"Yeah," Jack scowled, "and where we're from? We had a real hero. Commander Shepard. He got sent after the impossible and he got that shit done, but every time? Every time? The Council wouldn't listen to him when he said what we gotta do next. Then when shit hit the fan they'd go running to him again to fix the goddamn mess."

The scowl grew. "They'd do it all over again. It's what they did every other time we did the fucking impossible. They'd just do it again."