"You know, in the long run, Zetta makes an important point," Signum admits, obviously quite grudgingly. "We're not here to be moral arbiters, we're here to save the multiverse."

She looks up from where she was staring rather intently at a table for - oy - agreeing with Zetta. "However, in the short term, sacrificing everything from basic humanity - sapienity, rather - on up through our dignity for some fancy surgical equipment isn't a worthwhile trade. And for that matter, leaving a world a slightly better place than we found it, while possibly a distraction, is a hell of a laudable distraction."