That statement, more than anything, silenced the hall, whose members valued nothing more than benefits, and if events would shape the way everyone here was expecting it to, then losing out in the next ten thousand years of plunder would be a painful loss.
Besides, they all knew they were not the only ones eyeing the seat on the Covenant, and many of their peers would kill to become part of this group, and most of them knew they were here because of the sacrifices they made, and they would not give up the benefits that should come their way because of minor politics.
