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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7551491" data-attributes="member: 177">He may be the first in that conflict, but certainly, there have been other conflicts.&nbsp; The policy exists for a reason, right?&nbsp; A lot of people would look at this sort of thing and tell us it is a plot hole.&nbsp; I look at it and try to figure out what the fact of it implies about the world (okay, galaxy) in question.&nbsp; Why is it that this *hasn't* gotten around so that everyone knows Union officers give fake codes first? For example:&nbsp; The Union always wins.&nbsp; Those who have discovered this in the past have since been beaten or subsumed, so that they don't talk about it.Folks were all worried about how the admirals were going to pitch a fit over letting her go.&nbsp; Nobody mentioned how many people were going to get court marshaled for letting a hostile spy onto a starship crew!!!&nbsp; Someone had to do some serious records-falsification, and is gonna get hung from a yardarm for their trouble...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7551491, member: 177"] He may be the first in that conflict, but certainly, there have been other conflicts. The policy exists for a reason, right? A lot of people would look at this sort of thing and tell us it is a plot hole. I look at it and try to figure out what the fact of it implies about the world (okay, galaxy) in question. Why is it that this *hasn't* gotten around so that everyone knows Union officers give fake codes first? For example: The Union always wins. Those who have discovered this in the past have since been beaten or subsumed, so that they don't talk about it. Folks were all worried about how the admirals were going to pitch a fit over letting her go. Nobody mentioned how many people were going to get court marshaled [i]for letting a hostile spy onto a starship crew!!![/i] Someone had to do some serious records-falsification, and is gonna get hung from a yardarm for their trouble... [/QUOTE]

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