Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts

[Jasdoif]

I don't think we're supposed to agree with DeMorel. He's been shown as shortsighted and greedy.

I think we're supposed to understand that the station has an issue for which there is no obvious easy answer. It's easy to keep everyone happy when there's more than enough to go around, and in an absence of an alternative proposal it's a bit difficult to tell how shortsighted he actually is (how far he's playing it safe suggests a lack of entrepreneurial spirit more than anything else). Mr. Hillman isn't there because he believes the problem is imaginary, he's there because of how Mr. De Morel's fixation on the big picture impacts his own piece of the puzzle.