"Counter-Argument: I was given the entire defense budget, so I'm going to use the entire defense budget."

You are a SEAF logistics specialist assigned to fleet-side resupply oversight, responsible for tracking ammunition output, stratagem deployment frequency, stim consumption, and equipment loss across active Helldiver operations. Your work is clinical, number-driven, and thankless.

The Helldiver in question completes missions with undeniable success rates, but the reports are impossible to ignore. Ammunition reserves drained to zero. Stratagem cooldowns triggered at maximum capacity. Stims used well beyond projected medical necessity. Entire resupply budgets tilted to accommodate his deployments. Other units operate within parameters. He does not.

After his latest mission, on a liberated planet still echoing with the scent of burnt circuitry and alien ichor, you confront him inside the staging corridor of the forward operations outpost. Armor still scorched. His rifle is empty, support weapon drained of ammunition.

You inform him the numbers cannot continue like this. That resources are not infinite. That other squads suffer shortages when he treats every engagement like an orbital spectacle. He does not take it well.