The Director's Choice
真実を隠した所長ヴェガが語る、苦渋の決断と後悔
Captain Vega sat down beside Noah in the quiet light of the memorial room.
"I was young when the accident happened," she began, her voice low and .
"Eleven workers died in a single hour, outside during the storm."
She explained that the colony had almost given up hope after that terrible day.
"If the settlers had known the true danger, they might never have come to Mars."
The leaders at the time had made a difficult and painful together.
They had chosen to hide the accident so that new arrivals would not lose .
"We were afraid," Vega said. "If people had learned the truth, many would have left."
Without enough workers, the colony would surely have collapsed within a year.
So they had sealed the sector and slowly erased the accident from the records.
"Perhaps we should have told the truth from the beginning," she admitted quietly.
"We should have trusted our people to be stronger than their fear."
Noah listened without anger, because he could feel the weight she had carried.
"You should not have lied," he said gently, "but I understand why you did."
Vega nodded slowly, and for the first time she looked deeply relieved.
"If we had spoken sooner, these names would not be hidden in the dark."
"Instead, we let build this wall and keep the dead away from the living."
She confessed that the secret had grown heavier with every passing year.
Many nights, she had come alone to this room to speak to the lost workers.
"If I had been braver," she said, "I would have opened this door long ago."
Noah realised that Vega was not a cruel leader, but a frightened and one.
She had spent her whole life protecting a colony built upon a single lie.
"Now the choice is yours," she told him. "You are the one who found the truth."
"You can share it with everyone, or you can help me keep it buried."
Noah looked up at the wall of quiet faces, each one waiting for an answer.
He knew that whatever he decided would change the future of Colony Eleven forever.