... Well, we venerate them, but mostly back home our gods are worthy of respect, due caution, and the stewardship we were given and, once upon a time, squandered. Calling on them is for fools and the desperate. They are as capricious as nature itself, because in many ways, they are nature itself.

I try to avoid their attention, for the most part.

... We created machines and processes that poisoned the very earth, to prevent our homes from being destroyed.

And they threw wide the gates to the heavens and invaded. This was one of several conflicts at the time, but as a direct result, my mother became a pilot.