[ Well Jim, that's kind of you. Duo at least has the decency not to sneer about it too obviously or loudly, though he does make a face. For once he's more serious than he's ever been probably in front of other people to date, a sort of collected calm on his face though there's a certain...

Air about him. It's not directly threatening, persay, but the God of Death may very well be getting a redux right now in Thesa Station by the look of it. ]

The natives on Nysa don't know that Thesa is up here and I think that's for a reason. What the reason is who the hell knows - maybe it's because the Natha don't want to share and this is their pet planet for us, whatever...

[ But here's where a look gets tossed back toward Jim because he knows this is going to grate his gears. ]

If I have to take this station myself to get the refugees off of Nysa, I'll do it. It's supported us in stasis and with probably the right modifications and materials it can sustain those awake.

We can't sustain Khalo, Olympia and Wyver, though. There's absolutely no way.

[ And with all the removal of someone who's done this before: ] They'd be collateral damage on the Natha if that's what it comes to.