He shook his head. “I know they’re supposed to be brutal, that all they want to do is destroy other life forms -- but that just makes it more important to find out why they’re angry and set up some sort of peace agreement. If they’re really that xenocidal, the only other alternative is dragging everyone on this ship into a fight to the last being that might not have to happen at all. I mean,” he looked both of them in the eye, “you hate the Ohm because the ship says they destroyed our homes. What’s their reason for hating us? Did the Daligig kill one of their hive queens or vape their original dimension? If you decide to go on the attack without knowing why they’re fighting, you’re just going to get a load of innocent people hurt. At least,” he said, with a tight, rueful smile, “that’s what we learned last time we ran into a bunch of hateful killer extragalactic invaders.”