User blog comment:TheWiseAnon/Blackbeard's Prey/@comment-1595565-20100801205624

True it might not mean they're dead, but how would the gorousei know that BB made one of them his prey? They wouldn't know what he's thinking, so they wouldn't know what Supernova he's going to attack until he attacks them. It's not like he called them and said "Hey, just so you know, I'm going to try to bump off that Apoo guy." I think the Supernova has already been defeated.