<blockquote><div><cite>Dream Evil wrote:</cite>&amp;quot;I can see how that one look could compromise the authority of a Gunslinger.   We really should have used you, our diplomatic missions may have ended better.&amp;quot;  He said lightly, the Gunslinger's missions of diplomacy were a joke.  In essence it was &amp;quot;you'll do what I say because my men will kill you faster&amp;quot;.  Peace sells, but whose buying?  It was a damn fine fantasy but it was only sought by men who wanted a dull populace who wouldn't fight back.  All the luxuries of the world would lie at their feet and it was the feared Gunslingers who played security.<br/>Not to mention assassins, extortionists, officers of brutality.  The peace keeping missions were even worse.  Just shoot a few of them and the rest will get the message.  Terrence had seen many innocent men and women die by his own hands, they had bored it into his brain.  <br/><br/>One could imagine how thrilled he was to be breaking his programming.  Hindsight is always twenty-twenty and he saw now that what he had done was evil and corrupt.  He felt like he had a thousand years to atone for it.  Time went much slower these days.</div></blockquote>