Shokyou is quiet for almost half a minute.<br/><br/>"Thank you for your honesty, Captain."<br/><br/>It is almost another minute before the ship adds, "out of curiosity, Captain, are you at all familiar with an Old Terran classic work of literature called The Three Kingdoms? Specifically the exploits of a man known popularly as 'Kongming'?"<br/><br/>You think maybe you detect a note of amusement in the VI's tone.<br/><br/>"Do you trust me, Captain?"