( it'd be exceedingly, exceedingly obvious — more than he has been already — to offer the information written or at another time, so

well

he gets on with it. )

When the United Earth destroyed Exsilium, it wasn't a random attack. Probably, something like that had been planned for a while...but to do it at that time, was in retaliation for something. A counter-attack on the part of the people here.