Eh. Miles doesn't mind too much. He'll be under more scrutiny from the locals for much higher stakes. He taps his fingers against his chin as he thinks.

"I mean that they've done it to other planets before," he says with a wince. Which is to actually say that he knows what Cetaganda actually did in pursuit of conquering this planet. "This will be the ninth planet in their empire if they succeed. And they'll absorb all our culture into theirs. Nuke major population centers. Or bioengineer plagues depending on exactly how many of us they want to leave alive."