brendol saying that parnassos’ automated weapon system shot down his ship doesn't track to me. like, in my opinion the empire's outdated tech would still have been better than that and able to detect an unsophisticated system like the one of the con star mining company. vi moradi even said that the weapon system was easy to avoid when she went there and met with siv. granted her shuttle was much smaller but 🫡 part of me thinks and hopes that this was armitage’s first attempt at killing his father by doing something fucky to the ship and not expecting those 4 people and the droid to survive lmao. imagine his disappointment. phasma herself said something like the ships that usually got shot down were usually just in pieces so what a perfect accidental death for brendol and then a disappointment to hux when he found out that his father had survived. i know hux says later on that he and phasma talked about the perfect time to kill brendol, but i really don't think that was hux's first attempt on his father's life. it would have been too perfect an accident that brendol died while out in the field looking for kiddos to steal back to the first order and i think that i'm actually going to incorporate this into my portrayal as hux's plan a for killing brendol,