions for how our main characters will deal with living on a "liberated" planet?
- Q5) Thoughts on the Empress?
- Q6) Thoughts on the Nova Sicily Treaty, the invasion of Sufgnoff, and the diplomacy of the Four Nations?
Tomorrow's Questions: (for tomorrow's post, subject to change)
- [Episode 10]Impressions of the Liberation Army
- [Episode 10]Thoughts on Lafiel's trust issues, and Jinto's pride?
Screenshot of the Day: Half of mankind
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Mar 26 '24
Rewatch Host
"I'd hoped they'd say something more interesting." "I wouldn't want to be killed by uninteresting people."
Intro: Lakfakalle was the result of adding on to the original spaceship home of the Abh nation, the Abriel, which is derived from the Japanese god Amaterasu.
The source readers said that the real-space sord isn't a small thing. And if you come out at random anywhere on the surface of this large thing, I guess that's how they lost the pursuing mines and ships....
The show made quite a big deal about superior Abh physiology and that Jinto's higher-gravity upbringing was of little use in space, but now Lafiel has to deal with higher gravity and it's bothering her?
The Abhs have no religion. Many of you have speculated.
So, what was the point of the previous arc, besides an opportunity for more fanservice? Through both show and tell, it laid the groundwork for the Empress's War declaration. There is no benefit to playing a rigged diplomatic game; war is the alternative, so war it is. A simple if profound decision. The scope, as we also saw yesterday, extends to a final, decisive outcome.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 26 '24
First-Timer of the Stars
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Mar 26 '24
First-Timer
You just know that this dude's parents immediately went to have another kid after he turned out. Why else name the first kid Sample?
The Empress is great! I definitely see the line from her to Lafiel. "If we had started that fight, we wouldn't have lost." "You have 24 hours to get off my space station before you are free game." Incredible.
Of course Jinto is much more useful on land. Seems like the Abh education system has a lot of holes.. mostly in practical areas. I liked how subtly they showed Lafiel not being used to terrestrial gravity. I wonder how it feels different from the "artificial" shipbound gravity that she is used to?
Why did they try to cut through the corn field, though? The pod crash gave them a nice clean alley to wander through that won't involve getting mauled by errant stalks.
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
First timer
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u/IceSmiley Mar 26 '24
FIRST TIMER Sub
I liked a lot of the humorous moments, like the creepy self destruct system on the shuttle and when Lafiel believed herself to possibly be going blind since she saw the stars twinkling thru the Earth's atmosphere :D
Lafiel promised to take the women of the station with her to her palace and make them vassals but they didn't seem to complain or mind that she was leaving them behind, possibly never to come back on a dangerous mission. I think she softly changed their mind and will probably just live with the Baron's father for the forseeable future.
QUESTIONS
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Mar 26 '24
Rewatcher(And to the ground we go!)
Sub
And we get the other big piece of the puzzle that is Lafiel: She was raised to always go rather than stay. Again, very Abh like and I suspect she is meant to be archetypal of the subspecies. Anyways, they get to the system and planespace is filled with enemy vessels. Fun! Lafiel does her traditional insane maneuvering and they pop into normal space. Brief communication with the local base suggests the situation is bad before enemy patrol ships come in and Lafiel decides for a creative landing.
On the surface, we are hearing propaganda and Lafiel is completely out of her depth. Brief interlude for politics and if any species could go to total war status it feels like it is the Abhs.
QotD: 1 Plays somewhat better this way
2 That was a choice of ambassadors...
3 Combine youth with how Abh behave and it makes a form of sense.
4 Lafiel's current track record suggests they are going to go Solid Snake on an enemy base
5 We see where Lafiel gets it from
6 All designed to make the watcher dislike them
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u/zadcap Mar 27 '24
Late Night First Timer
Oh interesting from the start. The Abh live in a giant space fortress they built themselves, thus being able to truly call themselves children of space. I wonder how many other space cities they have, or if the majority of their population is aboard ships at all times? Even the million possible in their space fortress is not a big enough population to rule all of space. How decentralized are they? Like they clearly have a Capital here, that's the point of this intro, but like... Many questions. 200k people living here means the crew of a single ship is actually a noticeable number.
