Even when you're far away and a ship you used to serve on goes down, taking many of her crew with her, it's not a good feeling.
[He'd felt the loss of the people on the SR-1 heavily, heavily enough it made him desperate and angry enough to try to bring justice to an entirely lawless space station.]
And even if running wouldn't kill everyone on the ship, even if we assume, somehow, that they wouldn't catch you, you're still abandoning every person you care about.
[They're trapped. They're trapped with a crew who will hurt people for the fun of it, who will give incomplete orders if even there was something missing in the first place. Maybe there hadn't been. Maybe they'd just wanted to make a point. The point's made. The recruits have no power and they can be hurt on a whim.]
At least criminals have a way out. They can leave, they can...
[Garrus hangs his head. Green team, protecting. What a joke. The hardest hitting threats are in their midst already.]
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[He'd felt the loss of the people on the SR-1 heavily, heavily enough it made him desperate and angry enough to try to bring justice to an entirely lawless space station.]
And even if running wouldn't kill everyone on the ship, even if we assume, somehow, that they wouldn't catch you, you're still abandoning every person you care about.
[They're trapped. They're trapped with a crew who will hurt people for the fun of it, who will give incomplete orders if even there was something missing in the first place. Maybe there hadn't been. Maybe they'd just wanted to make a point. The point's made. The recruits have no power and they can be hurt on a whim.]
At least criminals have a way out. They can leave, they can...
[Garrus hangs his head. Green team, protecting. What a joke. The hardest hitting threats are in their midst already.]