Draiss started to reply, and froze in horror at the message. "Can you... give me a moment, please? I just got an... unsettling report. And I apologize, but I was not intending to threaten you or yours. I was merely attempting to be an ally and point out that a certain course of action would have terrible consequences."<br/><br/>It took nearly a full minute to get the defenses set up around Drellin's Ferry, and then he brought in survey teams to do scans for more of them around other locations where he had populations. The fact that it appeared to be a core bomb, when he hadn't every brought them out of his domain, and the novas had only come in extra-dimensional storage units, was not a good sign. The blast would not be contained, but directed upwards, leaving a crater about 50ft across, and ten deep, but the shield would work. He then had a team begin carefully unearthing it, and attempt defusing it, as they had no idea what it had been set to go off on. He was worried it was supposed to react to a divine power source, so he wasn't going to move near his populations until he knew for a fact that they were safe.