"This is quite a reckless approach."
"Why talk about this now?"
"Haven't we gotten this far by being reckless?"
"There's simply no way to deal with the Empire using normal means."
The command cabin was filled with optimistic banter, expressing a sense of acceptance, though also acknowledging an undeniable fact.
One can't survive without going crazy.
This phrase, often akin to a joke, appears frequently throughout history. The closer a nation or organization is to its end, the more they regard it as gospel. Strategies with no chance of success, insane delusions, child soldiers, elder soldiers, kamikazes... Anything conceivable, no matter how crazy, goes into practice and is often dressed up with various grand truths.
