I do follow his logic though. Even if he didn't tell the location, Magnus would have got it out of them eventually either through pain or magic, then killed them. It was a no-win situation regardless.
“Then what should I have done, Beakbreaker?!” I scream. “Tell me! What should I have done?! Let you suffer?! Tell me! WHAT SHOULD I HAVE DONE?!”
Startled, Beakbreaker steps back. But she doesn’t scream back at me, and when she speaks, she’s calm and controlled, unmoved by my anger. “You should have put the lives of everyone else before mine.”
And here Silverspeak should've learned a lesson which he should've learned a long time ago: The needs of the many out-weighs the needs of the few. And just when I thought things couldn't get any darker.
9198798 The needs of the many do outweigh the few, but in this situation, it didn't matter. One way or another he would have got the location, the only difference would have been if they survived or not. Hell, I doubt Magnus even needed to torture them, I'm sure he had either the technology or magic ability to just take the location from him. The torture was just for his amusement and convenience.
Oh, well. I am not a sadist. I do not enjoy when others are in pain no matter what they have done. Yes Silverspeak, you sacrificed everything. And everyone. But bugger you are arrogant. Understand what? How much you do not care about them? It was a unnecessary punishment he got however. He could have been useful and like he said himself "getting everyone going takes priority over everything else." It was not the time for petty vengeance. Although, Beakbreaker. You do know he did this once before? When Chrysalis held you captive he made the same choice.
I really want to see were this story goes and a part of me still want Silverspeak to see Celestia at least once. My sympathy for him however is very low.
9198817 We do not know that and even if we did it would still have been a matter of principle. He chose what was more important to him.
Amusingly (in a rather dark way), they're doing the exact same thing as he did. Letting emotions rule over reason.
What Silverspeak did was very, very stupid, and cost thousands of lives.
What they did might cause the same thing. Revenge and justice are all well and good, but when you have double digit people, you need every person you can get. And the ammunition they wasted too.
In that regard, it should be very easy to understand why he did what he did. They weren't exactly much better.
Reading throught the last couple chapters was funny. Project Horisons funny. You just wonder how much will the author overdo it next time.
But honestly, this story feels like heavily inspired by the modern Star Wars movies, expecially Rogue One where search for the father is simlar to search for Beakbreaker and the bomb from the chapter where Sliverspeak faked running away from the resistance is unussually simlar to how the shot of the unfinished death star looked like.
The most stupid is that it all should be easily avoided by Silverspeak just lying that the resistance is ln the south pole or something. But guess we cant change what a self-centered fool Silverspeak it. You cant constantly have him constantly scape off victory and fuck up on all other fronts. It just becomes boring because you just move the stakes which can be done in better ways.
Edit: however, there might be a way to make Silverspeak a positive hero again. Mangus'es Plans. If the author steps up his game and proves the resistance dying was worth it to eventually foil the plan and save those encased in Amber. Kindda sad to see evry race besides changeling, dragon and pony to be beyond population recovery but eh.
They're not wrong, in any event. Silverspeak's choice did cost ten thousand lives. He had a few other options. The first of course was to not say at all, which sure, Beakbreaker would have been tortured over it, and it would have torn his heart out, but still. Green Wing was there when Silver Tongue revealed where Iron Hoof's hidden base was, so she would have been able to relay that information. It didn't require Silverspeak getting free to pass the information on. He could've lied about where the base was, too.
For probably the first time in all three stories, one of Silverspeak's actions has a very direct cause-and-effect that killed thousands of creatures (his actions have caused deaths before, but either in a 'the goods of some outweigh the goods of others', or where he couldn't have reasonably guessed somebody else would take advantage of whatever he did or said to cause chaos, like Mangus' havoc in Manehattan).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I do follow his logic though. Even if he didn't tell the location, Magnus would have got it out of them eventually either through pain or magic, then killed them. It was a no-win situation regardless.
And here Silverspeak should've learned a lesson which he should've learned a long time ago: The needs of the many out-weighs the needs of the few. And just when I thought things couldn't get any darker.
9198798 The needs of the many do outweigh the few, but in this situation, it didn't matter. One way or another he would have got the location, the only difference would have been if they survived or not. Hell, I doubt Magnus even needed to torture them, I'm sure he had either the technology or magic ability to just take the location from him. The torture was just for his amusement and convenience.
Oh, well. I am not a sadist. I do not enjoy when others are in pain no matter what they have done. Yes Silverspeak, you sacrificed everything. And everyone. But bugger you are arrogant. Understand what? How much you do not care about them? It was a unnecessary punishment he got however. He could have been useful and like he said himself "getting everyone going takes priority over everything else." It was not the time for petty vengeance. Although, Beakbreaker. You do know he did this once before? When Chrysalis held you captive he made the same choice.
I really want to see were this story goes and a part of me still want Silverspeak to see Celestia at least once. My sympathy for him however is very low.
9198817
We do not know that and even if we did it would still have been a matter of principle. He chose what was more important to him.
Amusingly (in a rather dark way), they're doing the exact same thing as he did. Letting emotions rule over reason.
What Silverspeak did was very, very stupid, and cost thousands of lives.
What they did might cause the same thing. Revenge and justice are all well and good, but when you have double digit people, you need every person you can get. And the ammunition they wasted too.
In that regard, it should be very easy to understand why he did what he did. They weren't exactly much better.
Reading throught the last couple chapters was funny. Project Horisons funny. You just wonder how much will the author overdo it next time.
But honestly, this story feels like heavily inspired by the modern Star Wars movies, expecially Rogue One where search for the father is simlar to search for Beakbreaker and the bomb from the chapter where Sliverspeak faked running away from the resistance is unussually simlar to how the shot of the unfinished death star looked like.
The most stupid is that it all should be easily avoided by Silverspeak just lying that the resistance is ln the south pole or something. But guess we cant change what a self-centered fool Silverspeak it. You cant constantly have him constantly scape off victory and fuck up on all other fronts. It just becomes boring because you just move the stakes which can be done in better ways.
Edit: however, there might be a way to make Silverspeak a positive hero again. Mangus'es Plans. If the author steps up his game and proves the resistance dying was worth it to eventually foil the plan and save those encased in Amber. Kindda sad to see evry race besides changeling, dragon and pony to be beyond population recovery but eh.
They're not wrong, in any event. Silverspeak's choice did cost ten thousand lives. He had a few other options. The first of course was to not say at all, which sure, Beakbreaker would have been tortured over it, and it would have torn his heart out, but still. Green Wing was there when Silver Tongue revealed where Iron Hoof's hidden base was, so she would have been able to relay that information. It didn't require Silverspeak getting free to pass the information on. He could've lied about where the base was, too.
For probably the first time in all three stories, one of Silverspeak's actions has a very direct cause-and-effect that killed thousands of creatures (his actions have caused deaths before, but either in a 'the goods of some outweigh the goods of others', or where he couldn't have reasonably guessed somebody else would take advantage of whatever he did or said to cause chaos, like Mangus' havoc in Manehattan).