Tarrant gave the slightest shrug of their shoulders. "They already know all our weaknesses, intimately. The technology used to strip the crew of its powers came from within the ship, not without."

"Honestly, the only reason many of us are alive is because it wasn't deployed to full effect. Leaving us alive leaves us opportunity to create countermeasures. They could kill us now. They would kill us, I'm sure, if they didn't require something of us."