Marchion was all alone, and should be completely vulnerable…but somehow, he wasn’t. He was protected, by the system his much smarter father had set up. It was annoying…but it worked. Hell, Kassav had copied a lot of Asgar’s ideas for his own Tempest. Kassav had three Storms up at the top of his Tempest’s hierarchy: Gravhan, Dellex, and Wet Bub. They all wanted to be him, but they would never work together to get rid of him, because then none of them would be the Tempest Runner—they’d still just be three Storms sharing power. Yep. It was a good little system.
It is a good system for keeping back-stabbing murderers working together cooperatively -- as long as all three subordinates remain at relatively equal levels of power.
