User blog comment:Hawki/Nova Covert Ops, part 1 - Reflections/@comment-72.197.211.140-20160610165432

Hawki, with regards to what you said about loyalty that's expected of a soldier to a nation, I understand what you're getting at. I guess I just feel that it seems wrong that virtually no one in the Dominion military, when it was still under Mengsk's rule, ever suspected that the numbers aren't adding up. They don't have to know the specific details, but they should suspect that something was very wrong. Certainly some of the Dominion civilians felt this way, as Tulosky (documentary writer, according to the WoL newscast) had specifically said that Mengsk ascended to power by killing the Confederacy on Tarsonis. It just feels that no one in the Dominion military bothered to do any thinking, and just blindly did what they were told, almost devoid of conscience.

For the part of Mal Kelerchian, I said nothing about assigning the guy to the covert ops group. Rather, it could be like he's in the DoM's custody. This could then prove they aren't completely arrogant. Perhaps they had known all along that converting Nova would be much more difficult than they thought, and as the Dominion's most capable ghost, she just might be able to defeat them. For that reason, Mal Kelerchian could be used as an insurance policy and everything.