"You're right, it always is in groups." 76 has been here from what, as far as he's aware, was the start of all this. There hadn't been any other refugees deployed to El Nysa before them, at least. And since then, the newcomers have always been woken in groups.
It could be for some sort of logistical or practical reason. Waking people up all together so that they can be tended to at once made a certain kind of sense. It also meant they would feel less alone, in a situation that was already hard to accept.
All the same, the justification that all of these people are still somehow injured is a weak one, to say the least.
"Your guess is as good as mine," he says with a frustrated sigh. "The Orbiters aren't great with clear answers. I've thought about trying to open one of these by force, to see what happens." He nudges one of the other pods with his foot, but doesn't actually make good on that idea for now.
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It could be for some sort of logistical or practical reason. Waking people up all together so that they can be tended to at once made a certain kind of sense. It also meant they would feel less alone, in a situation that was already hard to accept.
All the same, the justification that all of these people are still somehow injured is a weak one, to say the least.
"Your guess is as good as mine," he says with a frustrated sigh. "The Orbiters aren't great with clear answers. I've thought about trying to open one of these by force, to see what happens." He nudges one of the other pods with his foot, but doesn't actually make good on that idea for now.