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.With any luck, you won't actually have to appear in person in all of them.they certainly can't yank you out of yours just to answer two questions in some other jig's trial.It rushes you right now, but then your defense is simple anyway.""It is?""In principle.Were you a conspirator, intending to commit a mutiny? No.Were you a traitor, in the pay of a foreign power? No.Simple.I expect they'll ask all the awkward questions they can think of, just so it looks good, and in case the original investigators forgot to check.but it's clear to me, and should be clear to them, that you were an ordinary junior officer who reacted to a developing situation—luckily, in the best interests of both Fleet and the Familias Regnant.The only problem I see." He paused, and gave her a long look."Yes?" Esmay finally said, when waiting produced nothing but that steady stare."It's going to be difficult to present you as the ordinary junior officer—although your fitness reports support that, putting you right square in the middle of your class—when you became the very unordinary youngest-ever captain to blow away a Benignity heavy cruiser.They're going to file:///F|/rah/Elizabeth%20Moon/Moon,%20Eliz.rano%20Legacy%2004%20-%20Once%20A%20Hero.txt (20 of 207) [5/20/03 11:35:09 PM]want to know why you were hiding that kind of ability.how you hid that kind of ability.Why were you denying Fleet the benefit of your talent?""That's what Admiral Serrano said." Esmay forced her shoulders back; she wanted to hunch into a little ball."And what did you say?""I.couldn't answer.I don't know.I didn't know I could do it until I did it, and I still find it hard to believe.""Such modesty." Something in the tone chilled her."I'm your defense counsel, and more than that I'm an attorney with many years of experience—I was in civil practice and Fleet reserves before I went full-time into Fleet.You may be able to fool yourself, young woman, but you don't fool me.You did what you did because you are unusually capable.Some of that capability showed up on the screening exams you took to get into Fleet in the first place—or had you forgotten your scores?"She had; she had dismissed them as a fluke when her grades in the Fleet prep school came out only slightly above average."I'm now convinced," Chapin went on, "that you were not hiding your talents for any obvious reason—such as being a Benignity agent—but you were hiding them.You avoided command track as if it had thorns all over it.I pulled your file from prep school and talked to your instructors in the Academy too.They're all kicking themselves for not noticing, and nurturing, such an obvious talent for command—""But I made mistakes," Esmay said.She could not let this go on.She had been lucky, she had had outstanding senior NCOs who had done most of it.she rattled this off as fast as she could, while Chapin sat watching her with the same skeptical expression."It won't do," he said finally."For your own good, Lieutenant Suiza—" He had not called her that from the first day; she stiffened."For your own good," he repeated more softly."You must face what you are; you must admit how much of what happened was your doing.Your decisions—good ones.Your ability to take charge, to get that performance from those you commanded.It was no accident.Whether the court dwells on this or not, you must.If you truly did not know what you were capable of—if you didn't know you were hiding your abilities—then you must figure out why.Otherwise the rest of your life will be one mess after another." As if she had spoken, his finger came up and leveled at her."And no, you cannot go back to being just another ordinary junior officer, not after this.Whatever the court decides, reality has decided.You are special.People will expect more, and you'd better learn to handle that."Esmay struggled to keep calm.One corner of her mind wondered why it was so hard to believe she was talented; most of it concentrated on the need for control.The Board, technically considered an administrative and not a judicial procedure, had attracted no media attention, but the multiple courts martial of junior officers involved in a mutiny—and then in the successful defense of Xavier—was too juicy to miss.Fleet kept the defendants isolated as long as it could, but Chapin warned Esmay that politics demanded the courts be open to selected media coverage."Usually no one much cares about courts-martial," he said."The rare one that has some publicity value is usually kept closed, on the grounds of military necessity.But this case—or rather, all your cases—are unique in Familias history.We've had to court-martial groups of officers before—the Trannvis Revolt, for instance—but we've never had to court-martial a group that had done something good.That has the newshounds baying for blood.not yours, yet, but any blood that happens to hit the ground.And in a situation this complex, someone's going to bleed."Esmay grimaced."I