In the higher reaches of ones ultimate goal, to fight an honorable war is to do so with as little or no cost to ones race by following the Code. Sufficient warning has been issued as to the consquences of certain actions that have brought your people to the possibility of extinction or enslavement. Therefore, the honorable thing is to ensure your peoples survival. Honor causes one to issue a warning as to possible consquences. That has been done, thus honor has been satisfied. The plague bomb is a tool to ensure a fast and quick end to the ravages of your people and planets by those with less then honor, ensuring that after their demise, certain planets shall be brought under you influence in the form of colonies with as little damage as possible to propigate the furtherance of your race.
just some ideas mac
ps; Klingons fight with honor and yet look at some of the things they have done. Therefore, Honor means different things to different species. "So TS, Smoke them all" show no mercy
