Variks is a traitor , Like the drifter says "If he is so loyal, where is he?" He should have been one of our forsaken targets I vote for our buddy Mithrax, half you -blam!- kill him anyway, even after he surrenders the reactor to you, and he still forgives you Mithrax has understood that the Eliksni have no future without the help of the great Machine and it's chosen , something other fallen are too stubborn and brainwashed to grasp , so they get Nova Bombed