He took another pull of his coffee. Speeches. They always had to make speeches. He raised an eyebrow at his own inner monologue - werent we asking them too? History taught of revolutionaries as exemplars of the people, and some of the best examples were natural leaders. Speech making came with being a leader. His lip curled in disgust - revolutionaries, true revolutionaries, were rarely exemplars - they were just people.
"So. You drove a transport - I'm assuming it was pirates and scavengers that you've had to fight off more then once, da?"
"...And with that sort of experience, you wish to take on House Militaries, yes?"
"That is a rather large jump - defending a transport to attacking the might of a house...and what exactly gives you such courage to do so?"