Nicholas Rush stood staring down at the man below him.
His mind ticked over, fast, turning thought around. They wanted him alive. Could Simeon offer them information? Could they ever trust the information? He doubted it. Torture or chemical inducement was out of the question as he would be in someone else's body at Homeworld Command. Undertaking torture here to get the information was out of the question, as Camile at least would never permit it. Though at the moment Rush would quite happily slowly cut pieces out of the man.
What did that say about him though? He was almost probably dead anyway, both of them were, Destiny was long gone unless Eli could pull something out of the hat and that seemed unlikely. Should he really leave him here to die slowly, or should he take him back on the off chance they would be saved. And what if he did, the man would simply be a useless broken drain in their scarce resources. He was never going to give them the information they wanted.
He was violent and insane, a mad and dangerous dog.
Rush raised the gun...