He snarled at his daughters. "I damn near ordered the quarantining of more than a hundred thousand troops because of that faulty information!"<br/><br/>He took a deep breath, and started explaining. "Back when I thought my beyonder was a chaos entity, I used some of its latent energies to come up with a serum that would function as an augmentation. You two got the first version. That is why you are two are so powerful, as instead of the magic max of +5s, you two got the equivalent of +6s. I played with the serum, trying to water it down some more, and gave it to another sibling, who got +8s. I played with that serum some more, trying to understand why it was getting stronger instead of weaker as I watered it down further, and tried again.<br/><br/>The results of that serum..."<br/><br/>He sighed, and ran a hand through his hair, and shook his head. "I abandoned the project, move that child's soul to a new body, and kept the old, now horribly mutated and disfigured, body in my lab for further study. Everyone since that one has gotten the more power intensive but dependable magical augments.<br/><br/>Standard health care for pregnant spouses includes full blood work for both them and the child. Barid has been looking for something that can be injected into base troops to augment them, but his scientists would not understand what they were looking at because of all the alterations I did to the energy signatures. And that is before the mutations that would occur due to a child."<br/><br/>He gave the two a flat look, before raising an eyebrow. "Now that you have gotten information above your security clearance, don't you feel good? Knowing the horrible things that can happen because of good intentions and half information?"