A whole planet, even, before... and now after the war.

[Her smile is easy, the brief melancholy washed away. Her planet was healing, and here..? Well, it hadn't even begun yet.]

If I understand it right, that's what's supposed to happen. The Firstforged would be... well, the first. After them comes the rest of us.

But like you say, that'll be in time, when everything is more settled.

[She looks up, frowning at the Lambda's tear in the sky.]

And, I suppose, after that has somehow been dealt with.