They knew in advance. They could have evacuated people. Instead, they used the citizens as test subjects, in experiments on hyperresonance... [He meets her eyes, briefly, and glances away again.] ...and fomicry. The replica labs were empty, by the time Fabre attacked; but the hyperresonance research...

[He stops, and shakes his head.] That's why Hod fell. The Score may as well have been an excuse to them.