Devin's own senses told him very little beyond what he could see, but that was enough to decide this woman was someone to keep an eye on.
"Because letting them eat their way into the fusion core while we off them one by one is definitely a logical alternative," he replied with a trace of sarcasm. In all likelihood, those systems had been designed to fail closed in the event of an electrical interruption or surge, assuming anyone remotely sane had designed this place. Whether they could repair it with their limited knowledge, however, was not a small matter.
"And who is to say that the use of phasers is any better a death? They're vermin, and we're killing them anyway." He shrugged with practiced nonchalance. Devin was not actually blind to the suffering of other creatures, but he was entirely willing to wipe them out if it meant surviving longer, and more comfortably. "We may as well do so as efficiently as possible."
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"Because letting them eat their way into the fusion core while we off them one by one is definitely a logical alternative," he replied with a trace of sarcasm. In all likelihood, those systems had been designed to fail closed in the event of an electrical interruption or surge, assuming anyone remotely sane had designed this place. Whether they could repair it with their limited knowledge, however, was not a small matter.
"And who is to say that the use of phasers is any better a death? They're vermin, and we're killing them anyway." He shrugged with practiced nonchalance. Devin was not actually blind to the suffering of other creatures, but he was entirely willing to wipe them out if it meant surviving longer, and more comfortably. "We may as well do so as efficiently as possible."