You ever think about how Ryley had to repeatedly hear the last words of several people, and that there weren't even bodies to recover (never mind the people who didn't make it to lifepods anyway), and those lost souls had to suffer the indignity of not even being given a proper burial or ceremony, because that literally wasn't possible?
How Hollister died to, in the end, save a single person, who most would definitely see as a burden and a waste of effort? You ever think about how he would have liked to thank Hollister for that, and will never be able to, and will live with that forever.
How Jochi's last words were a plea for reincarnation, and the vast majority of Alterrans, who grew up in a secular space that very much looked down on his culture, probably thought it absurd and silly and probably made light, even cruel jokes, about that. How the inability to recover any trace of his body, probably destroyed what little remained of Mongolia's relationship with Alterra, just forever.
How the last words of Avery Quinn were blind panic that his crewmates probably had never seen before or weren't privy to, and then they all get unceremoniously blown out of the sky, and the man who thinks himself responsible, is standing on the beach below, and can do nothing to stop what he suddenly realises, is the inevitable.
How Ozzy was pleading with people to come and get him, probably knowing his time was running out and that grim looking snake thing might come back, and how it did, and how he was right. How Keen's last words were a hope for safety to anyone who may have heard them, after he likely watched Yu get eaten.
And no matter what you think of Danby, nobody deserves to die slowly, in agony, knowing nobody can save them.
