"i think she just wanted us to shut up and leave Order alone and when she realized that we would not be easily persuaded to stop asking questions she resorted to destroying our property, locking us behind a barrier and storming off like a spoiled child unaccustomed to having to treat others like equals." he frowned faintly and looked at Rayne after a moment. "for what it's worth my last act on my world was helping rig a city reactor to self destruct at the push of a button... if the governor activated it as planned it would have atomized everything within seventy miles, incinerated everything for the next hundred and left the land a molten crater useless to the Demons who came to take our world. there were over a thousand portals in that range and every one of them would have channeled much of that explosion back to their own world before the portals themselves were destroyed... i like to imagine their portals turning into fountains of destruction, incinerating entire legions of their soldiers that were lined up to invade my world."<span style="color: #ffff99">"sir, that is contrary to fifty laws and your own oath."</span>"at the time i was still subject to the governor's orders and under a very different oath to the one i swore when i was put in this chair... besides, the plan was to wait until the city was entirely overrun, the last evacuation vehicle was well clear of the blast radius and the demons were beating down the door to the reactor room itself. what few Seraphim the governor might have killed were doomed and we all know it and being atomized is instantaneous rather then being gutted and left alive to scream in the streets or have you forgotten the things they did?"<span style="color: #ffff99">"no sir, of course not." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>