<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Mark</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  The Colonel knows that no one from the Company will be checking in for a long, if ever, which means they have to carve out a survival on this colony with what they can salvage, which is not much at all.  Many of these people have lived out their lives in comfort, and would have continued to do so with the colony building equipment on the Traveler.  Now, lacking the proper supplies, they’re going to be forced to endure and suffer for the first time in their lives.  The Colonel is force marching these people to condition them.  Play times over, kids, time to hurt.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The part where he says they are going to be forced to endure and suffer for the first time in their lives pertains to the fact that they will have to struggle to build up the colony.  His character has a point when he wants them to constantly be at work, building up their endurance so that they won't be surprised later on when it gets tougher.<br/><br/>Your character won't be forced to follow what his character tells your character to do.