Re: John and Claudia
"Right." John could only nod. In some ways it was like trying to follow some of the things Riley said in the early days. The idioms made about as much sense as 'apples and carrots'.
Case in point. Disco. "You're really big on pop culture references, aren't you?"
After taking another drink of his cola, he grew serious again. "It's not just being used against us. We're in hostile territory with essentially an enemy government chasing. But, most of the people around us are innocent bystanders. Their scientists have done enough damage already. Even if it's not used against us specifically, would you really want the people who created the mess we're in to get their hands on it?" It was never the tech that was the real problem. It was always the people who used it. "Things are always replaceable, maybe not with an identical object, but things can be replaced. People can't."