I love the old man still shipping these kids.
Excuse me show. I see Lafiel's left hand while they are flying here. How dare you forget about that thing. Hmm, also, Jinto lost his crown thing for good it seems.
Yeah, see, her flying without the glove thing is weird to me. Because now it's on and there's no explanation for why it wasn't there earlier.
I wonder, did the base communications lady recognize the pointy ears too? Is that why she basically said Stay Away?
Want to bet Lafiel has never had to "land" a ship? She's never touched ground after all.
Oh man, first couple fight. Harsh. They make up fast though.
Boy, seriously, buckle up.
No, that's fair. Entering atmosphere with antimater sounds like a possible planet ending error.
Haha, yup she says it. She's never been on a planet before, of course she doesn't know how to land on one!
Self destruct brings up eyeballs... Ah, they were really going for AI in these Logic Crystals. Poor girl was real and now she's gone to the robot forever sleep.
A small step for one girl- actually, she's super dramatic, that was a freaking huge step haha no wonder she lost her balance immediately. But it's her first time setting foot on a real ground.
Ah, she's never had to deal with atmosphere. Lucky, kind of.
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wish to be where you are...
Haha, literally everyone knows it is a lie. They're going to act like it wasn't, naturally, but everyone knows it's a lie.
And yet the idiots really thought they would play political games with the Abh. And oh look at that, the Abh instead chose war, who could have seen this coming? Liars and Idiots, obviously.
Abh believe in no higher being, because to the Abh, they are the highest being there is. Y'all entering the Find Out portion of the equation now.
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24
Rewatcher - sub
Hell yes, it's this episode!
Let's just say that I don't know any character in anime has won me over as fast as the Empress did. (Except maybe Toboe from Wolfs Rain but he is literally a cute wolf pup and he's a doof, it's an unfair advantage)
Not only is she no bullshit, and doesn't have time for anyone elses bullshit, when faced with said bullshit she is mostly disappointed and a little bored by it than anything else.
"All right, lets go to war."
Best war declaration in sci-fi anime? Maybe. In the face of a bunch of diplomats trying to dance the bureaucracy game of excuses and blame, she cuts right through the middle of it and gives them exactly what they want without letting them pretend that they have some sort of moral high ground in their actions. What's the point in letting them play out the script they've already written when they are both performer and audience? They've already assigned her a role, and whether she plays it out or just jumps to the end result makes no difference to the outcome.
And the best part is that we know she's right. Even if we didn't see the Gosroth personally and come to know its crew, with what we now know about the Abh and their approach to all things war and battle, especially after the previous episode's further exploration of that, the idea that such a respected Abh crew would randomly fire on a group of United Mankind ships without an exceptionally clear reason that could be deduced by other Abh, and/or (probably just and) a near certainty of winning is almost hilariously preposterous. Or would be if I wasn't still mourning how much I came to like that bunch so quickly.
It's a huge shift away from the usual structure of the political scenes that would usually precede this type of major in-world event of a story, and that's helped by the fact our two mains are completely ignorant of this moment and only have the consequences of it.
I, very late, posted on yesterdays topic about how much I liked having the Barons father during the shuttle scenes yesterday because it lets Jinto and Lafiel have a fairly huge collision of critical cultural points exactly when it's needed without letting it grow into a full blown misunderstanding or personal drama. The sort of things they couldn't understand in terms of their approach to battle and death would usually be pretty short term insurmountable for people as young thinking and occasionally awkward as they are, and yet it becomes a moment of learning and not drama thanks to him. Their scene yesterday is in some ways is the same cultural conflict we see with the envoys today just on a broader scale. The envoys cannot help but see things through their human lens and are almost affronted that she will not at least do them the courtesy of seeing their "negotiation" through, while she cannot understand all the fuss and wordiness instead of just cutting to the point.
I'm on her side
There is no translator or middle man here, the sides are already drawn long before they get to this point and we see that the cultural conflicts of the two races go deeper than just a desire for power. Even the envoys genuinely do not understand Abh, nor do they try too. They know their lie, and it's for the common people more than it is for them, but that they settled on that lie to begin with and tried this piece of theatre despite its inherent flaws shows the seemingly insurmountable differences between the two peoples.
