After all, an agent on the inside of a rival organization was always worth more, operationally speaking, than a loyal servitor in one’s own. - Charles E. Gannon

Riordan stared. “Your…media…really advertised things like, uh, canned vegetables named after mythical monsters?”
Paulsen shook his head. “You wouldn’t believe what our media did, on occasion.”

Well, so be it. Today we only have time for the truth. Battles are won by facts and physics, not self-congratulatory ideology.

You must remind yourself—hourly—that Caine Riordan is but one human. He is an aberration among them, a flicker of conscience that his own megacorporate kin would have extinguished if he had not run far and fast. Do not let his noble deed seduce you into thinking the rest of his race are capable of something similar….
"And Riordan himself. What do I tell him?"
"Hu'urs Khraam looked at Darzhee Kut closely. "Tell him that his deed was noble and we are grateful for it. And, if you think he is ready to hear it, you should also tell him that we can already measure how much his deed will change the outcome of this war."
"Really? How much?"
"Not at all.