"That's - I've been updating a lot in favor of the I.F. is run by amoral idiots lately, but that's just staggering even after all that. Why send people? The expense - the difficulty of keeping it quiet, all those families back home who'd have to be told that their soldier relatives were dead - even if they thought they might not find their genius commander and wanted to be able to turn over the battles to non-geniuses, there's no reason to have those non-geniuses physically with the fleet. They weren't expecting you with your particular mutation to make it potentially invaluable to have brains over there, and even if they'd seen you coming it'd be just as easy for you to link brains over here. The unconventional inputs wouldn't be a tremendous loss, not compared to all those people. So - what do they need the people for -"
She thinks.
"To land," she speculates finally. "Colonies. We're gonna wipe out the buggers and take all their stuff."
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Date: 2013-03-03 08:31 pm (UTC)She thinks.
"To land," she speculates finally. "Colonies. We're gonna wipe out the buggers and take all their stuff."