And if Rhade had taken a single step anywhere near the pilot's seat of any ship Dylan had any responsibility for in that state, he'd be testing Nietzschean abilities against Heavy Grav Worlder strength and Argosy training.
"If I'd wanted to try that, don't you think I'd have done it by now?"
It's not like he doesn't have enough reason, if he'd wanted to look at the world that way. As if being three hundred years in the future with nothing and nobody he knew except Andromeda wasn't enough (no Sara, no crew, no friends, no family, not even his homeworld is still there), there's the little matter of the Fall of the Commonwealth and his one-ship crusade against the Long Night.
And, of course, the Magog.
But letting himself wallow in any of that is not going to do anything to change the past or to forge a new line against the night.
Dylan shrugs, picking up his glass and taking a gulp, though his pace is nothing like Telemachus'.
"Una salus victus, Commander," he quips. "It's worked for me so far."
The Argosy Special Operations Service never really leaves a man, even after he's transferred out of it. And he commands his ship as much by that motto as any other.
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"If I'd wanted to try that, don't you think I'd have done it by now?"
It's not like he doesn't have enough reason, if he'd wanted to look at the world that way. As if being three hundred years in the future with nothing and nobody he knew except Andromeda wasn't enough (no Sara, no crew, no friends, no family, not even his homeworld is still there), there's the little matter of the Fall of the Commonwealth and his one-ship crusade against the Long Night.
And, of course, the Magog.
But letting himself wallow in any of that is not going to do anything to change the past or to forge a new line against the night.
Dylan shrugs, picking up his glass and taking a gulp, though his pace is nothing like Telemachus'.
"Una salus victus, Commander," he quips. "It's worked for me so far."
The Argosy Special Operations Service never really leaves a man, even after he's transferred out of it. And he commands his ship as much by that motto as any other.