Alexios wondered what to do: the army greatly admired Nikephoros Diogenes, so he did not have the strength to arrest all the known conspirators, nor the stomach to subject them all to mutilation. He decided to punish only the ringleaders with confiscation and exile: Diogenes himself and Kekaumenos Katakalon were sent to prison in Kaisaropolis, Michael Taronites (and others - lacuna) were also exiled. Apart from these, he thought it safest not even to investigate the conspirators, and exile meant only confinement to their own areas. His allies were furious at his leniency