[That's along the lines of what Lance was expecting considering Ian's comment about not being able to fault their logic. But faulting logic is what Lance does, and so he has to say--]
Declaring they don't approve of how humanity was using the planet's resources in order to provide some justification to use them themselves seems like pretty brazen hypocrisy.
[ But something Ian's thought about is how he's never seen them once waste anything. Never heard any stories of it. Every scrap of rubble, everything they pulled from the ground, they never left anything behind.
They don't even bury or burn the bodies of the people they declared unfit to live, nobody knows what happens to those people they put down.
He's got theories.
You gotta feed the herd something. ]
Unfortunately there wasn't much of a cultural exchange. People have tried. Wanted to know what deciding factors were, whether or not they've ever found any planet worthy, what they're gonna do with what's left of the earth when they're finished. They're not interested in talking. Doesn't matter who you are, anyone who got caught wound up in the same position as everyone else.
[Lance is quiet at all of that, listening both to the words and to how Ian says them, noting the change in tone and scaling back the flippancy in response. Instead he gives a quiet sigh at the implications of all of that, offering sincerely--]
I'm sorry. That's an awful situation, and that you can't even get any answers just makes it worse.
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Declaring they don't approve of how humanity was using the planet's resources in order to provide some justification to use them themselves seems like pretty brazen hypocrisy.
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I didn't think to point that out to them.
[ But something Ian's thought about is how he's never seen them once waste anything. Never heard any stories of it. Every scrap of rubble, everything they pulled from the ground, they never left anything behind.
They don't even bury or burn the bodies of the people they declared unfit to live, nobody knows what happens to those people they put down.
He's got theories.
You gotta feed the herd something. ]
Unfortunately there wasn't much of a cultural exchange. People have tried. Wanted to know what deciding factors were, whether or not they've ever found any planet worthy, what they're gonna do with what's left of the earth when they're finished. They're not interested in talking. Doesn't matter who you are, anyone who got caught wound up in the same position as everyone else.
[ Overcrowded, under-resourced prison camps. ]
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I'm sorry. That's an awful situation, and that you can't even get any answers just makes it worse.