[ Mistakes doesn't begin to cover. Recruiting children, untrainted, unblooded teenagers? If this is meant to be a business of war and politics, why would the CDC bother to recruit children against their will? Is this some sort of sick joke, a stratagem against the experienced to make them comply? Why, when many came here willingly?

It makes little sense to Martin. And that bothers him. ] I wish your people were my people, then. I'm sad to say the state of this place is very Imperial. My people made war profitable. Ex-slaves who overthrew an empire to start their own. [ A laugh. ] I wonder if anyone else sees the irony in it.

The price was always high. But so many here would do what it takes to save their worlds. Myself included.