fairness and justice.
It was unfair and unjust to unseat a sitting mayor.
Myrth have you sat down and spoken with Aishe at all?
You seem to have concluded things about her based on what you've heard from others about her past or from who she has associations with.
Aishe is not a bad person. Nor Wyllow for that matter.
Part of fairness and justice would have been giving her a chance to demonstrate herself at the job first before concluding she would be bad for city.
That was quite sneaky and under-handed,
Ditto a midnight revolt.
Especially without even making a case for sanction first; or writing to her to inquire where the militia are, or if there were town council seats available.
Ophelia could just as easily have made suggestions and opened discussions therein about how best to serve the city and if not trust that Aishe would be reasonable about such things, then at least give her the benefit of the doubt for a few days.
I suspect that the situation could have been negotiated,
You don't negotiate before the crime has been resolved. You negotiate afterwards. Once a defendant is in custody, the prosecutor and the ... ((what do we call defense attorney's here? Advocate, Barrister?)) negotiate charges and penalties down, especially if the defendant has been cooperative. Ohpelia was asked to step down for a sanctioned revolt and not only refused, but countermanded an executive decree of the Viceroy/Vicerine by encouraging militia participation against that revolt when it was posted for folks not to do so until after the office was returned to it's elected mayor. Whether or not the action in and itself was a crime is not open to negotiation. It was. It's just what level of crime it was might be negotiable, as well as penalties negotiable given past service.
thus avoiding serious longterm damage to one of Bravia's finest.
You are again making a personal judgement call here that Aishe was not also one of Bravia's finest, and done damage to by these events.
Allowing a revolt to stand would inflict serious longterm damage to the State. To the institution.
There is deep philosophic positions regarding the place and value of individuals and their rights and liberties relative to those of a group; but you can pretty much count on any State to put the order and security of itself first, before trying to do their best to settle disputes between individuals.
And, being in a rush, they took the path of sneaky dishonor. No one with any sense of honor brings an army to back them up in a duel.
The situation could potentially have been resolved in 24 hours if there was a maintained standing army garrisoning the city who at the first sight of the revolt message immediately issued orders to move on the town hall and called all citizens to join in; even for the defense wage. Efficiency. Perhaps the issue of honor in and of itself is indeed correct, however politics being what it is, you might come to expect fights with outcomes such as this:
<Rogue vs Warrior>
The idea is not to issue charges and only then look at the evidence,
-blinks.
Evidence is what determines whether or not some is guilty of what they've been charged with.
If no one makes any charges, then there is no case and so no need to gather and present any evidence.
Also, is the prosecutor the one who even makes the charges in the first place?
I thought other people have to bring charges to the prosecutor in their office and the prosecutor than engages the process.
In this case for example, Aishe posted a charge in the office that Ophelia had raised an army flag.
The prosecutor than takes that charge and sees whether or not their is any evidence that it is true.
The aim is justice, not retribution at all costs.
Whether or not it is true is what 'justice concerns herself with, not 'Why' it is true. Justice is bind remember.
That is why Justice must never rule alone, but always in the presence of her sisters, Temperance, Prudence and Mercy.
Some of which may have been in short supply this week, but it's a lesson for the future.
Either way though, it likewise would not have been justice to convey a post-action sanction to ameliorate any guilt associated with removing an appropriately elected official who had yet to actually do anything wrong nor have any charges thereof filed against her since taking office.
There is no such thing as preemptive justice.
and the injustices of that supposed democracy are, perhaps, why there are so many ex-Bravians.
Well to be fair, there are ex-Fenians too, and ex-Kienese. Each place has it's own culture and some people in each culture may find one aspect or another of that culture to be unjust. One must decide how much compromise they are willing to make in exchange for the pro's of that culture. No one place though will ever meet all of an individuals views as to what would make a Utopia.
Nor I would wager does any one place allow an individual to engage it's properties militarily without the prior consent of the leader(s) without their being rebuffed and having some penalty for it.