Thread:Sakaros/@comment-29301-20180903145046/@comment-29301-20191231203921

So I thought a bit more on the story, and glanced through parts of it at random. As for your questions here and on the chat:

1. How Alecto assesses and deals with her competing loyalties to the Brotherhood and the Sith

Despite the fact that I've never found the Anzati particularly interesting in themselves, I like what they seem to be bringing out of the story, far as Alecto's character arc goes. It seems that even as she becomes a more powerful and better-established Sith Lord, she also grows more vulnerable, as now her enemies can hurt her by hurting people around her - most of all Nevya, obviously, and to an extent the rest of the Brotherhood. Protective as she is of her Sith minions, I doubt she'd shed a tear if any of them (even Megaera or Zeff) bit the dust.

I'm curious about how it'll all end up. If I had to guess, I'd predict either Alecto ultimately doesn't find revenge satisfying enough to stay on the dark side, or she learns to stop caring about others, including her "brethren", and gets more-or-less permanently committed.

2. Favorite and least favorite moments, if any stood out

Favorite Moment: In Part 14, where Maik Todden gets taken out by the shapeshifter. It took me by surprise in the exact way that it should; my attention was diverted in much the same way as the hapless policewoman's was.

Unfavorite Moment: In Part 12, those two Sith guys flirting with one another. I know this is space, and Sith are the last people who would be likely to care about chastity (and if anything, unchastity would probably be a requirement in their training), but I really could've done without that image in my head.

3. Alecto re-promoting Zurgharjhen

I haven't much thoughts on it. But he's one of the minion squad's members that I never get mixed up with anyone else. And even though he's basically dumb muscle, he grows less dumb than average for that role. So I like that he gets a bit of character development.