Quote Originally Posted by tokinokanatae View Post
On the other hand, since Etheirys was always the target and the other planets got caught in the crossfire, it makes sense to first secure the safety of Etheirys before debating over what to do about the Problem of Meteion. I do think the Ancients would feel enough responsibility to want to confront the issue--if only because the threat could potentially become powerful enough to overcome their defenses--but also because of what we see in Amaurot. Even when the Sound was "other people's problems", the idea that they wouldn't send what assistance they had was just an idle debate in the halls of rhetoric, not a course of action taken seriously by either of the participants in the debate.

Finally, the biggest issue is that the scenario you outlined is only a hypothetical because Venat didn't do what you suggested. If things had played out the way you outlined, I think a lot of us in the thread would have been a lot less angry with Venat. We would have gotten the feeling that she worked early and fast to try to save her people, only choosing to Sunder when it appeared that all hope was truly lost. It's an entirely different matter to come in and berate people for not properly facing a despair they weren't allowed to prepare for.
I think if they were given the full account of what really was at stake, they may have even re-oriented their philosophy to re-populating some of those other worlds as they took on a custodian role once Meteion was defeated. A lot of these worlds were already barren, but the ancients had a gift in being able to create life.