[ For Angelo's part, that description immediately puts a lot of things into perspective and makes him decide that maybe Hickey is a bit more similar to his people than he would have previously thought possible. ]

Certainly not. But they don't care, do they? So long as it brings profit and comfort to those sitting lazily in their safe villas, they'd send the rest of us out to charter new territory and die miserable deaths without a second thought.

[ Angelo is an enemy of the British Empire just on principle. Die, England. ]

Most of those of us abandoned in space are not dying in colony construction anymore, but most is not all. There are still many who are dying in asteroid mines, left to abject poverty... and even those who live more comfortably only do so until their soldiers once again decide to vent their frustrations on us.