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Originally Posted by houkoholic

Most of the Fed soldiers are cold enough to not bother (as shown by that Fed soldier driving the car), the crew of Diva has no time to do it, so where's that "someone" you are talking about?



It's completely relevant. Just because they have civilian shelter zones you also have to consider *how* you get them there. For example if the zone is not on the route that Diva was traveling on, would you, as a captain, divert your entire ship to drop off a few kids? Or do you park your ship, risk being discovered as well as delay your operation, and dispatch some light transportation to do so (if you have any, which doesn't seem to be the case on Diva, in which case they do what? send out the MS team?!).

The point is to remove the children from the Diva, not for the Diva to transport them.

Or, if you are on a remote military base where the shelter is at least several hundreds of kilometres away with the most common transportation route in risk of enemy presences/occupation (remember Vagan took 40% of Earth in a short period of time and are still actively moving/expanding) would you risk sending soldiers or military vehicles to escort a few kids there? etc You seem to have this idea that to ship off the kids is as easy as just calling a cab or take a bus or something when in fact it involves much more unusual logistics and risk than that. On the other hand if you just keep them on Diva at most you consume a few more rations on a ship that most people actively despises and treat as the waste disposal ship where you put your unwanted crap, I'd know what route a lazy soldier would take given the choice.

If the Diva is going into space, then that's where we can assume the major battles will be held. So leave the children on Earth and let the people on Earth worry about transporting the children. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they can find a way.

Yeah only to have the subordinates actively spite the order like I've said - you know just like how the current crew of Diva got assigned there in the first place, or did you not watch that episode? Orders might be given by the top, but whether it is carried out properly is in the hands of those actually doing it. Discipline is when this comes in, yet this is also the area where the Feds constantly shows they lack in any Gundam show.

Just because there are bad people in the military doesn't mean there are no good people.

And besides, if they're going to use that excuse, then they should at least address it the show. Otherwise, it just look like those children are really supposed to be there.