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Originally posted by Imagination
Today's question - when Colonial 1 is targeted by a missile, Roslin mutters "where's our escort?" so she WAS concerned about getting killed.
When the two Cylons next show up and Apollo urges a quick retreat as they have no defenses, Roslin refuses to leave. Now, is this because Roslin has gathered the rag tag fleet and is now the leader of them ALL and wants to face the same destruction as they do
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In a sense. When she was upset about not having an escort, she was just the Secretary of Education on her own plane. If an escort showed up and everything was saved, well, she's just the secretary of education--and nobody was hurt by her pique. Later, there were others who looked to her for leadership. Were she to abandon them then, she could never have lived down the situation. She would forever have been branded coward, forsaker, and merciless, even if there were nothing she could have done. The only thing that makes her later abandonment of civilians in the least bit acceptable was that it was a sacrifice made so that at least all who could get away did get away. She was saving more than just her skin--she was saving everybody who could be saved at all.