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If you require my services and have tried to contact me without a response, I may be unavailable. Please leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I am physically able. Romulus Hart, 1st lieutenant

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Yet it would not be exactly the same as the old, and hence, would be a new focus.

There are those who are capable of pretending as if they are not affected by events when in reality, they are. What then? Or if all your commanding officers have been incapacitated, whose orders will you follow?

it would still then need a leader. Packs without alphas tend to die off very quickly While i understand your concern, i believe this is a very hypothetical situation. I cannot say how i would act because I have never been put in a similar situation

If you formed the pack, would you not be its alpha? A rhetorical question, you do not need to answer.

However, keep this in mind. Everyone, including you, is capable of choice. A soldier that follows orders without questions is useful, but will never be anything more than the lowest of drones. The chain of command works because a captain knows that his soldiers will not only obey him, but also stop him should he attempt to take things too far. It is not only the responsibility of those above him to keep him in check, but also that of his lieutenants and anyone who forms a contract with him by accepting his command.

One day, and I do not know how soon, you will have to make the choice between blindly following an atrociously heinous order that you know is wrong and going against everything you've been taught and disobeying it. I hope that when that time comes, you are able to pick the right choice.

Because Hart-san, and again, this is not a question you have to answer, do you still truly believe everything you have written during this exchange?

i believe that is where we conflict. I am the lowest of the low, compared to humans- i have no problem with this. It is how things are I have been actively training for forty-nine of my fifty-six years to become this way. I realize that things are simply done differently in here, and even in your own world, but in mine, subhumans like myself answer to human handlers and commanders because we are subhuman and cannot be trusted to make our own decisions I serve as a squad leader here because i am capable of leading others with proper instruction and because others thought it was appropriate. I enjoy what i do and would like to keep doing it. I do want what is best for the people, but i accept the fact that i am not to be trusted to make that decision because I am not human. It is my place to serve, and i will do so as long as i am able ...However there are things that i hope i will not be asked to do. I am not sure what my actions would be if i were.

That may be what you have been taught and believe of yourself, but know this, Hart-san... It is not what someone is that defines them as human or not, but rather who we are.

And there are people here who trust you.

i am not sure i understand. a dog for all that it feels emotions and protects is master will never be considered a human ...i hope i will continue to be trustworthy