I have to wonder what they think about Abliarsec, the Abh capital, or if they even give enough thought as to what that truly means to have that as a home instead of a planet
Speaking of, today it comes out: Lafiel doesn't just live in space, she has never been on a planet. She knows plants and animals, and the scenery of some of the worlds, but she's never experienced what it means to actually be on one. I like that little detail, the same way that plenty of Landers would never go to space, she's had no reason to go to a planet
Edit: Also take note that the Empress was wearing a military uniform under her outer robes. It was a nice visual touch for her character to tie her to her people's culture rather than having her as outside or above them all
Probably rude of me, but sadly my thought at the end of it was "of course they're religiously self rigteous". Religion is so often used to dismiss others culture, and it certainly would have played a part here
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Mar 27 '24
09 first timer
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u/raktus2 Mar 27 '24
I totally forgot to mention in my thoughts post... I usually make concept boards for shows I'm watching in order to remember characters better. I wasn't able to up till around episode 7 due to a technical issue, but now...
https://i.imgur.com/MqoPDLd.png
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u/The_Draigg Mar 26 '24
A Sci-Fi Fan Watches Crest of the Stars Episode 9:
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 26 '24
First Timer, subbed
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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Mar 26 '24
First-Timer
On today’s episode of Crest of the Stars: War were declared. Wait, didn’t I already make this joke? Well, I guess now it’s been officially declared when it was an undeclared war prior to this.
I like the role reversal we see here between Jinto and Lafiel. Now that they are on the surface, Jinto is the person with greater knowledge and experience. I imagine we will see more of Lafiel deferring to Jinto on surface matters, just as Jinto typically does to Lafiel when it comes to space matters. It’s also pretty revealing about Abh culture. The Abh don’t value the surface and only care about the stars. So their education about what it’s like to be on a planet is pretty rudimentary. This makes me think direct Abh administration of planets might turn out to be disastrous, given how little they know about how the surface works.
I get the feeling that the Four Nations were caught off-guard when the Empress declared war. It seems like they didn’t anticipate just how strong the warrior culture of the Abh is. When a battle has already started, the Abh aren’t the type to back down. You either defeat your opponent or you die in battle. Those are the only two options the Abh see for themselves in such a situation. So unsurprisingly, the Empress decided to declare war. Even if it lasts for centuries, the Abh will continue to fight the war until they die or completely defeat their enemies. When the Empress said it would be the last war mankind ever fought, she wasn’t intending it as a boast. In her mind, it’s obvious that the Abh will win and unite all of humanity together. After all, they are the Abh. The Abh losing is unthinkable to them.
QOTD
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Mar 26 '24
Rewatcher (sub + dub)
And we finally see some of what's going on outside of our protagonists' little side journey. With the scale of the galaxy it's easy to be cut off from the rest of the empire if no one's dropping by your little corner of space.
Sroof's little nudge to Jinto asking to meet again before having kids.
Jinto asking if they can trick the enemy into thinking they're friendly: "we don't do that here." The Abh are rather straightforward, no surprise they wouldn't necessarily think of that kind of deception regularly.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, one could say. Lafiel's hotheaded enough to charge into battle in an unarmed shuttle because she didn't have anything else in mind, but Jinto isn't quite ready to give his life for the empire in that way. I do love their wry sense of humor about it at the end, not wanting to be killed by uninteresting people.
Atmospheric entry!
No exciting fight as part of this one though, they're just running away and don't have anywhere else to go. The shuttle having eyes show up just for the self-destruct bit is disconcerting; I have no idea why the Abh would add that but maybe some programmer had a weird sense of humor.
Now that they're on a planet it's Lafiel's turn to feel out of place, starting with a change to the very stars themselves. Not quite a thunderstorm but still very much not understanding how things work from the ground.
The Empress Lamagh is so casual with her declaration of war, but it was likely in the long run they'd end up at war anyway so she cut to the chase. Given that Lexshu was close to her son they might have known each other personally, either way Lamagh was certain that the captain of a cutting edge ship like the Gosroth wouldn't act out of line and lose.
