Heart of Steel

There are men who give orders, and men who take them. Captains, they often seem like they give them, but there’s always a superior officer somewhere that he answers to, and an admiral that answers to a king or a parliament, who answer to their people. But a man making his living out here—or a mercenary—answers to no one. So a man fit to be captain in a war might not be fit to captain his own ship, because there’s no one thinking for him anymore and telling him what to do, how to act.