Fireflair wrote:I'm not sure that anyone would want to do something for 70 plus years. Doldrums and such.
A reason that the RMN cycles senior officers from place to place after a few years, even teaching, is so that they don't get stale and they maintain an appreciation of operational realities. That's very important.
I don't think we want to end up with a bunch of arm chair intellectuals who are coasting on past glories when the modern world of the military is vastly different from what they experienced. Honor enjoys teaching a great deal and some things might be able to be taught the same but in order to remain a valid teacher I think she'd have to stay on active duty, moving in and out of active commands deployed around the empire.
We only have to consider that no "elderly" officers were spoke of at the beginning of the series or anywhere within. How old would Saganami have been? He would have been on his last legs when Honor got Hawkwing. But surely there should have been other younger officers around who served with Saganami still involved with the navy in some capacity.