@akje

Fresh Fledgelings are pretty much at a Captain America level of physical strength and speed. Also, they can't be killed by bullets, unless you manage to completely destroy the head.

I still don't get why SOLDIER even uses guns....

But yeah, the answer is that they are incredibly dangerous. The upside is that they have a mind of their own, and probably don't like Void very much. So at least half of them are going to be attacking Void, the other half will be running.

They only really become a threat when they get hungry...

@akje

Silver bullets would do nothing. Although they're probably using hollow-point rounds to maximize the damage. If you manage to destroy the brain, you kill them. Other than that, nothing will bother them.

Also, I always thought there was more to turning someone into a vampire than biting them. Like, they have to drink some of your blood as well, or something like that.

But all these fledgelings aren't going to be biting anyone. I mean, if you were suddenly attacked and turned, would you go around spreading vampirism? Especially with a group of soldiers shooting at you, you're going to be running like crazy. They'll lie low until they get hungry, maybe return to the locations that meant something to them in life.

Also, wouldn't slaughtering the Fledgelings be illegal? I mean, technically speaking, they haven't broken the Compact. I'd think there would be some moral compunction to slaughtering what are essentially innocent bystanders.

@The Grey Dust

See, it turns out the Purge and Bedhivere CAN see eye-to-eye on some issues. They should form a blow-Void-out-of-the-sky club.

But it can't be blown up now without MASSIVE retcons.

@The Grey Dust

I wasn't being serious.......

I'm going to have the SOLDIER boss-people refuse and then attempt to murder Kami no Kage, stating that the Purge is far more dangerous even than the vampires or something like that. This mentality would also explain why Matt attacked the Purge on-sight originally. I also think it muddles the borders a bit from the Purge being pure-evil to maybe being not-pure-evil-but-still-pretty-bad.

Any objections? Just checking, cuz story consequences.

<Snipped quote by thewizardguy>

I have that problem where I cannot seem to detect sarcasm/facetiousness
Hence I tend to take people rather seriously to the point of escalation.
Which, as you can imagine, gets me into some trouble in communications.

Sun has gone down at this point.
Bedevere can wake up and go trough his morning routine.
Would he send those instructions himself or does he have servants that do that?