[A pause. There's no point in being vague and cryptic--they were all gone anyway, and Federation politics weren't really applicable here.]
Them--The Metroids--they were too dangerous to exist. They were a highly mutagenic life form capable of terrible destruction. The Federation ordered their genocide, lest they fall into the wrong hands.
...of course, they considered their own hands an exception. This didn't become apparent to me until after the fact, and they had cloned them in secret.
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[A pause. There's no point in being vague and cryptic--they were all gone anyway, and Federation politics weren't really applicable here.]
Them--The Metroids--they were too dangerous to exist. They were a highly mutagenic life form capable of terrible destruction. The Federation ordered their genocide, lest they fall into the wrong hands.
...of course, they considered their own hands an exception. This didn't become apparent to me until after the fact, and they had cloned them in secret.