[It's an interesting thought, and one that makes his eyes flick up, more awake than he had been before, like it brings something up in the back of my mind... but he doesn't know if he has it in him to share it.
Instead, he thinks about something else, about his other colleagues, the other ways that the IPC has said one thing and done another - preservation, profit margins, ruthless capitalism for the good of all mankind. He plays by their rules, gets things done on their orders, but that doesn't mean he agrees with it.
Just the opposite, really. It's all a means to an end for him.]
The IPC has saved - oh, a dozen billion lives through uplifting backwater planets sentenced to environmental death, among other things. We have a counter in the main office, actually. [He smiles, flashing teeth.] It's tacky.
Still, I wonder if the Nameless hold such a record. I wonder still, how many lives have been lost to IPC intervention.
[The smile doesn't fade, but it does grow sharper, faker.]
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[It's an interesting thought, and one that makes his eyes flick up, more awake than he had been before, like it brings something up in the back of my mind... but he doesn't know if he has it in him to share it.
Instead, he thinks about something else, about his other colleagues, the other ways that the IPC has said one thing and done another - preservation, profit margins, ruthless capitalism for the good of all mankind. He plays by their rules, gets things done on their orders, but that doesn't mean he agrees with it.
Just the opposite, really. It's all a means to an end for him.]
The IPC has saved - oh, a dozen billion lives through uplifting backwater planets sentenced to environmental death, among other things. We have a counter in the main office, actually. [He smiles, flashing teeth.] It's tacky.
Still, I wonder if the Nameless hold such a record. I wonder still, how many lives have been lost to IPC intervention.
[The smile doesn't fade, but it does grow sharper, faker.]
No counter for that one, I'm afraid.