[Something threatens to crumble beneath him at that question; he'd thought about it so much, had wondered about it but ultimately decided it was best not to risk his family's lives until they were done. The hand over Hiro's tightens and he swallows back the lump forming in his throat.]
It wasn't safe to come back here. Not yet. There was a lot of stuff out there we had to get back.
[Had to go get their own tech back so it couldn't just be replicated. Had to make sure any schematics and blueprints were mysteriously destroyed.]
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It wasn't safe to come back here. Not yet. There was a lot of stuff out there we had to get back.
[Had to go get their own tech back so it couldn't just be replicated. Had to make sure any schematics and blueprints were mysteriously destroyed.]