[So they got what they wanted, sure, but not without human cost. Jack was one of the lucky (and alive) ones. Even if they made it through the program, graduates got mowed down by Omnics just the same. Overwatch had been the only way to win that war.
And now here he is, thirty years later, trying to make sense of it all. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.]
I don’t know what I expected. They wanted to make us better soldiers, and I wasn’t going to say no, not given what we were up against.
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[So they got what they wanted, sure, but not without human cost. Jack was one of the lucky (and alive) ones. Even if they made it through the program, graduates got mowed down by Omnics just the same. Overwatch had been the only way to win that war.
And now here he is, thirty years later, trying to make sense of it all. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.]
I don’t know what I expected. They wanted to make us better soldiers, and I wasn’t going to say no, not given what we were up against.
[When the alternative was extinction.]
It’s not all bad.