On 8/30/16 7:45 PM, Freelance Traveller wrote:
> 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?
>
>

I believe Prisoner Of Honor about the Dreyfus affair has a very good
scene of Dreyfus being stripped of his rank and insignia before being
cashiered or sent to prison.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102715/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_55

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