The news, while expected, still dropped like a bomb on Damien. Just because he saw the warhead being launched didn't mean he would receive it easily. It was worse when it was a long drawn out civil war as was this case.

Damien didn't answer for the longest time while he simply digested the news. Let Spencer think he was weighing his choices, or whatever he interpreted the long silence to be.

It was over a minute since Spencer's answer that Damien spoke. "No, just have clean up take care of it. He should already know they failed, no message to send back." Because, what was the point? Things wouldn't change even if they sent one of them back in a coffin addressed to his father. If anything, it may enrage the old man into something equally drastic. "Thanks for your hard work, that's all."