Ninth: A Tactical Decision (Text; anon)

[corpsewarblade]

(TW: Murder/Sororicide, Betrayal, DR Spoilers)

[The last few months had given Mukuro a lot to think about- especially with regard to her own death back home. One part still didn't make any sense to her:

What had she done wrong? Why had Junko killed her?

...It was with those thoughts swimming around in her head that she sent another late night message to the network.]

27 AUG XX, 0324

Reviewing the strategy from a recent battle at home. I want to understand the rational for the decisions taken.

A soldier is engaged in a stealth/undercover mission. However, they have made a mistake that risks the operation's success, and have not realised their error.

The mission commander is in a position to eliminate the operative to preserve their mission, without exposing themselves in the process.

Is that course of action reasonable? To put it another way- under what circumstances would you consider sacrificing one of your own men to ensure a mission's success or to prevent it's failure?

Don't feel you have to answer.


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Comments

[fireandhoney]

If it came down to sacrificing one person in order to save the lives of many, then it would be acceptable.

[corpsewarblade]

Only then? You're not the first on this post to draw the line there.

[Which...was an awkward line to draw, all things considered. Her mission certainly wasn't saving any lives.]

[fireandhoney]

That's the major reason, yes. Say this was your one and only chance to pull this mission off, and failure means that more people will die. I'd still feel shitty about it, but it would be for a greater good.

[He could give other reasons, but that would be giving away a huge secret of his. Even if he is on a different world, he still feels the need to keep certain dark things about himself under wraps.]

[corpsewarblade]

So it depends on the mission, the ability to fall back and regroup, and the cost of failure. That's simple enough reasoning.

...In this case, falling back and regrouping was the intended tactic, but

[But her Commander had other ideas.]

[fireandhoney]

but you just decided to go with the backstabbing option

[corpsewarblade]

She didn't stab me in the back.

...But you're not the first one to say that.