from: jet.jaguar(a)Zalem.grunthal.fen
to: Undisclosed Recipient.
Subj: RE: the Professor.
I think I'm going to go against the grain here. I can tell the general jist of things already where this is going to go.
We've taken down Boskonian Mads before. From a practical standpoint, it wouldn't be a tough mission. This is what we do.
Three Kunstler were built by the Professor. 2 Willingly, and 1 under Scramble-09. We still have occasional dealings with him because of it. I was also part of the mission to retrieve the Professor from Boskone Prime.
The substantial difference between The Professor and the True Boskonian mads I've encountered, is that the Professor just doesn't seem to be in any way aware of the consequences of his actions - or even that they exist at all. Alita told me that she had to knock him out to drag him to the Nova, because he'd left one critical experiment running and refused to go. With a bombardment inbound. Which also means we're off his Christmas card list, but I'll take that in exchange for keeping him out of Boskone hands.
Because I won't disagree that he has the potential to be a danger -especially in the wrong hands. We were operating under explicit orders to kill him if we couldn't secure his retrieval, just to keep him from being used by the Boskone.
But that was war. And this isn't.
The Professor isn't intentionally dangerous. And that's an important difference. I'm no legal expert, but I think that's the difference between murder and manslaughter, for one. At least, I think the accused mindset has something to do with how their charged and punished, I'll defer to an expert on that.
But I've met Boskone Mads who knew beyond a Shadow of a Doubt that they were torturing people - they knew exactly what they were doing and they revelled in it. Some of these missions are a matter of public record - I won't go into details here. Jusenkyou, Nehallenia, Boskone Prime - that's the start of where I'm coming from. Take it from someone who's met them, The Professor just isn't anywhere near their league.
The long and the sort of it is this.
We won't move against him until we receive lawful orders to do so. If we're ordered to arrest the Professor in force, we will. If we're ordered to kill him - if the Convention and Great Justice can somehow decide that he is an active and immediate threat to Fenspace that cannot be stopped otherwise, or that other methods may be too risky in lives or materiel, I will.
But I would prefer to see him get his day before a tribunal because, honestly, I genuinely amn't sure he's properly sane in a legal way and I will want that question answered. Unless we're all OK with stuffing the mentally ill in prison because it'll make us feel better.
-Jet
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
to: Undisclosed Recipient.
Subj: RE: the Professor.
I think I'm going to go against the grain here. I can tell the general jist of things already where this is going to go.
We've taken down Boskonian Mads before. From a practical standpoint, it wouldn't be a tough mission. This is what we do.
Three Kunstler were built by the Professor. 2 Willingly, and 1 under Scramble-09. We still have occasional dealings with him because of it. I was also part of the mission to retrieve the Professor from Boskone Prime.
The substantial difference between The Professor and the True Boskonian mads I've encountered, is that the Professor just doesn't seem to be in any way aware of the consequences of his actions - or even that they exist at all. Alita told me that she had to knock him out to drag him to the Nova, because he'd left one critical experiment running and refused to go. With a bombardment inbound. Which also means we're off his Christmas card list, but I'll take that in exchange for keeping him out of Boskone hands.
Because I won't disagree that he has the potential to be a danger -especially in the wrong hands. We were operating under explicit orders to kill him if we couldn't secure his retrieval, just to keep him from being used by the Boskone.
But that was war. And this isn't.
The Professor isn't intentionally dangerous. And that's an important difference. I'm no legal expert, but I think that's the difference between murder and manslaughter, for one. At least, I think the accused mindset has something to do with how their charged and punished, I'll defer to an expert on that.
But I've met Boskone Mads who knew beyond a Shadow of a Doubt that they were torturing people - they knew exactly what they were doing and they revelled in it. Some of these missions are a matter of public record - I won't go into details here. Jusenkyou, Nehallenia, Boskone Prime - that's the start of where I'm coming from. Take it from someone who's met them, The Professor just isn't anywhere near their league.
The long and the sort of it is this.
We won't move against him until we receive lawful orders to do so. If we're ordered to arrest the Professor in force, we will. If we're ordered to kill him - if the Convention and Great Justice can somehow decide that he is an active and immediate threat to Fenspace that cannot be stopped otherwise, or that other methods may be too risky in lives or materiel, I will.
But I would prefer to see him get his day before a tribunal because, honestly, I genuinely amn't sure he's properly sane in a legal way and I will want that question answered. Unless we're all OK with stuffing the mentally ill in prison because it'll make us feel better.
-Jet
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?