Tempus seemed like an easy going leader for an Original. Ever since he had been put in charge of the second family following Cindy's betrayal, he had done well to reformat and implement changes. It turned out that there were far more underlying problems than the others had originally thought.
Under Cindy's rule, the men of the second family had been discriminated against. No matter how much promise they might have shown, most had been put aside, never receiving a promotion to the inner castle. As for those, who had actually received that highly sought after promotion, they would disappear, having actually been sent off to be tested and experimented on.