Joshua Graham and Joanna Dark find common ground

Joanna Dark and Joshua Graham discuss the differences and similarities they experienced in their adventures.

AI Voices by ElevenLabs, original writing by me.

Transcript:
Joanna D: When you wake up... and I don't mean what the politics and personality cults talk about... I mean a honest conceptualization of personal existence... I mean when the shroud of escapism is shorn apart... when the piercing light of where you are nails you to the spot... I remember that moment so well... when I first gazed upon the beauty of seeing a planet from space... only to learn it was the reason an alien species I had never known, the Skedar, wanted humanity dead... to satisfy some religious dictate.... oh ...they prayed for death, for killing... ...sadly ironic that their prayers were answered by me... ...ending in their everlasting death...

Joshua G: I know what you speak of... it was the same when I watched Salt-Upon-Wounds beg for his life... on his knees... ...my gun to his head... he didn't seem to notice or care that he set his knees on the bodies that had recently sung his praise as I slaughtered them moments earlier!! ...you had made up your mind before the deed... I didn't... I... I... made a mistake... a mistake that you didn't...

Joanna D: You didn't make a mistake! You showed mercy... mercy to someone who didn't deserve it.... You refused to kill when you didn't have to... an admirable trait.. ...I with-held mercy from a species that never considered humanity worthy of such a thing! Perhaps you would have failed where I succeeded... ...perhaps we were put where we would be best suited? ...It doesn't matter now... the White Legs are dead now and the Maian fleet has landed. No matter our rights and wrongs... ...events now beyond our control have taken hold...