From last to first. "Listening and trusting are different. I can hope for both. I can't expect the latter. Tends to be why I ask for the former." Another brief smile, vanishing into seriousness as his tone took on a factual tone. Things had happened in the past. Moses knew the importance to accepting that they had, to move forward into the future. To improve. To change.
To not be the Council yet again.
"There were rash decisions made early on in the CLF. Things done out of vengeance, not thinking ahead. We've changed our approach over time, wised up, but the government picked up our slack. They've kept an aggressive rep alive for years after we left it behind for their own purposes."
"Once you're outside this room, your comm's should be able to contact the rest of your crew. Should," he repeated, with a hint of a frown. "Long range comms were still up before I came in. As long as we stick to the timing I mentioned, you should get through. While we're careful."
If comm-sweeps weren't coming in too fast. They had people monitoring, and out of the "dead" zone, they'd be able to tell him and the crew when it was safe to make a bid for contact.
This had all happened so quickly, forces were responding to each surprise more slowly than might have been planned otherwise.
"We were forced to move before we wanted. The 'porters weren't grounded right, half still weren't in place. You don't have to trust my word on that. I'd rather hand over the files for the 'porters we use so you can read the specs yourself. Takes more of your time, but it gives you a better idea. We had almost no time to get in place by the time your hotel was confirmed."
As for Howard's point... "Why's a good question. But the same government can spin that in desperation, the CLF bombed visiting diplomats and took out the people who'd care most in an fateful twist. Or we're so indiscriminate that it doesn't matter who dies, as long as our point makes it through." There was a nod to Junior for that. That the latter was true to an extent didn't merit thinking over. Some deaths were avoidable. Others weren't.
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To not be the Council yet again.
"There were rash decisions made early on in the CLF. Things done out of vengeance, not thinking ahead. We've changed our approach over time, wised up, but the government picked up our slack. They've kept an aggressive rep alive for years after we left it behind for their own purposes."
"Once you're outside this room, your comm's should be able to contact the rest of your crew. Should," he repeated, with a hint of a frown. "Long range comms were still up before I came in. As long as we stick to the timing I mentioned, you should get through. While we're careful."
If comm-sweeps weren't coming in too fast. They had people monitoring, and out of the "dead" zone, they'd be able to tell him and the crew when it was safe to make a bid for contact.
This had all happened so quickly, forces were responding to each surprise more slowly than might have been planned otherwise.
"We were forced to move before we wanted. The 'porters weren't grounded right, half still weren't in place. You don't have to trust my word on that. I'd rather hand over the files for the 'porters we use so you can read the specs yourself. Takes more of your time, but it gives you a better idea. We had almost no time to get in place by the time your hotel was confirmed."
As for Howard's point... "Why's a good question. But the same government can spin that in desperation, the CLF bombed visiting diplomats and took out the people who'd care most in an fateful twist. Or we're so indiscriminate that it doesn't matter who dies, as long as our point makes it through." There was a nod to Junior for that. That the latter was true to an extent didn't merit thinking over. Some deaths were avoidable. Others weren't.