Quiet, that's all he seemed to be as he patiently watched and listened to the renders and Siren's explanations. He was hard to read like this, giving away little as he seemed to process everything. "What's stopping them from swinging by right now and vaporizing us all? I don't dismiss the threat they pose, but I think you're jumping the gun on this gate. Ironic, I know. The radical becomes the moderate. But you don't know nearly enough to warrant what you're asking me to commit to." For all he knew destroying that gate might do his interests more harm than good, and if it really did open up a can of worms then Alaska would no longer be a fortress.
This was a fairly complicated situation to navigate, and he needed to be sure that the benefits of whatever choice he made were maximized. "Say I help you pull this off, what then? The gate's gone, we're left with more questions than answers. Maybe even isolated from technology that could help us fight back. Opportunity cost can be applied both ways here." Perhaps he was a madman or a narcissistic thrill seeker, but he felt he had a point worth considering now. The time for jokes and hollow flirtations was long passed, either they were going to agree on a course of action that could potentially undo all the progress he'd made so far, or they'd disagree until there was nothing further to discuss. In any case he wasn't in the business of doing society altruistic favors.
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