but it was mine in the first place, so i'll burn it to ash

Compelling, this idea that after centuries of fighting, each soldier knowing only not to ask for more assistance than they need to accomplish their tasks, Ouroboros were telling the Agnian and Kevesi commanders - and not only the commanders! - that they had a built-in support system to hand in neighboring colonies, or not-neighboring, or even cross-faction. Alexandria supposed it wasn't too novel; after all, she'd created the Collectopedia Card system, and wasn't that more or less the same?

Watching ex-commander Cammuravi stand patiently to hear her middle-terms woes and offer sage advice or his best commiseration, she began to suspect not.