Be-because...it's what I fight for. [his expression pinches.] I mean, what's the point of what I do if it doesn't help people...find better lives? Even if it's just keeping things on time, or if it's something huge like this, like--like some of the other things I've seen.

If people are going to go so far as clear across the galaxy...it...it may as well be to get to a better place. Right?

[again: more earnestness than sense. but it's a bit hard to deliver a fully-formed speech when freezing cold and sore.]