No... I'm not giving up. Just the opposite. [For all she's spoken of losing and more losing, she refuses to quit.] But running away feels too much like quitting. Yes, I know, I know, we're supposed to lay low up there and strike back, I'm familiar with the concept--that doesn't change that we're running because we're helpless.

[The strategic choice is not the human one, and that is what makes war heinous.]

What do you gain, if all of us suddenly decide that leaving them all to be destroyed is acceptable? That it's alright to write off the Exiles as collateral damage? Yes, we go to the moon base without a fight. And we lose the exact thing that separates us from the United Earth.