For two thousand years the cybernetic intelligences of Pelora took care of those we chose to defend. Most Peloran don’t want to fight after all. They will if ordered which made them good soldiers for the Ennead, but few volunteer. We volunteered to watch over them. We were friends of course, but we lived apart from them. And very few of us were more than friends. We lived in separate worlds and liked it that way. It was the way of things.