Their intention is self-preservation, but they'd rather be little sisters confined to their homeworld until big sisters say they may go from it than dead, and as far as they can tell that's their option set. They're supposed to put their weapons down? They'll blow up all the ships they have in the sky right now if that will help. It's only workers aboard their ships, stupid workers who don't matter.
Sue, I want to take it but I don't think we have the authority to negotiate surrender, Aegis says nervously. If we get them to blow up their ships anyone could go behind our backs and tell the fleet officers to - to set off the Little Doctor on their planet.
This conversation is happening blisteringly fast. It takes the earpiece guy this long to get around to saying, "You can't negotiate surrender with the buggers! You're not diplomats, you're soldiers, they're the enemy! They're just floating there! Kill them!"
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Date: 2013-03-05 10:50 pm (UTC)Sue, I want to take it but I don't think we have the authority to negotiate surrender, Aegis says nervously. If we get them to blow up their ships anyone could go behind our backs and tell the fleet officers to - to set off the Little Doctor on their planet.
This conversation is happening blisteringly fast. It takes the earpiece guy this long to get around to saying, "You can't negotiate surrender with the buggers! You're not diplomats, you're soldiers, they're the enemy! They're just floating there! Kill them!"