Yeah. Emperor Peony didn't want war, either. Mohs was pushing for it the whole time-- he had Uncle's ear and everything, and of course no one wanted to disobey Daath, so...

[He can kind of guess where the other Luke's thoughts are going.]

More-- uh, not more of me, no... but replicas were being mass-produced for a little while. There's at least a couple thousand left. Probably more. Replicas were showing up to their own funerals, so it was a bad situation. Some of them don't even know how to talk, so they can't really help themselves.