"God knows
you've tried, but you can't let go of what you used to have. From the people to
the little comforts that made your everyday aboveground pleasant and so easy
compared to this. You don't feel there is anything wrong with clinging to those
memories although some people certainly like to blame you for it. You just want
to see the sun again! Humanity wasn't made to live in the dark!"
"As a
servant of the morrow, you do not let yourself be chained in grief and inaction
because of things that happened in the past. Instead you work hard and with
determination to improve the future for your community and for those you love.
This drives your research, where you are meticulous and calculating, yet daring
in your theories that usually go further than those of your colleagues. You
strongly believe scientific discoveries will be instrumental in leading the way
forward for humanity, and as such, one must have the courage to go where the
evidence points."
"You don't believe in nourishing dangerous fictions with empty promises that
everything will be okay, and you don't have a whole lot of fucks to give about
ancient emotional hang-ups that keep people from doing their part. You aren't
here to make sure everyone feels "nice", you're here to make sure the
barely functioning machine that is the budding society of Thermopylae is
well-oiled and that all the parts are running at maximum effort. So when
someone from SURFOP is freaking out, putting their team in danger by making shoddy, emotionally charged
decisions out of fear or anger or whatever, you are the one who're sent in to
teach them to calm the fuck down."