Man, I don't even know what's going on here right now.
Broadly, I think this is the governor of... Presumably this insane fuckfest of a system, who's a massive purist on the one hand, but he backs that with Actual Competence and a willingness not to buy more trouble than he needs to, but he's being fucked around with by what's presumably burgeoning Chaos Influence what with the whole "We're making basically braindead abhumans mistresses just to mock you" sort of thing going on, which is... Not okay and also way out of the Imperial Line--and as we just saw, they had prepped a coup that accidentally ended up getting flummoxed by the Inquisitor rolling in and conscripting the SDF to do a Xeno Purge (And thus, the orbitals weren't actually seized because they had command of the entire SDF).
But apparently, the option that makes him nicer to his children somehow makes the civil war even bloodier. And presumably the child is a nascent Psyker who will not cope well with being Patriarch'd, or else this would probably be a no brainer.
And more importantly, what option is actually better for our interests? A bloodier civil war just benefits Chaos (Which we know had what was apparently a major station here, we're living in it!) But it also keeps the Imperial presence at each other's throats, which gives us room to move, and we know he's coming to us either way, and he's a pragmatist before all else.
[X] I will watch over you
Still, I will never say no to the option that shows humanity in the most inhumane of settings. Even if this somehow makes things worse.
