Ah, I was wondering if we would get more about Radchaai family structure in Sword, yay! It's possible my reading of all that is really off.

But idk, I never got the impression at any point in Justice that she had a clear, methodical plan? Like, she was pretty up-front that her entire plan was "shoot Anaander Mianaai" and she was aware that a) this was a stupid plan, and b) she didn't really know what was driving her to do it, but that c) emotionally, she really liked the idea of shooting her, and didn't have any better ideas, so why not. It actually ended up being a better put-together plan than I expected!

I also get the impression that even when she still had Justice of Toren, she didn't really buy into a lot of the ideology of the Radch? I got the impression that the Radchaai didn't really care about that as long as the ships did what they were told, and the ships always had sort of their own separate culture. So she never forgets the fact that she's lost and broken and fragmented, but that's about clinging to her identity as a ship, not as Radchaai. I got the impression that "crazed with grief" is actually a perfectly expected life-phase for a ship, and part of what makes her stand out is that she's even as put-together as she is.