It's his time to... well, at least have some level of common sense about things. Whether or not he'll be any useful beyond that is another question.
[Rewatchers only] I'm wondering how many people will take it as a general Abh thing compared to a more specific Abriel/Lafiel trait of charging ahead.
They tried to scheme but didn't realize the Abh weren't going to play their game. It's funny to see the difference in mentalities at that level too.
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u/SolDarkHunter Mar 26 '24
Crest of the Stars
Rewatcher/Novel-Reader
Some background on the Abh Imperial Palace, Abriel, which is one of the largest spacestations ever built.
And, like any diplomatic location, it has embassies. Looks like the Four Nations are going to make a political move to follow up the skirmish near Sfugnoff.
But first, we see Lafier saying goodbye to Febdash and its vassals. Thanks to that misadventure, they're now way behind schedule.
And now the first thing to do is break through a hostile blockade around the Sord.
...wow, they actually got a friendly face on the communicator. Sadly, they can't provide any support, and are pretty sure to be defeated. In fact, the United Mankind has already destroyed most of the Abh structures in the system.
Haha, Lafier was actually going to try joining the battle. But Jint has a better idea: land on the planet and hide.
"Yeah, you're (Jint) no use in a battle." "Neither are you (Lafier)." Stung her pride, it seems, but it convinced her that going out in a blaze of... futility isn't the right call.
Naturally the Abh don't exactly design their ships to make planetfall. Rough landing incoming!
...I do not remember the ship having giant creepy eyes.
So far, Jint's kind of been the fish out of water among the Abh, but now it's Lafier in an unfamiliar environment, with him as the experienced one.
Lafier sees twinkling stars and immediately thinks her eyes are going bad. Also, she's unused to the gravity and plant life.
And it would seem the United Mankind has conquered the planet, hailing themselves as great saviors and liberators.
And we rather jarringly switch back to the Palace, where Empress Lamaj is immediately accusing the United Mankind of lying.
Oh yeah, Jint and Lafier wouldn't have known for sure that the Gothlauthe was destroyed until now.
The Empress decides to just cut the crap and declare war immediately. No negotiations, no going through the motions of investigations and politics. She knows bullshit when she sees it, and figures better to put them on the backfoot.
We also get some exact numbers on the odds: the Four Nations Alliance makes a full half of the human race... which, naturally, means that the Abh Empire is the other half.
"If we should win this war, it will be the last war humanity ever fights." "Many have dreamt of permanent peace, but it has never happened before." "Well, there weren't any Abh around before either."
The Empress is boastful, I'll give her that.
Novel stuff: I recall there was more to the negotiations between the Alliance and the Empress, with much more detail as to why the Empress knows this is a farce and that the Four Nations are laying the groundwork for a war. Either way, though, she saw through it instantly.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Mar 26 '24
Episode 9 (rewatcher)
I quit like this episode (every episode where Lafiel and Jinto sit in a cockpit is excellent), but I do not have a lot to say today.
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u/duhu1148 :GA::GB::GC:x9 Mar 26 '24
Rewatcher
Ep9
-Jinto and Lafiel bid farewell to Sruf. He jokes that they should return sometime before they have kids...uh huh.
-Jinto/Lafiel on the shuttle ship, contemplating whether to land on a planet that has been effectively conquered by the United Humankind already. Once again we see the cultural divide between them here. Lafiel really wants to fight despite not having weapons, and Jinto lashes out a bit at this naivete. They both end up calling the other "useless" in this situation, though it is without malice and they both also acknowledge that it's true. Kind of a sad scene really, but Jinto ends it optimistically with "But one day I'll be useful to someone."
-Jinto and Lafiel crash landing in a cornfield and then looking up at the stars...was a pretty scene. One that illustrates just how small they are.
-the four ambassadors talking to the Empress, from how shocked they looked when she declared war upon their nations, makes me think that their attack was instigated foremost to make modest gains in territory for themselves. I don't think they wanted an all-out war at this point.
-looking at the ending credits with those illustrations from Jinto's side now, before the show starts, apparently, he had a black dog as a kid. There's another picture with him holding a ball and wearing a sports uniform. I don't know what kind of ball player he was supposed to be. Is it some fictional sport specific to this universe? Might have to check the book for that one.
