Thought I needed help and worked it out before anyone responded.

Hi Sam, I finally beat this game and am very glad it's over at last. I do like a challenge and this one is certainly that in spades. It is also, however, not one I would care to repeat even knowing what I know now. Too darn many head-aches and frustrations that go way beyond challenges. I liked the ending as it is exactly what I hoped for other than Murkon's own reaction to it. I stopped seeing him as a villain a long while ago and felt him justified in feeling betrayed and maligned unjustly considering what use he forsaw it being put to when he 'absconded with it' in the first place. He (INHO) was a victim of malicious propaganda spread by a mad-man and also felt sorry that he took his spleen out on the poor doped suckers who really thought he was as he was painted and felt they were doing the 'right thing' against a traitor and villain.
Too bad he couldn't have shared his insight with more ordinary people and turned them against the insane power-maniac King. Heck, it was fun in some ways. Just not an experience I'd care to repeat. Thanks for all your help. Banan