Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera is one of the most different stories I’ve read. Just so much different about it that it’s hard to even describe. Plus a twist end that actually had me going “no fuckin way” out loud.

I lucking fove Runny Babbit. Any time there’s a rabbit around I’ll be calling it Runny Babbit and nobody understands me

Helps that 5 to 0 on a scale of 1 to 100 is basically nothing. Basically every intelligence report said they weren’t working towards weapons.

Is it because you went in alone?

Notably it crashed on his house and caused a fire when it was shot down by Russia (seemingly without much regard for civilian safety).

Anything to frame Ukraine as the bad guys deserving that genocide tho right?

Very free. Utopic even.

I don’t see where it’s clarified that the ship was unarmed or if that would make it somehow not a military target? It’s not a civilian ship, it’s a military vessel.

Call me crazy, but in a race of most-illegal, attacking a legal target in an illegal war seems like a pretty low hanging fruit. A lot of making something out of nothing vibe when there’s plenty of somethings to actually talk about.

Again, assuming I didn’t miss where it’s outlined that this isn’t the case, but a WARship being attacked by another WARship (submarine if there’s a technical difference but that’s not my point) in a WAR just doesn’t seem like an ethical dilemma beyond the shitty reasons for the illegal war in the first place.