NARRATOR: Elsewhere...
ARCHIE: That looks like it was expensive.
PETEY: How so?
ARCHIE: You sacrificed three capital warships in order to save twenty-eight lives.
Enemy lives.
PETEY: Yes. Will those twenty-eight sophonts still be my enemies in ten years? What about ten thousand?
The future is big. I want to find out what these people can become, and I can't do that if they're dead.
ARCHIE: So it's an investment.
PETEY: An expensive one. I am going to miss those ships.