"That's only true because you've already given up."

"In my home solar system you can just drop a big rock on the Earth from space and it'll smash whatever you drop it on."

"No. Absolutely not."

"I would recommend dropping it on an uninhabited area first."

"Is there some part of no you don't understand?"

"Luna-Terra didn't say anything!"

'Stunned into silence' doesn't happen to Luna-Terra very much. It's a weird look on her.

"We're not doing that," she manages to say.

"Sorry. Just thought I'd bring it up."

"There's-- combat, in space. But not-- it isn't--"

Deep breath.

"It's more like an argument. Nobody dies."

"So... if Earth declares war on you they can just argue with you really hard?"

"If Earth declares war on us, we can make them fight with us on space terms, except that Luna-Terra has decided to be so much of a defeatist that she'll fight for a cause even she doesn't even believe in--"

"I'm being an adult."

There is some kind of subtext here he doesn't understand. 

"Adulthood is very overrated."

"Maybe it is, but someone still has to do it."

"That doesn't mean it's a good thing, or a thing you should have to do unless you have to."

"Cradle's Graces is going to love you." She's more than a little wistful.

"I guess you guys have picked my side for me."

"Oh, I didn't say I'd picked your side."

"Really? You're not just trying to scare me? We're actually, finally, for real, going to have a fight about it?" 

"I support a fight! Fights seem fun to watch."