"I can't promise I'm not going to make a terrible mistake again, but I'm not going to go out of my way to do so."

He sighs.

"It wasn't meant to be power without purpose, you know. I arrived on the ship after the ghosts were freed from the engine. I couldn't see for myself how things were before versus how they were then, but I would always hear the mutterings. Food was not as readily replenished, resurrections came with an irreversible cost. And prideful fool that I am, I thought I could do something about that."