![[the-eighth-name.png]] *Added to the Codex on* ***September 19th, 2023*** --- ### Quotes "If we forget what others have sacrificed for us, it’s not war anymore. It’s just slaughter." - Blasco "I see it burned into the backs of my eyes every day, whether or not there are flowers." - Blasco "When I wear this, I’m someone else. There’s only the mission - there’s only victory. I don’t let anything else exist." - Blasco "I have to be flesh and blood on this ship. I have to comfort my sailors - guide them, push them." - Blasco <br> ### Description \[Transcription excerpt from a recorded meeting between [[Codex/Specialists/Kimble "Irish" Graves|Kimble Graves]] and [[Codex/Specialists/Camila Blasco|Camila Blasco]] aboard the SPS Impávido.] IRISH: Never really struck me as the flowers type. BLASCO: I’m not. It’s our memorial day on the ship. How many people have died under your command, Bravo? IRISH: Too many. BLASCO: Seven, for me. Marín, Ortiz, both Torres brothers. Diaz. Alonso. Moreno. I know their ranks, their families. The very instant I failed, and they were lost. I see it burned into the backs of my eyes every day, whether or not there are flowers. IRISH: Damn. Hard way to live. BLASCO: It’s the only way I know. If we forget what others have sacrificed for us, it’s not war anymore. It’s just slaughter. IRISH: Are you worried that’s what’s going to happen when you hook up with the uprising? BLASCO: No. If I didn’t trust you to do the right thing, I’d have let you sink. IRISH: Fair enough. So I get the flowers – but what about the helmet? BLASCO: I have to be flesh and blood on this ship. I have to comfort my sailors – guide them, push them. They need to see me laugh and smile and remind everyone what we’re fighting for. \[Blasco touches her helmet.] BLASCO: When I wear this, I’m someone else. There’s only the mission – there’s only victory. I don’t let anything else exist. The only blood in the water will belong to the enemy. IRISH: So there’s never an eighth name to remember. BLASCO: Exactly. And if you understand that, I think we’ll get along perfectly.