wish they wouldn't—""Of course.And I don't want you sitting over the screens keeping track of the media; it will only tie you in knots.But you needed to know before you went in that there will be media there, and file:///F|/rah/Elizabeth%20Moon/Moon,%20Eliz.rano%20Legacy%2004%20-%20Once%20A%20Hero.txt (21 of 207) [5/20/03 11:35:09 PM]they'll try to get statements from you between sessions, even though they have been told you are forbidden to give them.Just don't say anything, anything at all, while you're going from the courtroom to the rooms where you'll be sequestered between sessions.I don't have to tell you to keep a composed face; you always do."Despite the warning, the mass of video and audio pickups, the competing voices of the media interviewers, were like a blow to the face on her first trip between the defendants' suite and the courtroom."Lieutenant Suiza, is it true that you killed Captain Hearne yourself—?""Lieutenant Suiza, just a word about Commander Serrano, please—?""There she is—Lieutenant Suiza, how does it feel to be a hero?""Lieutenant Suiza, what will your family think about your being court-martialed—?"She could feel her face settling into a stony mask, but behind that mask she felt helpless, terrified.A murderer? A hero? No, she was a very junior lieutenant who could happily have stayed in obscurity for decades yet.Her family's opinion of courts-martial.she didn't want to think about that.Mindful of the publicity problem, she had sent only the briefest message to them—and asked them not to reply.She didn't trust even Fleet ansibles to keep such messages secure under the pressure of every news service in the Familias.Inside the courtroom, she faced another bank of media pickups.Even as she followed the ritual of the court, she could not fail to be aware that every word, every fleeting expression, would be broadcast across the worlds for all to see.Chapin, waiting at the defense table, muttered "Relax, Lieutenant; you look as if you were about to try the court and not the other way around."All the cases were linked by the need for officers to testify about each other's behavior—because of the need to determine whether the mutiny resulted from a conspiracy.But Esmay, as the senior surviving officer, had been nominally charged with additional violations of the Code.Chapin had emphasized that the charges were required—that he expected a fairly quick dismissal of most of them, given that no evidence supported them [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.With any luck, you won't actually have to appear in person in all of them.they certainly can't yank you out of yours just to answer two questions in some other jig's trial.It rushes you right now, but then your defense is simple anyway.""It is?""In principle.Were you a conspirator, intending to commit a mutiny? No.Were you a traitor, in the pay of a foreign power? No.Simple.I expect they'll ask all the awkward questions they can think of, just so it looks good, and in case the original investigators forgot to check.but it's clear to me, and should be clear to them, that you were an ordinary junior officer who reacted to a developing situation—luckily, in the best interests of both Fleet and the Familias Regnant.The only problem I see." He paused, and gave her a long look."Yes?" Esmay finally said, when waiting produced nothing but that steady stare."It's going to be difficult to present you as the ordinary junior officer—although your fitness reports support that, putting you right square in the middle of your class—when you became the very unordinary youngest-ever captain to blow away a Benignity heavy cruiser.They're going to file:///F|/rah/Elizabeth%20Moon/Moon,%20Eliz.rano%20Legacy%2004%20-%20Once%20A%20Hero.txt (20 of 207) [5/20/03 11:35:09 PM]want to know why you were hiding that kind of ability.how you hid that kind of ability.Why were you denying Fleet the benefit of your talent?""That's what Admiral Serrano said." Esmay forced her shoulders back; she wanted to hunch into a little ball."And what did you say?""I.couldn't answer.I don't know.I didn't know I could do it until I did it, and I still find it hard to believe.""Such modesty." Something in the tone chilled her."I'm your defense counsel, and more than that I'm an attorney with many years of experience—I was in civil practice and Fleet reserves before I went full-time into Fleet.You may be able to fool yourself, young woman, but you don't fool me.You did what you did because you are unusually capable.Some of that capability showed up on the screening exams you took to get into Fleet in the first place—or had you forgotten your scores?"She had; she had dismissed them as a fluke when her grades in the Fleet prep school came out only slightly above average."I'm now convinced," Chapin went on, "that you were not hiding your talents for any obvious reason—such as being a Benignity agent—but you were hiding them.You avoided command track as if it had thorns all over it.I