User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140107032124/@comment-1600847-20140108010007

It's common sense, Zipper. You don't publish something in the army that can piss off your superior. Especially in a medieval army where you can be executed with a wave of the hand and no one would bat an eyelash. Read The Infernal City and Lord of Souls. The Penitus Occulatus assassinate people quite often on the Emperor's behest.

No Legate could have known that without having gone to the Dominion and counted their troops or having been told by the Dominion.

Nowhere in the book does it says he forcibly recruited people to his cause, only that he killed a lot of people, which is corrobarated by the Reachmen in Cidna Mine.