[ He listens silently through the story and doesn't look away. On the surface it's a lot to take in, but the actual facts of it really just speaks to humanity. Perhaps personhood because he's not sure what to call it when you start including nonhumans that seem to fall into all the same traps. ]

That's some pretty bad luck. That last part, anyway. Before that is way more than just a challenge. And that kind of... no-win situation was common?

[ How does one somehow destroy a planet anyway? [