ancillary justice ch 9 -16

Ch 9 pg 126

Narrator tries to convince the doctor to give them the gun so they can try to kill the emperor.

Ch 10 pg 140

Back in the past on the hot wet planet.  The emperor tells lieutenant Awn to go back to her ship.  She's being replaced tomorrow.  The lieutenants and narrator talk about the killing of the rich and who benefits. The emperor is the obvious answer cause they made it all happen. but they still can't think of how.  Narrator fascinates about killing the emperor instead of shooting the rich it was commanded to kill.

Ch 11 pg 154

Narrator (who were gonna call Breq now) talks the doctor into selling her the gun that can shoot through shields with the promise they will use it to kill as many emperors as possible.  

Ch 12

Narrator (who I'm gonna keep calling narrator her cause it's a ship with a long name) suddenly sees two emperors show up and they order narrator to take them to the empty place closest to the ships memory banks.  Narrator is pretty sure the emperor pulled some shit like this before and wiped the ships memory of it.

Ch 13

  Breq and the other radchaai they saved from freezing to death in chapter 1 (named seivardaan) go to the equator cause that's where they can get a ship the hell out of here.   Seivardaan is a drug addict and sells their glider to get some money to get high.  Breq walks to the next town.  Seivardaan catches up with them.  They walk across the one cool thing on this planet, a mysterious glass bridge.  They have a confrontation on said bridge and seivardaan falls off.  But he catches himself and Breq has this bad idea to dive down, catch seivardaan and their shields will save them when they hit whatevers at the bottom.  But it goes badly cause seivardaan sold his shield to buy drugs and get high a while back.

Ch 14 pg 202

Io9.com called this book mind blowing.  I wonder if this chapter is the start of that for them.  Narrator and the two  (maybe 3) emperors are the only people on this deck.  Emperor tells narrator to show them stuff and to delete certain things,  but narrator finds it can show emperor false memories and not delete things its told to.

There are two factions of emperors.  The one that's here with narrator is against the reformation and likes the rich people being in charge and promotion due to nepotism never ending process of taking over new systems and pillaging those systems to make Radchaai even richer.  

The other faction of emperors is trying to make their society more of a meritocracy and wants to stop the Annexations. This faction seems to be in charge as it has been announced as law that people be placed and promoted based on their accomplishments and not their family or money. Also the annexations are stopping.  Even if the incident hadn't happened narrator would have left the system because this was their last annexation. The emperor here implies that all this reform and what not is somehow the fault of the Presger, who I believe are the planet that had the guns that can shoot through shields.

Ch 15 pg 218

Breq wakes up in the hospital and Seivardaan is there.  Turns out he didn't spend the money on drugs,  he sold the glider with the intention to use the money for drugs, but hadn't gotten around to it yet.  So hes spending said money on breq's medical treatment.

It's not a presger gun, it's a Garsedaai gun.  And Seivardaan knows about it.  Breq thinks to tell Seivardaan about killing an emperor or two and why, but then realizes he wouldn't understand because he was frozen for a thousand years as society changed and the impact of the two emperor factions had on the galaxy to the point that Breq wanted to kill the emperor.  So brew starts by talking about and important historical event that happened while Seivardaan was frozen.

Ch 16

The emperor is asking narrator a bunch of questions about which side each member of the crew is on politically and narrator tries to come up with answers that sound good but don't get anybody into trouble.  After a bunch of this the emperor eventually tells narrator to bring lieutenant Awn to them.  Then lieutenant Awn gets grilled by the emperor and eventually emperor commands narrator to kill lieutenant Awn.  Not wanting to blow their cover, narrator does what they're told.  Then narrator loses it and kills one of the emperors.  The emperor blows up the ship, but not before one ancillary gets away.

ancillary justice ch 1 through 8

Ch 1

Narrator finds an injured person and burses them back to health.  Narrator says he thought this person dead a thousand years ago so it makes me think theyre a robot. 

Ch 2

19 years and some change ago Narrator was a space ship.   What we saw in chapter 1 was what they called an ancillary. A human body taken over by an AI like Narrator. 

Th8s chapter takes place in the far past on a planet where narrator's shipness is in orbit and has 20 or so ancillaries on the planet.  It is a hot wet planet.

Ch 3 pg 27

Narrator rents a glider to take the injured person somewhere.  But the glider is a trap.  It's got a fake fuel gage and they run out of fuel.  The renter and some people she recognizes from the bar where she found the injured person try to rob her.  Narrator ( I keep wanting to use the pronoun she, I think cause Narrator uses it for everyone even if theyre male ) shoots them dead.  Narrator uses the glider the would be robbers came in on to get where they're going. It's an abandoned cabin.

Also, this is an ice planet, so the stakes here were pretty high.

Ch 4 pg 42

Back to the past on the hot wet planet.

The stakes are low because its the past and also its hard to worry that any harm would come to a single ancillary when there's 20 of them and a ship in orbit.

Narrator works for lieutenant Ann who works with lieutenant skaaiat.  They're meeting with local rich people and said local rich talk about the minorities on their planet how theyre flawed and as such the rich deserve to rule over them and its upsetting that under the rule of the Radchaai the poors seem to get preferential treatment. From the perspective of lieutenant Ann its that under Radchaai rule the poors are being given opportunities that they never would have had before.

On their way back to quarters lieutenant Skaaiat explains that everyone that is successful is doing it in one way or another on the backs of some oppressed people somewhere.  The rich of this planet aren't in any way worse than the Radchaai that took over the planet. 

Ch 5 pg 65

Odd chapters are the present on the ice planet.  Even chapters are the past on the tropical planet.

The owner of the cabin shows up.  The reason narrator is here is because the house owner has a gun that can shoot through Radchaai force fields and narrator wants to use it to kill the Radchaai emperor. 

Ch 6 pg 87

Past tropical planet. 

Guns are found.  This is bad. What's worse is they are guns that were already confiscated and put up on the ship that is out narrator. 

Also, the Radchaai emperor pays a visit and s especially rude to lieutenant Awn.  They also piss off the rich people cause the first place they visit is the poor people's temple.

Ch 7 pg 101

Present cold planet.

Injured people show up and the owner of the house doctors them.

Ch 8

Past hot planet

The emperor visits and in the midst of said visit communications are cut and rich people come down to the temple demanding justice claiming a rich person's niece was murdered by poor people.  They talk about how they know guns were placed in the lake and they claim its part of a plan by the poor people to commit violence against the rich.  

The emporer asks lieutenant awn for a private word.  Lieutenant Awn tells the emperor that this is all a rich people's scheme.  The emperor orders lieutenant awn shoot the rich.  In a usual suspectsesque moment lieutenant awn realizes the person high up that allowed for the guns to be placed in the lake must have been the emperor. Narrator shoots the rich as ordered.  The hanging Chad here is how the emperor benefits from this scheme.