While operating under the assumption that the COPE members are planning a mass suicide, Darius and his staff are concerned about having another Jonestown on their hands. Led by reverend Jim Jones, the mass suicide by members of the Peoples Temple cult in 1978 resulted in 909 deaths at the Jonestown settlement, and was the single greatest loss of American civilian life until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
After the successful test of the railgun, Liam said it was the "shot heard around the world". The quote is attributable to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the opening stanza of the poem "Concord Hymn"(1837)