[One person, with the team that ended the war and the entire United Nations at his back and a world that had no real choice but to follow Overwatch into their new era of peace. He doesn't want to offer her empty excuses, but of course that's what this is. Still, there's a whole host of socio-political factors involved that he doesn't expect someone not in the thick of it like he was to understand. He has to compartmentalize, because he can't live with himself otherwise, thinking of all the things he could have done. How he could have stretched or shuffled or reallocated the power and resources he had to save more lives. Keep people from being overlooked. It does no good to dwell on it, especially when they accomplished what they did, in the end.]
Tried to do what we could. It never would have been enough.
[Not when you're pulling the world back from the brink of extinction. Someone is always going to get lost in the shuffle.]
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[One person, with the team that ended the war and the entire United Nations at his back and a world that had no real choice but to follow Overwatch into their new era of peace. He doesn't want to offer her empty excuses, but of course that's what this is. Still, there's a whole host of socio-political factors involved that he doesn't expect someone not in the thick of it like he was to understand. He has to compartmentalize, because he can't live with himself otherwise, thinking of all the things he could have done. How he could have stretched or shuffled or reallocated the power and resources he had to save more lives. Keep people from being overlooked. It does no good to dwell on it, especially when they accomplished what they did, in the end.]
Tried to do what we could. It never would have been enough.
[Not when you're pulling the world back from the brink of extinction. Someone is always going to get lost in the shuffle.]