Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-25890179-20171023023623/@comment-4960835-20171116205438

That's preferable

Gortoi isn't your typical villain, and has never been quite villaneous for that matter. He genuinely believes that the ACC provide the best means to shelter the Death Watch (or his faction of it, at the very least), and though he may want to join Kirta, he knows Mortox would never be OK with that. He's regretful about it, but at the same time would rather seek death than betray the one who kept him and his gang safe as promised (don't call him Mortox's lapdog tough, that's his berserk button).

He actually likes Kirta killing Lorka, seeing him as a traitor to Tox' ideals. More specifically, he sees him betraying Mortox' patronage for that of the Proditkar as a risk that could backfire enormously - and given the state of the Proditkar, it obviously did.

As for the True Death Watch, true to their name they have kept the same ranking system as existed under Tox, not gong along with whatever reform happened when Lorka entered the Proditkar. In fact, their technology and such is purely Mendel with little to no Groxic tech incorporated into it (courtesey of Mortox keeping his vassals on a long leash). They work with the ACC and do use more cybernatics that other Mendel, but they don't actively turn themselves into cyborgs or anything and use the ACC mainly as a means to an end (the conquest of the Mendel).

Finally, it should be noted that Gortoi is, unknowingly to himself, somewhat of a hypocrite. He's been amassing a fleet powerful enough to take over the Mendel Pact in one go, and, true to Tox' wish, put it under the rulership of the Cano Clan.


 * Kirta - But then, what about the Grox?

Gortoi can't really answer that, which is when he simply shuts off communications and tries to shoot Kirta out of the sky.