A weapon that transforms people instead of killing them. That seems... counterproductive to most goals of warfare.

[ What an interesting idea. Erik tucks the thought away, until he can properly mull it over. Asking Alex any more questions about it would probably not net him any useful knowledge and definitely would upset him. ]

I suppose we can count ourselves fortunate on one front, at least. I'm sure our captors would have unleashed such a thing on us already if they had the means to do so.