pulled your file from prep school and talked to your instructors in the Academy too.They're all kicking themselves for not noticing, and nurturing, such an obvious talent for command—""But I made mistakes," Esmay said.She could not let this go on.She had been lucky, she had had outstanding senior NCOs who had done most of it.she rattled this off as fast as she could, while Chapin sat watching her with the same skeptical expression."It won't do," he said finally."For your own good, Lieutenant Suiza—" He had not called her that from the first day; she stiffened."For your own good," he repeated more softly."You must face what you are; you must admit how much of what happened was your doing.Your decisions—good ones.Your ability to take charge, to get that performance from those you commanded.It was no accident.Whether the court dwells on this or not, you must.If you truly did not know what you were capable of—if you didn't know you were hiding your abilities—then you must figure out why.Otherwise the rest of your life will be one mess after another." As if she had spoken, his finger came up and leveled at her."And no, you cannot go back to being just another ordinary junior officer, not after this.Whatever the court decides, reality has decided.You are special.People will expect more, and you'd better learn to handle that."Esmay struggled to keep calm.One corner of her mind wondered why it was so hard to believe she was talented; most of it concentrated on the need for control.The Board, technically considered an administrative and not a judicial procedure, had attracted no media attention, but the multiple courts martial of junior officers involved in a mutiny—and then in the successful defense of Xavier—was too juicy to miss.Fleet kept the defendants isolated as long as it could, but Chapin warned Esmay that politics demanded the courts be open to selected media coverage."Usually no one much cares about courts-martial," he said."The rare one that has some publicity value is usually kept closed, on the grounds of military necessity.But this case—or rather, all your cases—are unique in Familias history.We've had to court-martial groups of officers before—the Trannvis Revolt, for instance—but we've never had to court-martial a group that had done something good.That has the newshounds baying for blood.not yours, yet, but any blood that happens to hit the ground.And in a situation this complex, someone's going to bleed."Esmay grimaced."I wish they wouldn't—""Of course.And I don't want you sitting over the screens keeping track of the media; it will only tie you in knots.But you needed to know before you went in that there will be media there, and file:///F|/rah/Elizabeth%20Moon/Moon,%20Eliz.rano%20Legacy%2004%20-%20Once%20A%20Hero.txt (21 of 207) [5/20/03 11:35:09 PM]they'll try to get statements from you between sessions, even though they have been told you are forbidden to give them.Just don't say anything, anything at all, while you're going from the courtroom to the rooms where you'll be sequestered between sessions.I don't have to tell you to keep a composed face; you always do."Despite the warning, the mass of video and audio pickups, the competing voices of the media interviewers, were like a blow to the face on her first trip between the defendants' suite and the courtroom."Lieutenant Suiza, is it true that you killed Captain Hearne yourself—?""Lieutenant Suiza, just a word about Commander Serrano, please—?""There she is—Lieutenant Suiza, how does it feel to be a hero?""Lieutenant Suiza, what will your family think about your being court-martialed—?"She could feel her face settling into a stony mask, but behind that mask she felt helpless, terrified.A murderer? A hero? No, she was a very junior lieutenant who could happily have stayed in obscurity for decades yet.Her family's opinion of courts-martial.she didn't want to think about that.Mindful of the publicity problem, she had sent only the briefest message to them—and asked them not to reply.She didn't trust even Fleet ansibles to keep such messages secure under the pressure of every news service in the Familias.Inside the courtroom, she faced another bank of media pickups.Even as she followed the ritual of the court, she could not fail to be aware that every word, every fleeting expression, would be broadcast across the worlds for all to see.Chapin, waiting at the defense table, muttered "Relax, Lieutenant; you look as if you were about to try the court and not the other way around."All the cases were linked by the need for officers to testify about each other's behavior—because of the need to determine whether the mutiny resulted from a conspiracy.But Esmay, as the senior surviving officer, had been nominally charged with additional violations of the Code.Chapin had emphasized that the charges were required—that he expected a fairly quick dismissal of most of them, given that no evidence supported them [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]