Orders were retrieval. I didn't think- none of us thought it'd go the way it did. It feels really fucking stupid to say that's when I clued in to how fucked up everything was but that's when it clicked.

[ He should have known after Georgia. After Utah. After the first mission where they weren't being turned on the aliens they were supposed to be fighting and instead were turned on, what? Splinter groups? The 'insurrection'? Bullshit. It was all so much bullshit and he'd bought every last drop. ]

You did plenty. We just- we -didn't have your back as much as we should. Tex got the data you left her. We, me, tex, and North tried to get to the Alpha. Blew the ship to hell and crashed it while that happened. Scattered after.