: There is a way of telling, you will have to walk around me and see for yourself how many fingers are held up. But when I see you go to look, I will have changed the variable to a different one than it was before, and when you are done looking I will change it back to what it was initially. This is called "deception", Captain Boone. I believe the Goths may be deceiving whoever should be, as you said, "inspecting them for liabilities from time to time". As a result, Helios believes the Goths are upholding their terms, when in actuality they are not. Do you understand?
"Then Helios lacks even more perception than I ever will.
And that's a lot. Helios is far too kind to their Allies to put that much trust in them. What is Helios expecting the Goths to do with killer robots and flying death machines? In a time of war. In this present time? The real truth seems far to apparent to me. Helios doesn't actually care, like they always have. Whatever their agenda is, it sucks. There should be more effort put out by Helios to protect its assets, because "The Goths didn't tell us!" isn't enough. Just looking out the window and guessing whats going on across the street isn't enough. You don't give a child a gun, then forget off to wherever it is you live and
hope they don't pull the trigger. This is your people's incompetance laying bare naked out in the sunlight trying to practice damage control."
Tippy stops and takes a breath
"I'm
sorry that our mission is to capture your friends and send them to R&D, but the more of you we have to fight and lose more men to is a stuff ton of stuff to bear. I had to watch 3 of their marines today burn to an ash because of your un-regulated weapons. You may change the number on your fingers, but you only have a finite number of them. I know what deception is, Elu, I don't need a barely self aware automaton to tell me that."
Tippy leans her head back and rubs her temple
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