Their rival, the Violet Meteor bubble world, had of course come with their group of three geniuses, escorted by an elder of their Clan. It was already a slap in the face enough that they only sent a mere elder as though this service was owed to them, but to also come with a Tier 3 General of the Void Army to conscript his daughter away was a level even more shameless than anything he could have possibly expected.
While it was true that conscriptions in times of hazard were not uncommon, how was it possible for a Surge to be coming without him, the Patriarch of the Nightwell Clan, not being informed about it? And on top of that, there were several unwritten rules when it came to conscriptions, one of which most definitely protected a Clan genius on the level of Crystella.