[@EliteCommander] Honestly, the only one fawning over the entire thing would be Issac. The only reason why Marcus is preferring to be diplomatic is because if anything breaks out due to any past histories, he knows the [i]entire[/i] fleet will waste them. Plus Protocol doesn't exist, and neither does ONI. It's more about survival than it has ever been to him, and he's smart enough not to be another gung-ho stickler for blowing anything up that isn't an immediate threat. Eri was willing to actually listen when he sure as hell thought there would be a fight in the CiC, and that's left an impression on him that diplomacy does exist.