He wasn’t supposed to. Kerensky was a military commander, not a civilian governor. He had Richard’s 11-year (not 20-year) regency thrust upon him by the House Lords.
More importantly, Kerensky no longer held the reins of power when Richard came of age. Kerensky’s role became advisory, and Amaris convinced Richard to exercise that power in ways (ordering House militaries disbanded, raising Periphery taxes) that were not in Richard’s or the Star League’s best interest. Those mistakes were not Kerensky’s. They were Richard’s, as Amaris’s catspaw.
Kerensky’s only failure during the regency was not seeing Amaris for the threat he truly was and removing his influence over Richard. But there’s no evidence that anyone — from Richard to the House Lords to SLDF intelligence — did either.
That’s simply not true. From SAS spec ops in the Periphery campaigns to tricking Caspars with decoys before fleet jumps in the TH, we see Kerensky and the SLDF employing a variety of strategies and tactics during the Amaris Crisis.
There’s no in-universe evidence for this statement, and it’s unsupported with any concrete alternatives.
There’s no evidence of “looting” by the SLDF, in the TH or anywhere else in the Star League.
There is extensive evidence of looting and worse by Amaris’s RWR and mercenary forces in the TH. The Greenhaven Gestapo literally looted the Vatican. Civilians were forced underground and left to die in Appalachia — the SLDF had to execute the few insanely inhuman survivors years later. As the RWR retreated, it used nuclear weapons to “salt” entire worlds radioactively. Gigantic O’Neill space stations were destroyed, along with the tens of thousands of souls who lived on them. The sunshades that maintained Venus’s climate were destroyed. The list goes on and on.
Civil government in the TH ceased to exist during the Amaris Crisis. Even Sarna makes that clear.
There is no evidence Kerensky took taxpayer property, for reasons of vanity or anything else.
Kerensky did not take, or try to take, the regency. He was appointed Protector and Regent of the Star League by the House Lords because Richard Cameron was 8 years old when his father Simon died and Richard became First Lord.
Again Kerensky was appointed Protector and Regent by the House Lords. He could not be “rebuffed” from a position he had been appointed to.
Kerensky never acted as if he was the civilian leader of the Star League government. He served the First Lord and the House Lords on the First Council.
There’s no evidence for any of this. It’s all made up.
Out of hundreds, the SLDF lost only a couple handfuls of divisions and regiments to the Houses before the Exodus.
During the Exodus, out of hundreds of warships and jumpships, only one had a significant rebellion.
It was only after Kerensky’s death that Pentagon society broke apart, necessitating the Second Exodus.
These numbers and timeline speak to Kerensky’s ability to keep millions of individuals working together towards common goals over many decades. His error, if any, was not realizing how dependent they were on his leadership and setting up a proper succession plan to maintain that remarkable cohesion after his death.
Where (sources and page numbers)? What narcissistic statements, specifically?
Which family members and friends handed Kerensky his ranks? Where (sources and page numbers)?
This is gobbledygook. Kerensky is depicted as quiet and reserved, not charismatic. There is no such term as “political sociopathic”. There is no evidence that Kerensky engaged in “vicious revenge fantasies”.
Where is Kerensky described as ambitious uber alles? Sources and page numbers?
This is just made up. Kerensky never asked to be reappointed Protector and Regent after Richard came of age or after Richard’s death. Kerensky asked the House Lords to choose a new First Lord from among their number. They chose instead to dissolve the Star League.
They weren’t toys. They were weapons, some of mass destruction, and the lives of the men and women that crewed and supplied them.
And they didn’t belong to the House Lords. They belonged to the Star League. And the Star League no longer existed.
That equipment
was not his to take. The equipment from the Royal divisions in particular belonged to the people of the Terran Hegemony, equipment contributed by the other states was likewise the property of those states via the Star League-while the council was dissolved, the
state was not. He did not own what he took, further, he did not own the nonmilitary supplies he took, nor were they legally paid for. *(Hence, Looting. Theft executed in a time of emergency. aka Brigandage.)
the origin of his authority? remember that? was a personal connection to the previous First Lord, he did not EARN his rank by working up through the ranks, he was essentially promoted ahead of others due to his personal connections alone.
His "Genius" is neither evident in the documented battles in fiction, nor in the historical record. His use of massed frontal assaults, however, IS documented.
repeatedly, and his profligate use of bodies instead of bullets is also demonstrated repeatedly.
It's probably clearer to say that his 'genius' is in proportion to the inability of his peers, and possibly due to being a rather good heavy equipment operator.
His inability to govern is shown by the regency period-an able administrator would not have allowed most of the pre-stages Amaris used to survive for long. an able negotiator would have handled the uprising more effectively. both of those are key traits for a GENERAL OFFICER, so he flunks that one too.
The final example of his inability to govern is the Pentagon Worlds situation-even with a host of followers who would die on his every word, he was unable to maintain order or discipline in the ranks once the magic of his personality wore off and the reality of their situation set in.
a situation HE created, and was only able to achieve, by way of his personal charisma, because he didn't have the chops to do it on a straight intellectual or skills basis.
This inability to govern-a role he held for 20 years PRIOR to the Amaris coup, is why nobody on the Star League Council wanted to give him the job, and it was that refusal to give him the job, that triggered his 'exit strategy' of looting (that is, stealing equipment, survival gear, expertise, data, technology and personnel) property that was not his to take for a purpse that was not his right to pursue with that equipment.
what is it he did? He took 80% of the military resources of the Star League, with him, in an act of desertion and outright treason. His act fails the Law, Morality and Ethics test, period.
He did not have teh Legal right.
He did not have the Moral right.
He did not have the ETHICAL right.
he chose his personal ideals, his personal
political ambitions over-and-above any considerations of Duty, and with it Honor. This was an act of criminal conspiracy that cost tens to hundreds of billions of the citizens his forces were allegedly created to protect their lives, homes, worlds, livelihoods and future.
This act of outright, utter betrayal was papered over by propaganda from his supporters, but the fact is, his army had zero possible alternatives to what they did-falling into internal strife as happens with *(historically) pretty much EVERY bandit-king who founds his kingdom on a foundation of desertion and treason.
