[They're not human, and they don't think like humans. Perhaps that goes without saying, but his exposure to non-humans both at home and here all still showed them to be similar enough, with similar wants and needs.

The similarities here are harder to find. They're right, these things - every community, every village and every nation, wants to grow and prosper. Sometimes because they all work together, but sometimes because those at the top are endlessly greedy. This feels like both of those things have merged into one, creating a species of ravenous hunger with no care for anything else.

Well, he wanted to know what they were. Goal accomplished, in some small part.]

I'd like to see our own flourish alongside others, without one consuming the other. There's space enough in all these worlds for everyone. Except, perhaps, your people. I'm sure our own here on the station will find a way to dig you out of Newton, because there's no place for you here.