Perhaps the number of worlds is so great that they have devised this system.

[ Dion regrets the sound of the words even as he says them, but he was dropped into Aphaia as his first mission. It would make a certain terrible sense if those in charge of this effort had finite resources that, on the scale of worlds, may only extend so far.

That would not stop people like them from trying to change things, just as he and Joshua had during their time there. Yet looking at the perspective of those weighing the worth of their worlds is something they must try to do for any such efforts to be effective. ]

The price of our arrivals is necessary... And surely of far lesser weight than the whole of a world.