There are large suits of armor in the Nexus.
They are not giant mecha, but they are pretty big (ranging from 8 feet to 9 feet tall), and they are not SPARTANs. They move in packs of five or so, occasionally leaping via jets of flame released from their legs, but mostly walking or running. And they appear to be fairly heavily armed. None of them
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"Would you dishonorably slay someone in order to keep yourself from dying?" Perhaps this is meant to clarify.
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Hopefully they're not twitchy.
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And to her? They look twitchy. She shrugs, "I don't really know." She says, "I always thought it was one of those situational things that could vary."
Unknown to them, however, she's called up her PINpoint information in her HUD, ready to vanish should they get any twitchier. Those weapons make her vaguely nervous, AVF or not.
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The Word of Blake are a bunch of right bastards, but that's neither here nor there; what does matter is that they like cybernetics, and so does Ara.
"And what it says is not good." No, they're not firing, but they clearly do not approve of her.
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He jumps about a foot when one actually addresses him. He hesitates a moment, considering.
"...how do you define 'honor'? Because there's a lot of different ways to define it, and that makes a difference to the question."
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"We don't quite - " He's not going to tell them that his people don't have honor. They kind of do. " - it's not usually put in those terms. It's more...right or wrong. Do you do the right thing?"
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"Define 'right', then. What do you consider to be right?"
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And if we're being honest here, he's also frowning because honor is one of those abstract concepts that he's not too good at. (Burying your commanding officer/faux father figure alive in order to cement your own promotion is perfectly reasonable behavior!)
"Personally," Simmons decides these guys probably don't outrank him, and, as such, don't merit the 'sirs' he might've put in this spot otherwise, although his tone remains terse and polite, "I find my survival to be the higher priority of the two."
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"I dont have any real concern for 'honor'. Kinda useless."
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"Do you really think honor has no place in life?"
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