Uninhabited. It might have been a highly destructive mistake, but it hadn't killed people. If Jack hadn't faced off against Abaddon...
He meets John's eyes for a brief moment, hoping that whatever he's about to say won't reflect too terribly on him, in retrospect, before he continues to explain himself a little further.
"We opened the Rift to save some of the members of our team who had been -- kidnapped through time," he explains. "But it didn't really -- close after that. People started to fall through the Rift into our time. Through time. Romans. Soldiers from the Civil War -- the English one, that is. Carriers of the Bubonic Plague. There was an outbreak, and we. The only way we had to send them all back was to open it up again. And in doing that we released. I don't know. A demon, who had been imprisoned in the Rift. Abaddon, it was called. The Great Devourer. And in doing so." He presses his lips together. "A lot of people died before we could destroy it. Like I said. It's not really something that we'd ever want to chance repeating again..."
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He meets John's eyes for a brief moment, hoping that whatever he's about to say won't reflect too terribly on him, in retrospect, before he continues to explain himself a little further.
"We opened the Rift to save some of the members of our team who had been -- kidnapped through time," he explains. "But it didn't really -- close after that. People started to fall through the Rift into our time. Through time. Romans. Soldiers from the Civil War -- the English one, that is. Carriers of the Bubonic Plague. There was an outbreak, and we. The only way we had to send them all back was to open it up again. And in doing that we released. I don't know. A demon, who had been imprisoned in the Rift. Abaddon, it was called. The Great Devourer. And in doing so." He presses his lips together. "A lot of people died before we could destroy it. Like I said. It's not really something that we'd ever want to chance repeating again..."