The tension between the Director and the Counselor stems from the fact that the Counselor is a better war criminal than the Director. The Counselor has helped to administrate no less than nine military programs easy comparable to Freelancer in terms of atrocities committed, though he’s never listed on the payroll as anything more than a “consultant” and he makes sure to thoroughly document his objections to any and all questionable decisions, because documentation is an important part of any scientific endeavor.
The Counselor has an appreciation for subtlety. The Counselor is not merely a scientist but an artist, and knows exactly which lines can be crossed during wartime without consequence, and which cannot.
The Director is brash and unsubtle and this is a constant point of annoyance for the Counselor, whose experience in the field has given him a nuanced understanding of precisely when, for example, a MAC cannon may be fired at a civilian target without substantial repercussions, and when it cannot. (The former is a short list. Actually, it’s not so much a list as a complex algorithm taking into account no less than 30 data points relating to recent Covenant and Insurrectionist activity as well as public opinion regarding the UNSC and the state of the war. The Counselor has this algorithm programmed into his phone. It calculates in approximately seven seconds, based on currently available data.)
The Counselor also possesses a nuanced understanding of how public opinion shifts in peacetime, and has passed his meager free time for the past decade or so quietly and thoroughly preparing an exit strategy and a new identity which he is fully prepared to assume in the event that the war ever ends. The strategy shifts only slightly depending on the outcome of the war.
Dr. Church, the Counselor thinks (with exasperation, if not without a certain amount of affection) is an oaf and a clumsy excuse for a war criminal. Be a better war criminal, sir. Aim higher.
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