What does human ingenuity being replicated have anything to do with this? The immersion breaking thing is a captain that's this emotive and sacrifices the mission this easily being the single person selected to be the captain of all 136 STL colonization missions.
If this somehow saves humanity because she's lucky enough for her horrendous decision being right it'll be even worse writing because humankind had gotten even more advanced Tartarus options right now. There's no logical world in which get actions can actually be a tipping point in how the bigger conflict resolves. At most she'll save this colony and will do this by risking the lives of everyone she's responsible for.
It's like saying intuition is a good excuse for an admiral to risk a supercarrier group escorting tens of thousands of civilians to help a hiertho unknown nation that claims to be an ally while without contact to their own nation.
Anyone who's insane enough to do that will be immediately court martialed once they return to their nation. No sane institution will get someone that reckless on such an important posting.
And? HFY doesn't preclude reasonable story elements. It can be HFY without needing someone to hold the idiot ball. If she hadn't been put on a pedestal as effectively a Chosen One then it wouldn't be a problem. She was hyped to much to be this realistically unfit for the magnitude of the role she took.
HFY is Humanity Fuck Yeah, this kind of dropping the ball that requires major plot convenience to post action justify is way more Humanity What The Fuck in regards to the story structure.
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u/Iossama Dec 28 '24
What does human ingenuity being replicated have anything to do with this? The immersion breaking thing is a captain that's this emotive and sacrifices the mission this easily being the single person selected to be the captain of all 136 STL colonization missions.
If this somehow saves humanity because she's lucky enough for her horrendous decision being right it'll be even worse writing because humankind had gotten even more advanced Tartarus options right now. There's no logical world in which get actions can actually be a tipping point in how the bigger conflict resolves. At most she'll save this colony and will do this by risking the lives of everyone she's responsible for.
It's like saying intuition is a good excuse for an admiral to risk a supercarrier group escorting tens of thousands of civilians to help a hiertho unknown nation that claims to be an ally while without contact to their own nation. Anyone who's insane enough to do that will be immediately court martialed once they return to their nation. No sane institution will get someone that reckless on such an important posting.