"Because armies never get anybody talking." Damn you, Doc, if you're not here, then Jack will be the one to stand here and say that. "If all she actually wants is to talk to us and hear how we're going to stop the Calamity, stopping the WEAPON will get us talking. And the army can't do that. We can. I like Ales' plan to hack the damn thing again, personally."

"Because the problem is that she isn't nuts. Insane is harder to plan for. She's flat out told us what she's doing."

"You want the army to do something, leave them in the city as the second wave. If she attacks the city directly, then, yes, she gets everything she deserves, and Aqures Ixen rises to defend itself again. But she's drawing the best defense we have, namely us, out of the city. Let's not commit everything to one front."