Miles lets out a little ha and sits back. "They wouldn't have had to fight if the captains had just done what the natives frigging asked."
God, he hasn't told this story in...who was the last person he'd had to explain this to? Clara? Shepard? J? There were so many new arrivals after the fact, and the telling had become necessary when the remaining Caducans returned for their vengeance. Ugh. What a complete and utter shitshow.
"According to their liaison, the Moira had stolen Caducan art on board from a previous docking there. The captains claimed innocence, we offered to return the statues, but apparently by having stolen them, we'd...sullied them, or something. I don't know. The Caducans gave us four days to leave. By day six, we were still there." He clenches his hand around the cup, his knuckles going white. "The captains felt like we weren't done supply running. I damn near took a swing at Thán for all that idiocy. And when we didn't leave right away, the locals started getting...handsy with our crew. Bruce lost control. And Clark was...one of the few people on the ship who had the power to at least try and subdue him. The rest of us were just trying to evacuate the damn planet." He smiles briefly. "Clark and I had a fierce argument, on our way down planetside. Gave me some horseshit about not playing the hero."
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God, he hasn't told this story in...who was the last person he'd had to explain this to? Clara? Shepard? J? There were so many new arrivals after the fact, and the telling had become necessary when the remaining Caducans returned for their vengeance. Ugh. What a complete and utter shitshow.
"According to their liaison, the Moira had stolen Caducan art on board from a previous docking there. The captains claimed innocence, we offered to return the statues, but apparently by having stolen them, we'd...sullied them, or something. I don't know. The Caducans gave us four days to leave. By day six, we were still there." He clenches his hand around the cup, his knuckles going white. "The captains felt like we weren't done supply running. I damn near took a swing at Thán for all that idiocy. And when we didn't leave right away, the locals started getting...handsy with our crew. Bruce lost control. And Clark was...one of the few people on the ship who had the power to at least try and subdue him. The rest of us were just trying to evacuate the damn planet." He smiles briefly. "Clark and I had a fierce argument, on our way down planetside. Gave me some horseshit about not playing the hero."