The High Boson and the Mutineers

Jans was traveling to Batavia to join her husband, and her station was high enough that she had one of the best cabins on the ship. By attacking someone so prominent they hoped to lure Pelsert into punishing those responsible which would trigger a revolt among the rest of the skippers team. What a horrible plan. In every possible respect, it was not good to plan to do that in the first place. And also on top of that being a terrible thing to do didn't work.