I'm just gonna give you a super quick run-down of my actual job as commander of this station, not captain, and maybe you can spare the disappointed dad-lecture on me for someone else, huh?
[ for someone otherwise pretty blase and deep in his chillvibes, there is an edge to his voice. peter is really aiming to push at some buttons here. ]
So it fell to me to keep the orbs from doing any damage once you guys have collected them, to keep both eyes on them at all times, and to make sure they didn't do anything to you guys, to us, or to the station itself. I take care of the station, and I make sure that the things that happen on the Ximilia are run under the best security and efficiency that it can.
I'm not a leader, I was never a leader, and our last team — [ man, does he ever hate even thinking about it, let alone bringing it up, but ] — we didn't have a leader then either.
I get that you're frustrated and feeling shitty about what happened on E-23b. We're all feeling it. Viv had her reasons for not telling you guys it was her home, and yeah it might not've been the best decision in hindsight, but you can't tell me everything that happened the moment you found out where you were wasn't done with just a little more fervor — because it became personal. Because you knew Viv and you cared about her and her friends and her mother. She gave you as much information about this world as she's done with any other past mission, keeping out the personal stuff so you could come to your own conclusions.
[ and they did.
he clears his throat. ]
Jeez, I haven't had to talk this much since recounting the 'The Crown on the Head and the Crown on the Heart' to a rowdy clan of trolls.
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[ he won't wait for a response before he adds: ]
I'm just gonna give you a super quick run-down of my actual job as commander of this station, not captain, and maybe you can spare the disappointed dad-lecture on me for someone else, huh?
[ for someone otherwise pretty blase and deep in his chillvibes, there is an edge to his voice. peter is really aiming to push at some buttons here. ]
So it fell to me to keep the orbs from doing any damage once you guys have collected them, to keep both eyes on them at all times, and to make sure they didn't do anything to you guys, to us, or to the station itself. I take care of the station, and I make sure that the things that happen on the Ximilia are run under the best security and efficiency that it can.
I'm not a leader, I was never a leader, and our last team — [ man, does he ever hate even thinking about it, let alone bringing it up, but ] — we didn't have a leader then either.
I get that you're frustrated and feeling shitty about what happened on E-23b. We're all feeling it. Viv had her reasons for not telling you guys it was her home, and yeah it might not've been the best decision in hindsight, but you can't tell me everything that happened the moment you found out where you were wasn't done with just a little more fervor — because it became personal. Because you knew Viv and you cared about her and her friends and her mother. She gave you as much information about this world as she's done with any other past mission, keeping out the personal stuff so you could come to your own conclusions.
[ and they did.
he clears his throat. ]
Jeez, I haven't had to talk this much since recounting the 'The Crown on the Head and the Crown on the Heart' to a rowdy clan of trolls.