Surely there were other options, Tribune. I know what it means to lead and to be faced with hard choices - but even so I cannot condone working with the likes of Aetos. You ask us to place our trust in you and yet are hand in hand with the likes of him. I love my world, Tribune, but there are lines I draw.

[ Just so they both know where they stand. Dimitri's tone is controlled, by there is something like a cool anger simmering down in the depths. ]

Would they be dealing with Kowloon in the same way if you had chosen to stay? That, I think, is the pertinent question. Are they not still Meridian? Aren't many of them people who were once your neighbors and fellow citizens?