He sighs, and admits, "Very possibly the second. Let's take a less complex case, then--a simple matter of being imperio'd past sanity, and forced to linger as a deranged husk, having undergone this wound in an act of heroism in support a government too...." he pauses, "cautious of its pollings to provide a budget for research with applications not particularly commercial, and too sentimental than to put a valued but destroyed servant out of its misery."