Jason stood there alone in the room with Mr. Gabriel for what seemed like an endless moment but was just a couple of moments in reality. He listened and wondered....was such power in a single weapon even possible...if so his engineer captain Boris should be able to figure out if it was really on it on not. Be he didn't doubt that this man meant what he said from the tone of his voice. Maybe he was and Jason was just getting on in years...[B]"You're too quick to trust me Mr. Gabriel. I am your commanding officer but I hardly know you and vice versa. Trusting strangers is not something to take lightly hence why there are still two guards outside of the door. I want to earn your trust but first I need to actually see how you behave. From this point on I hope that you will see me as a brother or simply as a good man I am no father figure to a man almost my age most likely. Most people call me by my title and my first name be it as it may do as you wish."[/B] Jason stated as he slowly breathed in and then turned around. [B]"This weapon....is exactly that a weapon. If what you say is true than it is more powerful than most things I've seen with few acceptations and it's length and size is much more portable as well...tell me would you hate me if I said that I would prefer not using that weapon?"[/b] Jason simply asked as he turned around and smiled silently at Gabriel and chuckled. [B]"I've seen good men die, children orphaned, and mothers wailing for their husbands and sons. It's a horrid experience and with a weapon of mass destruction like that is leaves the user.....blank so to speak. Tell me do you feel more of the gravity of the moment coming down upon you as you push the button or pull the trigger be as this...satellite cannon and watch as it activates and causes horrid mass death? Or do you feel it harder to gun down individual soldiers knowing that you ended their lives with that blow? For me it's the latter the former is simply more efficient indeed, but it is likely much less personal as your gunning them all down indiscriminately in a show of power rather than individually ending the lives of the man you're fighting, which presents the fact that you are choosing to aim at that man and shoot not just in his general direction."[/B] Jason continued simply shrugging and then laughing a good hearty laugh, [B]"Or maybe this is just the blathering's of an old man who clings to the system of 'remember the kill' regardless...it seems that you will have to figure out when to use it. I will not order you to pull that trigger you must willingly do it. For all that I am I can't MAKE you do anything YOU are the component that makes the wars so horrible and thus more likely to be remembered. The human element of war is the more real and it scares people to prevent future ones. Or at least it should given how many fights I've been in that hardly seems to matter anymore."[/b] Jason said sighing deeply before shaking his head and looking back at Gabriel, [b]"Go ahead if you wish to ask something of a man your risking your life for than do it. I however will not willingly give away much before you until you earn it. Blackstar has fought with me for most of his military career him and his....old companion. But less said of Blackstar the better the boy's past is his own and it is one even I would hate to own. But what is it that you wish to ask?[/b]" Jason said simply sitting back deeply into his chair.

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Before the group could continue talking about this Katherine WInner a young girl approached them in a rather bumbling fashion, "Um...excuse me but Mr. Calhone sent me down to...escort you to wherever your destinations may be." said a young girl in a light blue military dress designed for bridge handlers. She was quickly fondling through a book that seemed to be a manual of some sort unsure of what to do. It was clear she was green but whether or not she actually knew what she was doing remained to be seen. She had her hair pulled back into a large cap that seemed to almost cover the top of her head in an almost comical fashion and she looked very uncomfortable. [B]"Great so now we got greens on a special forces ship...The Captain is being far to lenient..." said one of the guards by the door quietly hoping that no one heard it but his partner nodded not even looking at the girl. Paul had gone down to the mess hall it seemed to check things out down there while the new group talked to each other.