@BlackPanther@Esailia@canaryroseOk I was part of the original story before I messed up and stopped writing in it and didn't say anything to anybody. It was rude and yeah I definitely messed up.
Anyways I went with (as in didn't find an issue with it) the idea of the injections because we are playing characters who are from the Empire's perspective supposed to serve the Empire.
And since our characters are already injected, there's nothing we can do to prevent it. So it puts our characters in a forced group survival mode where if we like it or not we're forced to travel/live/talk to each other.
Now, I know Esailia was more talking about the Empire's perspective. That's more like talking about the G.M.'s perspective as he is playing the ascended or the Empire's representative. I think its best we allow ourselves to follow along with the G.M. as I'm sure he has ideas and reasoning for the injections the Empire uses. It's probably something that would make more sense later on in the story.
(Like why would the Emperor inject trusted soldiers and prisoners with the same bomb?) It could be that secretly he doesn't trust anyone with the amulet pieces and so its a win win situation for him.
If they destroy the amulet pieces great. If they dont destroy the amulet pieces and instead steal it for themselves, he can kill all the betrayers in one fell swoop with the bomb.
Plus think of it this way, would you think that someone who leads a massive empire would really care if a couple soldiers died along with the prisoners. He's not a family person. He only cares about power. The emperor probably doesn't even really trust the ascended templar markovic.