He chuckles. "I'll probably wait a decade or two before springing something<em>too</em>shocking. They can only take a major change like that once a generation or so, or they might revolt. Despite their relative ineffectiveness, united, they have a larger army than we do. As it is, they stand fairly fractured, but united against us, they could be a serious threat."<br/><br/>He considers. "An interesting idea, certainly, though that requires assassins honorable enough to honor the idea of a single contract at a time. Many, especially in this region, are far more... thuggish. The only one with the resources to do something like that is almost certainly well outside of our budgets for... discretionary spending, especially if we intended to protect more than just a few important targets."