Por que o diretor Krennic foi pessoalmente aos cofres de dados?

Havia duas razões, abordadas na novelização oficial de Freed (capítulo 20):

1. Ele viu isso como pessoal. Ele já estava focado em Galen. E ele percebeu que a filha de Galen estava contra ele agora.

   KRENNIC TRIED TO FOCUS ON Galen Erso’s communications archive. ...
   Galen had set this in motion. If he had reached out to allies in the Rebellion, sent the traitorous pilot to contact those allies on Jedha, summoned those allies to Eadu, arranged for them to hound Krennic even after Galen was rotting in a mudhole of a mass grave…
   Krennic stopped short. He remembered now, on the Eadu platform—a flash of dark hair and a face covered in ashes. He recalled the voice saying: You’ll never win. But it was Lyra who spoke, not Galen.
   “—unauthorized access at the data vault.”

   Krennic shut out the man’s nattering. The rebels were inside the Citadel. They were inside the vault. They were determined to steal the schematics, to find an imaginary weakness, no matter how many lives they lost. They were determined to haunt him on Galen’s behalf.

2. Ele viu o general Ramda como incapaz de lidar com o problema, e já havia muitas vitórias improváveis ​​para a Rebelião, então ele adotou a postura "Se você quer que isso seja feito corretamente, faça você mesmo".

   And Ramda wasn’t up to the task. The shield gate was shut and escape was surely impossible; yet too many impossibilities had already occurred for one day.
   He hurled his words behind him as he marched toward the stairs. “Send my guard squadron to the battle! Two men with me!” There was someone in his way; he roughly shoved the body to one side, not bothering to identify the man’s face. “And get that beach under control!”

   (e antes, sua opinião sobre Ramda :)

   General Ramda was a fool, and Krennic had already decided to have him tried and imprisoned for gross incompetence.

A falha fatal de Krennic é que ele acredita ser um homem de ação, igual a luminares como Tarkin. Quando algo dá terrivelmente errado, ele procura se colocar no centro da ação, acreditando que seus pessoal o envolvimento de alguma forma retificará a situação.

Como muitos (a maioria?) Dos tecnocratas da gerência média que se consideram dignos do cargo principal, ele não tem a capacidade de delegar efetivamente em uma crise quando qualquer tolo poderia ter percebido que o ataque na praia era uma diversão.

“Send my guard squadron to the battle!” The death troopers would help break the back of the rebel assault, but Krennic had to hit the heart of the problem himself. “Two men with me! Get that beach under control!”

Krennic shoved his way out of the room, leaving others to worry about the rest of the battle. If he wanted whatever was going on in the data vault stopped, he would have to put an end to it himself.

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Tarkin, em comparação, cuida do cerne do problema em segundos e toma uma ação impiedosamente decisiva.