[Athena immediately hops up next to her and places an insistent paw on Della's leg. Hope Della doesn't mind fifteen pounds of gray Norwegian Forest Cat demanding her attention.]

[Wash turns that information over in his mind, silent as he thinks. There are a number of possibilities here, but two stand out: either the Voidtreckers actually are helpful and the propaganda has been wrong, or they're harmful, the propaganda is right, and Della is either deluded or lying to him. He doesn't have enough context or information yet to figure out which possibility, if either, is correct.]

So being a Voidtrecker isn't voluntary - it's a draft.

[One for the Not Good column.]

If you're helping worlds, then why does the propaganda here paint you as villains? How would this place have even known about you?