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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SolitonMan" data-source="post: 4719675" data-attributes="member: 22433">As I read through this strip I found myself recollecting the old Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) story arc, "Genesis of the Daleks".  The Doctor is transported to Skaro as Davros is just creating the first of the Daleks, with the intended mission to stop him before he gets started.  The Doctor actually reaches a point where he could destroy all the Daleks and end the threat right then and there.But he stops himself and starts reflecting on the consequences.  One of the things that he realized that is relevant to this thread is that while the Daleks were evil, not everything that resulted from their existence was evil.  For example, many species that would otherwise have been hostile to each other ended up allying and fighting against the Daleks and becoming friends.In the case of V commiting familicide, the larger consequences are unforeseeable for the world, but clearly V was acting in a purely selfish manner - family protection notwithstanding.  With that much raw arcane power, V could simply have made all members of his/her family permanently imperceivable to the dragon's kin (e.g. - mind blank and superior invisibility and nondetection, etc.) instead of slaying all the kin.  That's just one of what I'm sure are hundreds of options available to such a powerful arcane caster.DEFINITELY looking forward to what happens next!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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