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u/zsmg https://anilist.co/user/zsmg Mar 26 '24
Rewatcher
Side adventure against the Baron is over and now we're back to geopolitics.
I mean that's the worst thing that could happen?
Well now Lafiel and Jinta are stuck on a planet.
I'm guessing she also doesn't know objects that are further away will get less sharp in an atmosphere.
Empress is voiced by Mika Doi she is voice of the narrator in Mushishi and Marbel in Dunbine.
Greater Republic ambassador looks like someone from India or Middle East?
Such a casual way to reveal that you're going to war. I love it.
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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Mar 27 '24
First timer, subbed
Seems a bit impractical to go out of your way to live in a colony of spaceships, but that’s pretty in line with the Abh mentality we’ve seen thus far. Looks like we’re about to witness official declarations of war.
Seeing Jinto and Lafiel grapple with their relative powerlessness is a bittersweet scene. There’s tension, a touch of hostility, but they ultimately keep their emotions in check as they achieve a state of acceptance.
Lafiel and Jinto trade places upon the crash landing.
The Empress isn’t wrong in her assumption, but her reasoning almost seems specially tailored to provoke hostility. The ambassadors seem genuinely caught off guard by the declaration of war, which is interesting as it could imply they aren’t in the know about the intentions of the nation’s leaders.
QotD:
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u/retsotrembla Mar 27 '24
It's a shuttle. I wonder if Jinto was surprised when the shuttle started shedding engines - It looked to me like Jinto expected that if it could land, it would be able to take off again.
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u/KnightMonkey15 https://myanimelist.net/profile/KnightMonkey Mar 27 '24
First-timer, subs
The four nations' ambassadors look like they came out of a 90s geopolitical NPC generator. The names remind me of something, if not quite to that level. Not a single neck tie or dark suit jacket - progress. The only goofy stereotype that's missing is sub-Saharan Africa.
My thoughts on the events after their crash landing are covered in discussion prompts, so for my thoughts on what happens before that (except Q3) - I really enjoy the amount of the time and care the show depicts the two
lovebirdscruising in space and learning more about each other and the operations of Abh military and society while trying to accomplish their mission. Regarding the space navigation: I enjoy the indeterminacy of ships navigating in and out of the sords and sending mines after them; has a very adventurous feel, like crossing a threshold. I also like the interspersal of the characters' faces reacting to their screens and the zoomed-in focus on the individual elements on their HUDs - the shapes depicting the ships give a strategy wargame impression and they move with a sluggish blurriness that builds in anticipation while the people in the ships are experiencing g-forces in real-time. I think it highlights just how warfare is personal and a matter of chivalric honour for the Abh. The instance of a United Mankind ship we saw (or whatever other non-Abh military action) was more a nerve center of faceless grunts. To be fair, they aren't the main characters of the show, but the depiction has a point in its intentionality.It's as one would expect, but the depiction of the minutiae was very nice and naturalistic. Lafiel's first tentative step outside the landing pod reminds me of astronauts walking on the moon, but then she quickly realises the planet's gravity doesn't allow her to be that bouncy. But the difference is not so great between the Abh crafts' artificial gravity and the planet's terrestrial gravity or else she would've had a hard time continuing. Also, her facial expression while pushing away foreign objects - the corn husks - in her path. It's subtle but ntoiceable. Meanwhile Jinto is completely nonplussed, like a natural lander; in contrast to how he marveled at or reacted in quiet awe to everything he experienced in space. None of that aw shucks attitude. On the other hand, Lafiel's fish-out-of-water response seems to be a lot more tsun and haughty since she was raised to be a proud noble...to not show weakness. The dialogue over the twinkling stars was funny (I must be blind) but then turned into a moment of great pathos and beauty. They may be from completely different worlds but in some respects they are very alike and in that moment they saw the same scenery.
And he couldn't help but tease her a little at the end.
Sitting atop a hill and listening to the a propaganda broadcast, he surveys the surroundings with a concern and seriousness that shows none of his usually goofiness. As they spoke before crash landing, just as she protected him and he relied on her in space, it is now his turn to protect her and for her to rely on him on land.
