The war he missed because he was trapped in a black hole, and the war he couldn't have changed even if he wasn't. He's almost gotten used to trying to feel in his heart what he knows in his head, that even if he and Andromeda had escaped Hephaistos, they wouldn't have changed things. At best they'd have died heroically at Witchhead or one of the other battles.
Now, they can make a difference. But as an officer of the High Guard, it's a hell of a thing to try to really believe that the best thing he could have done for the Commonwealth was to get stuck in that black hole instead of fighting alongside his friends and comrades to try to save civilization.
"I'd love to hear the basics about how it started. Maybe you could give me the basics. The Commonwealth came out of the Vedran Empire, but there's nothing left of it now, and," he shakes his head with a self-deprecating laugh, "I'm the only one with a chance to restore it, but I am no diplomat."
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The war he missed because he was trapped in a black hole, and the war he couldn't have changed even if he wasn't. He's almost gotten used to trying to feel in his heart what he knows in his head, that even if he and Andromeda had escaped Hephaistos, they wouldn't have changed things. At best they'd have died heroically at Witchhead or one of the other battles.
Now, they can make a difference. But as an officer of the High Guard, it's a hell of a thing to try to really believe that the best thing he could have done for the Commonwealth was to get stuck in that black hole instead of fighting alongside his friends and comrades to try to save civilization.
"I'd love to hear the basics about how it started. Maybe you could give me the basics. The Commonwealth came out of the Vedran Empire, but there's nothing left of it now, and," he shakes his head with a self-deprecating laugh, "I'm the only one with a chance to restore it, but I am no diplomat."