She droops her eyelids at him, her eyes darkening. "Were none of them innocent, ever? What about other children, who might be trapped in other FAYZes - would you condemn them as well? The adults if they were still alive somewhere, the animals, the plants, the Earth itself - nothing was worth missing?"

Because the Empire would drop an entire planet full of sentients into a sun, just for fun. She'd seen it done. She'd seen it vidstreamed, for entertainment.

"A Jesus in the mines," she scowls thoughtfully. "One who didn't rise up and fly away to Heaven, I guess. I'm not that familiar with gods; the ones in my universe were either benign or so evil you kept your distance. Sounds like you got stuck with one of the second." Hopefully this 'Space Jesus' wouldn't come popping out of the pods any time soon.