"Kid the first thing any doctor learns is that you can't save everyone. It's impossible. Maybe they need t'find a way to teach Captains that much too." Maybe there was some kind of test they could take, some sort of lesson in futility- because sometimes fights are just that. Futile. you hold the line. You hold it till you die and it won't save you or the guy next to you, but it might save the guy behind you. It might give the people back home another few minutes, few hours before everything roils over.