[Hank grimaces, both at the thought of Connor being destroyed “very quickly” as well as the alternative.

Something slow. Giving him enough time to deviate.]

Is this not a “moral quandary?” This whole mission? I mean, you — you’re not going back, okay? Think I’ve established that well enough. But if you did go back...

With that thing gone, whatever it is that keeps Etraya running the way it does, I assume we’d all suffer. Figure I’d starve or something, yeah? And without whatever is giving Aurora-Echo-whoever their power, would I even come back? Or would I just be dead, Connor?

[It’s less a question — and not really Hank worrying about himself — and more that he cares what Connor thinks. How that makes him feel.]