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"I'd say that's a stupid assumption, but..." Thabit stretched out his arms, some of the first major body movement he had made in a while now "...you're no cop." Thabit finished.

He looked around at all of them, then the room as he had several times already.

"Criminals, at least the smart ones, don't like to move high risk packages over too far a distance: they know that if they get us on a shuttle then SOOC officers could probably have them before they even touched down, assuming they reached orbit." Thabit said "They know that we're all probably really valuable to somebody, especially three highly trained officers, and they probably also know that every time we're not secure in a static location that they're at a greater risk of being raided."

Thabit was basically explaining the tactics of defense and hostage/prisoner management from a normal officer's handbook "If you're in a facility or building that you know then you can set up choke-points, firing positions, and traps that you know will work but if you're not in a static facility, such as a shuttle, then you need to rely more on snap-bushes or on-the-fly choke points that you can't even be sure that the enemy will use."

The flow, or rather the gush of information didn't seem to fit the build of the large tribesman. To make the clash of appearance and knowledge even worse, he had listed it all off in a seemingly dull monotone of sorts that didn't fit his physique or general appearance at all. Then Thabit locked eyes on Nym, who still seemed to be shaking like a leaf in a monsoon.

"Private, I need you to stay strong for me: just because you're chained up doesn't mean I'm going to give you anymore lee-way than I did when you first joined my squad." Thabit said, his normally glazed and piercing eyes seeming to maybe hold some sort of emotion for the younger squad member before the trace flickered away to be replaced by the same old gaze...that found itself locked on Taleth "You, however, are an idiot: I don't know why I let you on to this squad but right now I'm regretting it, because you have obviously forgotten protocol!" Thabit's voice began to rise "Not only are you just making a fool of yourself, but you're insulting other hostages!" Thabit's brow furrowed in something akin to a glare "If we weren't chained down..." Thabit simply left his threat as that.