CT recognises that look, almost like looking in a mirror and seeing a slightly distorted reflection of herself looking back. How many times did a look like that make Wash joke about Connie's Question Time, or make the other agents bristle after Connie became CT and it inevitably meant she was about to ask something that would rock the boat?

It makes the corner of her mouth quirk and she gives a quick, "Another time," as acknowledgement, before continuing on.

"Like the worst reflexes test in history?" she says. She can only begin to imagine what the self-destruct protocols looked like on any given UNSC starship—probably at least as bad as the Nostromo's. "We've had a couple centuries for the technology to become commonplace enough that I bet most soldiers don't think about the risks at all, and even less civilians. It's like those statistics about being more likely to get in a crash on the way to your flight than on the flight itself. You put your faith in your pilot and start being scared if they start looking scared."