[unknowing - as usual - about how he comes off to others, simply acknowledging that he will always run astray due to unknown perceptions, Thrawn gives a brief nod. All business; this is easier than allowing his vulnerabilities to show. When he has a task to do he will fulfill it, but evidently this ship and its people despise his ideas as much as his own did.

Never mind. He will graduate, and leave, and not become emotionally attached. It was an error to trust, to hope. He knows divesting of feelings once sown is difficult - Abel is likable, Thrawn enjoys his company - but it will not prevent Abel from zigzagging when Thrawn steps out of line. He will follow the line as best he can, and until then, be the obedient inmate who, conversely, will be told to prefer absolute freedom and chaos over lifesaving tools.

This is fine.

His thoughts drift - contradictory, swirling, a maelstrom where once was order and a calm sea - and it is reflected in a contradictory way of distance, rigidity, and an absence of thought or feeling. This too, he knows is dangerous, but it is less dangerous because doing so will not bring Florian's ire like his more ambitious goals will.

This is Abel's project. Abel is asking for assistance. He will serve with all his skills and none of his heart.]

I have seen anti-matter used as bombs, as fuel, and as hyperdrive rings. Not as cannons. But I agree that they have the capacity for great harm.

If it is necessary in order to fix one, then yes.