Everybody is somebody's family

Everybody is somebody's family. We all know this, but sometimes these things slip our mind in the middle of life happening. It's all too easy to see Destroyer's soldiers as the enemy, but what we've learned recently with the help of Sharp and her team is that they are also victims of Destroyer. These men have had their family members imprisoned - their wives, their sisters, their parents, and their children, all being held prisoner so Destroyer can coerce them into doing his bidding. Just hearing Sharp tell me this story, I can feel rage boiling within me. The Spirits were once somebodies’ family too, and their loss and their pain fuels my emotions just thinking about it.
 
I have a new "family" and I have put my trust in them due to our common plight, but it's been difficult to make a real connection to some of them. Honestly, it's been difficult to make a connection with any of them. I felt one with Aaron, but it was fleeting. As a believer in the Divine, there must be something there - why would a man in a coma tell me to protect his daughter and send me to her if there wasn't?
 
For the first time in a while, it feels like we aren't rushed into action. Could it be we're the ones who are one step ahead for a change? We arrive in the area that couldn't be scanned near Leonard, Michigan to find the large compound Destroyer's solider told Sharp about. It's surrounded by large machinery that Max identifies as generating a form of suppression field. I'm having flashbacks to that night I escaped one of Destroyers compounds, and if we're going to get into the compound and save anybody, those machines cannot be left standing. We have the advantage and a plan to distract them away from our location, much to Lil' Rocket's detriment. He disassembles the field generator furthest from us, but really feels the effect. So, it worked, but they send just two technicians to check it out. In the end, our plan was only slightly more effective than "no plan". Smashing it is.
 
I volunteer to work with Sharp to take one of the generators out - I need to know if she can handle things on her own, and I can be there in case we get in over our heads. It turns out I can channel the Spirits through the machinery in such a destructive way that it only takes one shot to disable it - perhaps their incompatibility with energy works both ways? Sharp leaps into the compound to engage the soldiers just before I can take out the next generator. I panic for a moment, but she's fine, she shrugged it off like a champ. We've identified civilians inside the compound milling about, listless and lifeless, moving slower than the zombies from the Walking Dead. Damnit, there really are children in there. What would I do if Maud or Isabella were being held like this? Would Destroyer have enough hold over me that I would do his bidding? I don't want to know the answer - for my own sake I can't have those thoughts. It's those thoughts and the radio message from Sharp that really chill me though. Sharp calls out that there's a cemetery just inside the walls.
 
This isn't going to end well for Destroyer - This compound is getting shut down if I have to blast it down with my last ounce of energy.