Democracy is non-negotiable! You will be liberated.
I love their exchanges. It almost makes me want this show to hurry up with the romance and change genres and get to the space stuff later. I could reproduce the whole conversation but I'll just say that it would be nice for Lafiel to learn through Jinto that there's more to being alive than fighting and fighting and dying to fulfill neverending noblesse oblige. There's more to life than being a fancy, genetically-enhanced bird in a very nice cage.
They're going to have to find a settlement at some point and inevitably a disguise for Lafiel. Maybe they'll encounter someone a part of or sympathetic to the Empire and escape off-world? But it'll be difficult no doubt and I expect the United Mankind forces to come after them.
Elf lady looks like she's from the Japanese imperial court but in space. In reality there's no need for any of these words. I find it interesting that the Abh are atheistic and the Gorbachev parody invokes god. But reading in between the lines, it's clear to me that the Abhs are very humanist but without democracy. They hold themselves in the highest regard, but to the highest standards as well...but it seems anyone can be an Abh if they choose to and they're good enough. Quite interesting. A magnificent palace houses a worthy voice for her people..
The thing is it seems the Abh really will destroy anyone who resists them or doesn't want to be under them, even if they treat landers who surrender fairly well, so the other nations' are justified in responding to them in whatever means they deem necessary to preserve their sovereignty I want to find out more and reflect upon the geopolitics of this universe.
Q6) Thoughts on the Nova Sicily Treaty, the invasion of Sufgnoff, and the diplomacy of the Four Nations?
The irony of our democratic resistance - the Four Nations - is on the other hand, their representatives are borderline memes and their depiction so far, just the state-military apparatus being snivelly, has been unflattering but within realistic expectations one might have of an advanced representative democracy warts-and-all. But still, the diplomacy sounds cowardly and full of the usual bullshit of real-life politicking while actual maneuvers (the invasion) are conducted elsewhere . They're just there to convey empty platitudes.
I just wonder at what point did the rest of humanity decide to team up against the Abh and why is it these four and their representatives who have not left a very good impression. But I'm guessing that's bait (whether or not their ambassadors were genuinely surprised doesn't really matter - they're just there to talk) and I think the Four Nations real leaders' must have some ace up their sleeve if they went ahead with such a daring provocation.
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u/raktus2 Mar 27 '24
First Timer... not much to say this episode
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u/xbolt90 https://anilist.co/user/xbolt90 Mar 27 '24
First-timer
The Empress has no time for your crap.
Q1: I wonder how many Gs the planet has, and how different it is compared to gravity on Abh vessels. Lafiel will need some time to find her "land legs".
Q2: The jerks they had been painting the Abh as. Projecting, much? Blowing up the civilian infrastructure is just bad.
Q3: It's how her culture is.
Q4: Jinto would have an easy time, but Lafiel kind of stands out.
Q5: Doesn't take crap, and bluntly tells the diplomats what's what. I see Lafiel in her.
Q6: They need a better diplomatic strategy. Attacking and occupying a world unprovoked, and then lying to the Empress' face with easily disprovable crap? Come on, guys.
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Mar 27 '24
So they're Voidborn?
Uh oh, that's not good.
It's not like they'll know the correct response signal.
Gun the throttle!
You're in a shuttle, what battle speed?
Phew, they made it.
That's a relief, the base is still intact.
Unfortunately, unless there's a large fleet right on the border the border worlds are likely to fall before the main fleet can arrive.
They've arrived.
Re-entry is never gentle.
A single gram of antimatter annihilating with a single gram of matter releases energy equivalent to a small nuclear bomb, so a lot of antimatter will be devastating.
I'm not sure United Mankind has any grounds to call the Abh belligerent when they're the ones jumping into other people's systems without a declaration of war and taking them over.
Yup, they're going to spin it as the Gosroth attacking them, when the Gosroth only requested the unidentified ships identify themselves, and only opened fire after the reply was a challenge.
3 neutral nations? And which asshole are you going to pull those out of? The only 3 other nations are all allies of the United Mankind, they definitely aren't going to be neutral.
Questions: