[Silence presses again for a long moment, a reluctance in her expression, guilt. Because she knows, the fact they were using prisoners would never have been protested by anyone, not even herself. The prisons were full of murderers and thieves, pirates, the worst their society had to offer draining precious resources in an increasing flood.
But what they'd done to them, here, it wasn't manual labour on the outer planets, wasn't a clean execution. It was horrific.]
The command crew.
[She eventually admits.]
The captain.
[Outside of them, the scientists and the security detail, no one else had even known the prisoners were on board.]
no subject
But what they'd done to them, here, it wasn't manual labour on the outer planets, wasn't a clean execution. It was horrific.]
The command crew.
[She eventually admits.]
The captain.
[Outside of them, the scientists and the security detail, no one else had even known the prisoners were on board.]