I will be honest with you. I was the one who used the grenades to destroy the machine. We had reason to believe it contained the existences of all those that had been droned here.

Of all the people I have heard speaking on the line, you are the first who actually made enough sense to rate an explanation.

We were trying to break out, and save those we had already lost. Our information was incomplete, and the undertaking failed, but those who railed against our attempt are being utterly foolish and dependent on the good graces of those that kidnapped us.

[ he pauses. ]

So now you know the truth of it.