It was just a bigger example of what had been happening for years. Thousands of us starved in the gutters, and no one cared. We died, a few every day. But over the years...it added up.

[And now the smile flickers.]

Traitor, for one. But I'd earned it.

[A bit of release of tension around the shoulders.] That sounds like Blurr, the one I met.

[Drift nods.] Dozens, at least, planets we'd conquered, or tried to. Beings made entirely of silicates. And, where I'm from, we had another dimension, the Void, bleeding into ours.

This is just...more. [He tips his head up at the Lambda, visible in the sky.] And that's what brought us here.