He looked at her for an instant, than shrugged. "The order was not to kill unless necessary, right? If we left our clones alive, they could have destroyed far more lives than your average human clone. They might have changed the military makeup of the planet's security forces, stamped out the CLF and any other dissident clones altogether. And they could only have been manufactured because we were here. I'd say that sounds pretty necessary."

"...besides," he said a little more quietly, "I wouldn't wish that kind of life on anyone."