"Why don't we make a big deal of it? Since we've got the new technology aboard, and everyone will know it soon, we should play it up and offer trips once a year or something. You know we're going to be called on to do random political nonsense, so picking up a load of tourists on the way and making a spectacle of it would make it very hard for anyone we are negotiating with to justify attacking Terminus." Nico suggested.
"Are you saying to use the passengers as human shields?" Max asked suspiciously.
"No, of course not. But can you imagine the bad publicity if the galaxy found out that someone attacked a bloody Cruise ship full of tourists because it was run by a neutral nation that they were supposed to be negotiating with?" Nico countered.
