Keith & Tahiri
We were fighting in space a lot which means lots of brush ups with bad stuff. Most of the time the bad luck didn't stick at least.
Now that sounds familiar. Not from one group I was part of, but others. The mission was more the be all and end all of the group I was with. Numbers were low, the enemy was vast, and life expectancy was low. Emotions and personal connections were weaknesses that could cause a mission to fail. Which wasn't completely wrong, but leaned more on complete control and less on understanding. Also, knight sounds better than master.