Careful how you use that word, “close”. This is the Discovery Service. “Close” is nothing. It’s worse than nothing. It’s worse than anything in the world.
This place wants us dead.
There’ll be no melodramas here. Just live men, or dead men.[to James]
Tell those who come after us not to stay. The ships are gone. There is no way through. No passage. Tell them we are gone. Dead, and gone.[Crozier’s last message, spoken by the Inuit man]
Nature does not give a damn about our plans.[to John]
In this place, technology still bends the knee to luck.
It is a Captain’s duty, after all, to mind for the worst case, not for the one he hopes for.
Frozen ships are good shelters, but they are not our homes. We’ve got homes we need to find our way back to.
Friend, mother, lover, all the things they say a ship is to a captain and they miss the only thing that matters. Confessor.