Yes. I did. I extricated these misfits from- (stuttering) From danger, they deserve to be heard, not executed.

So what? We sit here in gold and silk, every day the Emperor enslaves and extinguishes the lives of innocent people!

Yes, father, he should speak of it. Because it's the truth. You all know, the Emperor burns through civilisations like the plague, and yet we proceed to do nothing aobut it! (pauses for a moment) These clowns, these rebels, have been the only ones in centuries to resist him.