Besides, sometimes they hold a grudge with the demon they already know than with the one(s) they don't.

[ Adela then turns around, and sits beside the gigantic machine, simply to stare off at the starships. ]

I think... that's inevitable, in some way? My peoples were the descendants of people that left a horrible regime that formed on Earth. A 'Citizen Republic'. Mis Tatas left, hopeing that we'd get a better life on a new constellarion, but we continued wanting our own sand castles, dividing ourselves by petty strifes... even as we found alien enemies on two sides.