Sheridan on Illegal Orders

"No Surrender, No Retreat". Captain Sheridan leads the White Star fleet to relieve Proxima 3 from an Earth Alliance punitive expedition after a flotilla of EarthForce destroyers led by Captain Hall destroyed refugee ships attempting to escape the system. Sheridan preemptively shreds any attempts at the "superior orders" defense by couching his surrender demand in Earth Alliance civilian and military law, then reminds his former naval academy instructor Captain MacDougan that he himself taught Sheridan that a soldier is expected to know whether or not an order is legal and moral.

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Just Following Orders