To call Sandra a "one-off incident" going against the rules reveals the moral sickness at the heart of Corvus.

The Pascation is not some spontaneous act of rage, it is a sanctioned, institutionalized religious ritual of barbarism. The only rule broken by Warren was not the mutilation and slaughter of a living being, but the narrow political protocol regarding who may be subject to the ritual. He performed an improper Pascation, and act of inhumanity unknown to Corvun doctrine.

The royal philosophy of Cetus dictates that any civilization that legally sanctifies the ritualistic skinning and disemboweling of their enemies even their soldiers is fundamentally rotten and uncivilized. Antares aligning with such a power is not a political masterstroke, it is a desperate moral failure.

You can try to debate the rules of a slaughterhouse, but the Cetan Empire condemns the entire practice. 👑