Ruby Weapon Questline

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Well Gaius did survive Ultima weapon being destroyed(plus the exploding base to boot).

True, but Gaius is a hard boiled super soldier, not a kid in uniform. Any lower man or woman wouldn't probably survive what Gaius survived.

Theres a difference between "might die" and "will die" on the battlefield otherwise barely no one would become a soldier if it would be a death warrant 100% of the time.

Well, it's not like they all have a choice. And in war, there a lot of moments were sacrifices are made for a "greater good" or just because by the arrogance of a general or whatever. So I think it's still hypocritical to be shocked about the sacrifice of an enemy pilot when we have single-handedly killed thousends of soldiers ourself, most of them just beeing send to defend something we want to destroy. It's not like we've cared much in the past about all those pilots in their magitek-machines if they died or survived when we destroyed them.