“But if we’re just going to walk straight in there, we’re going to lose spectacularly. If she pulls out that black lance again, it won’t be a question of whether we’ll survive, the entire mountain’ll probably get blown into smithereens. I guess it’d be a quick, painless death, but that’s still a stupid ending.”

Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: The Atlas Contract (Upper); Chapter 3, Part 5