User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Children Inherit Parents' Legacy/@comment-1781187-20110301045810/@comment-1595565-20110302035409

Well, they sort of had to make a cover up. An 8 digit bounty on a child for accidently reading something off limits would make the government seem disturbingly harsh in the public eye. I know it wasn't an accident, but the attitude toward Robin (as a kid) studying the Void Century would have been, "She's just a child, she probably didn't know any better, that's harsh." So they had to make something up to justify the 79 mil. That, and it probably would not be good to tell people a vice admiral really wrecked the battleships after defecting due to moral issues.