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Message: <blockquote data-quote="'Ghost'" data-source="post: 6156056" data-attributes="member: 6699140">Ghost thinks for a moment before speaking up.. The duties of a captain are not so simple, yes we have to keep our squad alive, a captain is nothing without the squad he or she commands. But we also need to ensure we complete our mission objectives, a captain whose every mission ends in failure is not fit to lead.He looks down for a moment..Thinking: Such as my recent failure, resulting in the capture of myself and private mourisette. As well as leaving the squads without their rearguard. Snowdrop has been sabotaged as a result and a hostile used a disguise as one of us in order to get close to the squad, risking not only the mission but the lives of my squad. That is a catastrophic failure in my books. The fact that it turned out well and the hostile was neutralised has nothing to do with me, merely luck and the judgement of my squad without their leader.He looks back up and towards the squad assembled there... I agree with Miha though, we have limited resources available to us. I sympathise with the plight of the aliens, but we can't afford to take on an entire species. We have limited food and no guarentee we'll find any more. Not to mention we don't understand their biology, and the environment they need to be kept in to survive, we have our MDAs to provide us with the atmosphere we need, they have no such luxury. There's the issue that they don't trust us enough, that much is true, but I'm not sure I trust them. We'd be exposing the civilian population of the wanderer to a possible hostile entity. That's not just the aliens themselves but any pathogens or such they might bring with them. Also, if we did secure them in a wing of the wanderer, they would require a guard force, further weakening our strength. If another large scale assault from the toasters comes, and our alien friend who fused with yourself captain doesn't turn up, we will need every available soldier to repel the attack.</blockquote>

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