Steve just nods - it is horrifying. And hypocritical. And a lot of other things, besides.
He already doesn't like the way they're essentially blackmailing offworlders into staying - or, at least, making it seem that way. He really doesn't like it if they're doing something to accomplish that end that's only hastening the thing they're trying to stop.
"Thanks. I will. I don't have a lot to go off of, yet. I want to see what else I can find, if there's anything else to find, before I bring in the big guns."
One corner of his lips quirk. She is definitely those big guns.
"It'd be one hell of a way to monopolize the market, so to speak." If it were at thing they could steal or replicate, that's one thing. This? Might be another entirely.
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He already doesn't like the way they're essentially blackmailing offworlders into staying - or, at least, making it seem that way. He really doesn't like it if they're doing something to accomplish that end that's only hastening the thing they're trying to stop.
"Thanks. I will. I don't have a lot to go off of, yet. I want to see what else I can find, if there's anything else to find, before I bring in the big guns."
One corner of his lips quirk. She is definitely those big guns.
"It'd be one hell of a way to monopolize the market, so to speak." If it were at thing they could steal or replicate, that's one thing. This? Might be another entirely.