Fear tactics can sometimes be so ingrained into a culture, especially military culture, that there is the possibility — however distant — that she was showing confidence in her own leadership rather than trying to provoke us. Something to cow us with how easily she found and dispatched people who tried crossing her. Now there's simply no way to tell if that was her original intent or not; she wouldn't claim anything that wouldn't make her appear in control from the start.
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Fear tactics can sometimes be so ingrained into a culture, especially military culture, that there is the possibility — however distant — that she was showing confidence in her own leadership rather than trying to provoke us. Something to cow us with how easily she found and dispatched people who tried crossing her. Now there's simply no way to tell if that was her original intent or not; she wouldn't claim anything that wouldn't make her appear in control from the start.