[ It's almost sweet how willing he is to forgive them their trespasses. She shakes her head, uncrossing her arms, but her body language is far from calm. ]

We might have been able to pinpoint the catalyst, but those transmissions—what happened—

[ Of course there's more they haven't told you. ]

—we don't know. It's possible.

[ And there's bone-deep frustration there, and a heavy truth, because they don't know why. They might know more than they're letting on, but not why it had to be them. Why it had to happen at all. By all rights, this ship should be empty. It should be dead in the water, it should be a shell. The mission failed. But they're here. ]

We need to focus on what's happening now, and deal with it now. Can you handle that, Flight Lieutenant?