"It's a complicated situation," Ford says. "And changing it isn't easy. My mistake was taking the whole thing on myself, and not asking anyone else on the Barge if they wanted to be involved with my Authority search. Some of them don't! Some inmates want to go back to their own worlds and don't care about anything else. Some wardens come from worlds so terrible that they can't go back. Others need their deals badly enough that they're willing to gamble with inmates' lives. And some are just along for the ride, because they don't mind if inmates are miserable because they're having fun."

Whoof, someone is still bitter.

"And I have to respect that. Not everyone wants the ship to change. So I'm stuck working on projects for people's pets and hoping I can make sense of the data from disappearances while the Authority watches the whole thing, and no one does anything about the inmates who can't get out."

His family died in multiple breaches. Thankfully, that shit has stopped, but he suspects it's because it stopped being fun to watch after the first two times.