Well, there ARE torpedoes that pretend to be a ship in order to trick ships and other torpedoes to go for them, instead of the submarine that fired it.
But yeah “specifically” designed to sink ships sounds weird when that’s what most of them, with only few exceptions, do.
Already any plans for becoming childless?
I’m sure many of us would prefer “Fuck you, Endymion”.
Based on other protests, probably?
Apart from that, killing 12000 people is a huge effort even for a military using artillery and whatnot. If you have some military insight, just think of the logistics.
Or compare to the massacres Nazis did in WW2. Extreme cases like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had something like 20000 people killed on site, so you see how believing that they pulled of more than half of that here, without all the supporting context the nazis had, is not a given.
The chance that they agreed on that and she wouldn’t mention it is slim, though