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With the Icarans' willingness to slaughter women and children in self-defense, I think the threat of his own death was quite obvious to the Prophet, although it was still an abstract concept. So as I see it, Yu Lin wasn't emphasizing the threat, she was just trying to get his attention.
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It could definately be seen that way I suppose
afterall it definately got his attention!
And I wouldn't quite put it as "willingness to slaughter" as much as "indiscriminate fire", I mean when you turn an entire planet to molten slag you can't really single out men and soldiers from women and children.
As far as the "women and children" part goes, well Icarans have never seen women as any different then men, at least not in the past 6,000 years of their history, so marching into a town and shooting down any resistance man or woman isn't considered any different then a "normal" military marching in and shooting all male resistance down.
As far as Children go again they didn't quite "slaughter" the children so much as shoot them down to keep them from killing others since their parents were throwing them towards the soldiers.
And killing their parents didn't seem immoral by their standards because if you throw your kid as a bomb or encourage them to go suicide themselves on others then you really don't deserve any sympathy or mercy.
I hate to make a modern comparison like this but say if Icara had invaded Iraq instead of the United States or England, Icarans would have burned Faluja (sp?) to the ground or flat out bombed it with a few thousand artillery peices.
Anyone seen celebrating terrorist attacks would be executed and if it was a whole town it would pretty much be bombed into non existance.
As i said once before Icarans are brutal where brutality is required and they don't much care about YOUR collataral damage since you were the ones resisting to begin with hehe.
YAY I posted a chapter that is actually having some discussion about it
granted it was not my best chapter....but it wasn't my worst lol and if I do eventually do a rewrite it will be a LOT better!