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tanithryudo ([personal profile] tanithryudo) wrote in [personal profile] cashew 2024-08-19 08:05 am (UTC)

Right, the original point brought up was that safety is not guaranteed on any of the Xianzhou ships due to their state of enmity with the Abundance faction, and potential collateral damage involved in any major war. Then that led to the tangent of why Dan Shu went evil (or joined the side of Abundance in secret and betrayed the Luofu to Phantylia).

Dan Shu wasn't a Vidyadhara, BTW. So whatever beef the Vidyadhara, whether Luofu or elsewhere, have with the rest of the Xianzhou doesn't really factor.

Dan Shu's specific trigger for going nuts/evil was that her best friend was a field doctor who wasn't on the frontlines of the battle, but was still caught in the collateral damage of the nuke. Presumably, it wouldn't have mattered whether they called the nuke down on the Fanghu specifically or not. The blast damage from an Aeon's strike is always gonna hit a lot of collateral.

The decision and actions to trigger the nuke was done by the Xianzhou Alliance as a whole, so Dan Shu's beef was with the Xianzhou as a whole. However, she didn't have the power or influence to obviously declare war or rebellion or whatever directly. So her betrayal was carried out in secret and within her sphere of influence. Since she was the head of the Alchemy Commission on the Luofu, that was why she was the key to betraying the Luofu to Phantylia during the recent stellaron crisis.

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