[Velocity must have had a similar sort of expression on her own face, once the surprise at the notion of deliberately allowing soldiers and doctors to die settles in. She supposes it was just an intersection of values, and decides to leave it at that until she has more time later to turn things over in her head.]

[She isn't particularly offended by his thoughts about her colony, at least. A lot of people react that way, when they hear about it, but it was just the way things have always been. Not that it makes it better, she supposes, but perhaps that was where he was coming from, as well...? That his notion of weeding out the weak was the way it has always been for him since the arena? Possibly.]

[In any case, she offers him another weak smile.] I don't know that I've ever been good at accepting that, either. We're a communal species at heart, even if we've forgotten it. But... I can certainly try? Knock Out thinks I should, too, and probably Ratchet...