1. I am not an officer on this ship, hence my wage is not in relation with my rank. I am a civilian.
I haven't had any means of control on the ship. The control of the ship was passed according to the hierarchy (and it may even fall down to you if you continue killing officiers like that), and I haven't any say about it, simply because these military affairs are out of my juridiction.
3. I am a member of the Earth senate, and as such, the HongHu empire would have never trusted me such a potent (and potentially destructive) technology. Even if I had been envoyed to HongHu, I would have been monitored in this regard. And my middle-aged self is much easier to monitor than a young intrepidic shuttle pilot

Nor would it be a point of monitoring the individual, since you'd be sitting in your office while whoever it is you've hired is fetching you the goods. Slipping in a shuttle just like that, however, I figure would be rather complicated.
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