Fearless (The Lost Fleet 2.) 3 csillagozás

People will believe what they wish to believe

The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I'm suprised he doesn't have his own event horizon.

“I want you alive and fighting, not proud and dead.”

Ignorance is only blissful if you don't know you're ignorant.

One of the desks actually had a plant on it, a small splash of living greenery. Geary cocked a questioning eyebrow at the lieutenant, who looked a little more nervous as he responded. “That’s Audrey, sir.”
Of course. If a spaceship had plants on board, one was usually called Audrey. The reason for that, if there was a reason, was lost in the mists of the past, but it made Geary feel a little better to see something that hadn’t changed from his time to now.

Just because the fleet’s grown used to expecting stupidity doesn’t mean I have to be stupid.

“I could see some of why the fleet liked him. He’s one of those people who can stick a knife in your back and leave you thinking he did you a favor.”
“I said he was charismatic, didn’t I?”

Given enough time in the fleet, you could learn to describe anything in official-sounding terminology.

I’ve been wondering if nonhuman intelligences might be tied somehow to this horribly destructive war we’ve been fighting for the last century. But I ought to know by now that humans don’t need nonhuman intelligences to influence us to do something stupid.

“I seem to have made a Marine happy,” he explained.
“Oh? Is she going to get to kill something?”
“Probably.”