Interesting. Marco filed that piece of information away for future reference.

<Tom's dead back home,> Marco said bluntly. <At the end of the war, Iniss was going to fly off and start his own little empire. We couldn't capture him. If we let him go, we'd have condemned some other planet to slavery. And Tom would have had to spend the rest of his life a slave, with no hope of freedom, because even though Iniss had the morphing cube and could have just morphed permanently, he was never going to let Tom go.>

Although technically, it was only Jake who'd made that call. Jake, who had to sentence his own brother to death. But Dean didn't need to know that.