There's also the intense grief that's going to well up when it hits them that a lot of their friends and family are gone. The mechanic chief, for instance, has lost his wife and baby, and war or no war, he's going to crash hard at some point when that creeps into his brain.
There will also be plenty of recriminations over who did what to whom in order to make it through the occupation. While the suicide bombing killed an entire class of collaborators, you know that there will be accusations of snitchery down the line as well.
Most interesting, though, will be watching the crew come back to the military life. The mechanic chief, for instance, spent most of the settlement year and occupation as a union organizer and rabble rouser; will he be satsfied to go back to taking orders, or will he want more of a say in how things are run? It's hard to let go of power and leadership once you've had it, especially in a precarious times.
In other words, yes, I thought it was a superb return. Very well done, very exciting, lots of open-ended questions.
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Date: 2006-10-21 06:08 pm (UTC)There will also be plenty of recriminations over who did what to whom in order to make it through the occupation. While the suicide bombing killed an entire class of collaborators, you know that there will be accusations of snitchery down the line as well.
Most interesting, though, will be watching the crew come back to the military life. The mechanic chief, for instance, spent most of the settlement year and occupation as a union organizer and rabble rouser; will he be satsfied to go back to taking orders, or will he want more of a say in how things are run? It's hard to let go of power and leadership once you've had it, especially in a precarious times.
In other words, yes, I thought it was a superb return. Very well done, very exciting, lots of open-ended questions.