I always despised the Coordinator's company and appreciated his presence. If ever I had a very bad day, I knew he would leave me ample opportunity to let the venom out. It is why, I confess, I am not altogether distressed that he is here. [Clearly he is only miffed about the tongue thing because it gets in the way of arguing.] Henry Irving was an actor-manager from England, Earth in what was known as the Victorian period. He did a lot of good work for Shakespearean acting. The actor-manager is a person that more or less vanished from theatre by the end of the following century, replaced by those who were strictly managers. It is the distinction between armies where generals direct from the back and those where generals lead from the front lines. When the Heletian Empire collapses, it is because they were hoist by their own petard. [He puts down his first black piece to claim a bit of Asia.]