ataraxion | [text, two hours before the Jump]

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[text, two hours before the Jump]

All non-essential personnel are ordered away from the doors outside the bridge. Security will be using force to subdue and remove anyone who does not comply with this order. Please use this time to gather your things and proceed to the stasis pods for the Jump.

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With the way things're going right now, we are gonna have more deaths. I get wanting to compel 'em, but less people workin' those doors doesn't sound like it'll get much done either.

More people working the doors has not yet done anything. And we've been trying six days. And the jump is only hours away.

So how will less-- [ he just ends up making a frustrated sound. there's really no winning here. ]

You know this ship, it won't give up until the last minute-- [ if at all. ] --so forcin' people into their pods when there might be something they can do ain't right either. They have a right to choose no matter what we might think.

A right to choose what, precisely? To die? Is that what you're saying?

To try and get their friends and family out.

They've tried for six days. It's past time.

You don't have any right to decide that. I get wanting to get them to safety, trust me, I do-- but I wouldn't wanna be dragged from that door if someone I cared about was stuck on the other side.

Then I suppose I'm simply a bad person, because I don't care about what they want.

[ definitely pausing at that!!! so not the answer he wanted to hear. ]

Well you fucking should, you-- [ stupid piece of-- ] And what about you, huh? You gonna go back to your pod if it turns out there's nothing you can do? Or are you gonna keep kicking that door until the last minute?

[ because like it or not, he knows you. he knows you'll want to stay. ]

[A pause. He ought to lie, but - ]

I do not believe that there is nothing that I can do. As such, I will stay for the foreseeable future.

A lot of people think the same and you're sending them away.

Those people aren't on Security.

But they could be more useful.

If they were going to be useful, they'd have been so sometime in the first six days.

You don't know that, the ship could be testin' us-- or something. You don't give up when there's still two hours.

Winchester, the choice is either ensure these people's survival or engage in this idiotic attempt to read the ship's "mind." My priority is saving their lives. Tyke agrees with me. That's the way it's going to be.

[ ANGRY GRUMBLING FOR THE LONGEST TIME ]

Well I don't like it.

[ yeah that's the best he's got. ]

Well. It's a good thing I'm used to being unpopular, isn't it?

Yeah? And how's that working out for you? Not savin' anymore people with that, I bet.

It's working out excellently well. Thank you for asking.

What about the constant denying and lyin', huh? That working any better?

I don't - lie. What are you accusing me of?

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