It's not often shown in fiction (though occasionally it is), but a
character who has been discharged from service (or written out of the
family/clan, or some other generally-equivalent situation) with dishonor
often makes for good story-telling, especially if the discharge and the
dishonor were undeserved.

I'm going to, once again, see if I can come up with a story that's worth
sharing if it gets completed. (Yes, I said 'if'. I don't have a very
good record on that score...) My current idea is to start the story with
the flashback to the day that the protagonist was 'read out' of the
service (or whatever you wish to call the event). Unfortunately, I don't
have very many examples of such a 'ceremony', and I'd like some ideas.
Does anyone have any that they'd like to share? They can be real-world,
fictional, from any service, club, clan, et cetera, a mash-up of any
combination of the above, whatever, as long as the result 'feels
realistic'. (Yes, I more-or-less recall the Honor Harrington scene where
Pavel Young was drummed out of the RMN, and also the scene from ST:TNG
where Worf was discommended.)

The setting is intended to be largely compatible with the Third Imperium
setting of Classic/Mongoose Traveller (i.e., not an Expansion (M0),
Rebellion, or New Era setting), but the location hasn't been determined,
and neither has the service that the protagonist formerly served in
(which need not be Imperial, or even an Imperial world; Julian,
Solomani, or minor Human polity are all valid choices - the only
constraints, really, are that the character is Human, and there will not
be any psionics in the story).

Help?

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