[Oh no, someone wants him to volunteer personal information.]
[Wash wants to be more secretive but he knows he's going to have to work with these people. Earn their trust. Make sure they succeed at their missions.]
[And make sure people trust him enough to not suspect that he'll be occasionally slipping off to ruin their chances of going against mission objectives or their chances of rebellion.]
I originally served as a soldier with the UNSC. [A pause.] The United Nations Space Command. But I got involved in a special ops project that... wasn't exactly on the up and up, even though all its agents were told it was.
Fortunately, it's defunct now.
[What he doesn't say is he was its very last agent, doing a particularly morbid job of picking over the corpses of his friends to salvage Project Freelancer technology. Or he was partly responsible for destroying the project due to a long-game plan of revenge. Or that he went to jail for essentially doing the right thing, because of military politics. Or that he made a deal to get out of jail that involved him shooting several innocent soldiers and menacing the rest.]
[Or that he made a similar deal with Jorgmund that will make it easier for him to survive intact.]
In my world, we were at war with aliens that were trying to wipe humanity off the map. For over 20 years. Luckily, it ended without our species going extinct.
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[Wash wants to be more secretive but he knows he's going to have to work with these people. Earn their trust. Make sure they succeed at their missions.]
[And make sure people trust him enough to not suspect that he'll be occasionally slipping off to ruin their chances of going against mission objectives or their chances of rebellion.]
I originally served as a soldier with the UNSC. [A pause.] The United Nations Space Command. But I got involved in a special ops project that... wasn't exactly on the up and up, even though all its agents were told it was.
Fortunately, it's defunct now.
[What he doesn't say is he was its very last agent, doing a particularly morbid job of picking over the corpses of his friends to salvage Project Freelancer technology. Or he was partly responsible for destroying the project due to a long-game plan of revenge. Or that he went to jail for essentially doing the right thing, because of military politics. Or that he made a deal to get out of jail that involved him shooting several innocent soldiers and menacing the rest.]
[Or that he made a similar deal with Jorgmund that will make it easier for him to survive intact.]
In my world, we were at war with aliens that were trying to wipe humanity off the map. For over 20 years. Luckily, it ended without our species going extinct.