You don't. [Which is its own giant can of worms, and one that's plagued him ever since he arrived, but that aside.] But I got to know them pretty well, what with four years of them trying to alternately eradicate and enslave us. You learn things with all that time.
And what I learned was this: they didn't understand death, not the way people do. They didn't even understand the magnitude of what they'd done to us. Fifty billion humans, wiped out, and they couldn't even begin to accept the reality of that. I mean, why would they? Death was a frakking nuisance, not an end. And they learned the same lesson, in the end, because some faction finally came around and asked us, actually offered to help us destroy their resurrection technology.
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And what I learned was this: they didn't understand death, not the way people do. They didn't even understand the magnitude of what they'd done to us. Fifty billion humans, wiped out, and they couldn't even begin to accept the reality of that. I mean, why would they? Death was a frakking nuisance, not an end. And they learned the same lesson, in the end, because some faction finally came around and asked us, actually offered to help us destroy their resurrection technology.