Neutron: The Verdant Texts are something I learned to think about just before I met you three, from an old friend.
Neutron: They're why I met you.
Neutron: Objectives are something you come up with retroactively, unless you try to come up with them ahead of time.
WhiteDwarf: That seems unlikely. How can people act without objectives?
Neutron: Brain's imperfect.
Neutron: My brain's especially imperfect. Hyperfocus tendencies, distractions, et cetera.
WhiteDwarf: You certainly function quite well in spite of the contradicting flaws.
Neutron: Because I didn't get a standard-issue brain-numbing nine to five job.
Neutron: Prefrontal cortex can't use words to contain everything else going on inside a mind.
Neutron: But it'll take credit after if you let it.
Neutron: If you aren't trying to come up with objectives all the time, you won't realize you didn't have objectives worth much to begin with.
WhiteDwarf: "Unworthy cause"...
Neutron: I take causes out of the world and I pick objectives out of them.
Neutron: I make sure I always know an objective, or I don't act.
WhiteDwarf: But how do you find your causes?
WhiteDwarf: What grand efforts, what works upon the galaxy are worth the time to pull them apart and harvest their valuable objectives?
Neutron:
Neutron: Identity precedes ideology.

Neutron: Sometimes greentext comes from an outside source. But sometimes, you make your own greentext