Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge… — Stephen Baxter

We underestimated the vindictiveness of mankind. Their retrospective tribunals. Their visiting of punishments on the children of the perpetrators. They never forgave us.

Ah, Mardina. Evidently you entirely lack imagination. You’ll go far in the Navy.

I know the military. The sooner they can kick a problem upstairs the happier they will be.