He should've just sailed back to England

He could just tell everyone he sunk the Acheron. It'd be months or even years before anyone could prove otherwise.

Same result as in the movie, none of the needless danger.

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That's what they did probably irl

T. Millennial

You have no idea what honor or duty is.

>England's whaling fleet is obliterated
>thousands of innocent British sailors killed
>severe oil shortages in Britain
>entire war effort is adversely affected
Aubrey knew it was worth losing his own ship to stop the Acheron.

In reality however I think the Royal Navy would've dispatched one than one Frigate. The ships-of-the-line were all caught up in blockading Europe but they would surely have had at least a squadron of Frigates to spare to hunt down the proverbial fox sneaking around to their henhouse.

I don't remember anything about this movie other than that it used to be the surround sound audio demo at Best Buy

Zoomers will never understand honor, discipline and duty.

>master and commander
>boats everywhere
Never again

Honor is an invisible currency used to trick sheep like you into fighting and dying for the ruling classes.

This is what happens when a woman watches this movie, lol

why did they stop in the middle of the ocean to fight the french?
they can simply sail back to england and they will never catch them

Yeah, it's not about respecting yourself at all.

grave dishonoru

They probably would have had a bunch of privateers from the Caribbean.

>Be me, King of Great Britain
>My entire navy returns home claiming to have won the war by sinking all French ships.
Wait... Did you guys really sink all those ships? Y-you're not lying just to come home, right?

You can do that without putting your life on the line for sleazy corporate bankers.

Your also forgetting that back in those days an officer wasn't paid a wage and the majority of their wealth came from the value of what they took from the enemy. And the Admiralty would pay them for the value a ship if they took one, which was considerable. That's why they called it 'the prize'.

They were also expected to pay for a lot of their own provisions and amenities as well. iirc the Admiralty would only cover the most basic rations for crewmen.
Aubrey and his officers would have sunk a considerable amount of money into the venture.

The Admiralty wasn't retarded. They knew they needed a way to keep their officers motivated when they were 8,000 miles away.
Once communications and British-controlled ports truly spanned the globe they enacted the reforms that have carried through to today, where officers are paid a wage and all the costs are covered by the Navy, as well as the profits. Which they could do because there was nowhere feasible left that a rogue Captain could run away to instead of following orders.

And what other jobs could a man pull back then? And what kind of jobs and livelihoods would his nation have had if he didn't help secure supplylines? And what about you today? Is your nation self-sufficient? Or are you? Or do you rely on strong men who help secure supplylines so you can live a life of comfort?

Ah yes, the only jobs men had back in the day was "soldier". You can have "honor" without sacrificing yourself for the tribe, y'know.

Ironically, a man would have more honor and respect for himself by not fighting for the whims of his inbred retard masters.

There were few jobs with as big of a risk/reward, and part of the reward, is something only a man can know, wanting something more for your countrymen. Now, do you today acquire goods from oceans far away?

>captain says he sunk a ship twice his ships size
>didn’t capture it either like in the movie actually sunk that motherfucker with shitty black powder cannons
>something doesn’t add up
>find drunkest, stupidest, lowest sailor on the ship
>give him an entire bottle of rum
>so tell me about how you sunk that ship again…