Court-martial three types: Special, Summary, and General. In Herman Melville's novella "Billy Budd" (first published 1924), the title character is convicted at a drumhead court-martial of striking and killing his superior officer on board HMS "Indomitable", is sentenced to death, and is hanged. The novella has been adapted for the stage, film and television; notably in Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera "Billy Budd". In C. S. Forester's 1938 novel "Flying Colours", Captain Horatio Hornblower is court-martialed for the loss of HMS "Sutherland". He is "most honourably acquitted". Court-martial A court-martial or court martial (plural "courts-martial" or "courts martial", as "martial" is a
Star Wars Legacy: Indomitable Star Wars Legacy: Indomitable Star Wars Legacy: Indomitable is a two-part story arc between issues 20 & 21 of The series of comic books written by John Ostrander. The first issue was published on 27 February 2008 by Dark Horse Comics. The story is set in the "Star Wars" galaxy 137 years after the Battle of Yavin in the film "". This is a continuing side-story of the last of the Galactic Alliance's armed forces trying to survive in the Sith dominated New Galactic Empire by acquiring a new and powerful Star Destroyer from the massive shipyards of the Mon