The Ancients still deserved better, after everything

[TaleraRistain]

They're still going to judge if it's a good fit for their star's ecosystem, or otherwise natural selection will very brutally make that decision on their behalf, which was their concern with the lykaones.

That's the question, though. What makes them think they have the right to decide that? The star isn't their creation. It's their home. And it's not a dishonorable thing to want to improve it. But it is a problem to decide that something doesn't have worth to the star just because of their own views. Like you said, natural selection may have made that decision but there also could be benefit in that it would lead to prey creatures that are sharper and more aware so they don't fall victim to those predators. You don't ever see them considering that viewpoint. But it's like the difference between a carefully cultivated garden of flowers and a field of wildflowers. The field of wildflowers isn't any less beautiful just because it developed naturally. Hermes was not perfect, but he was one person at least who was willing to let something natural be natural and see how it would evolve. Maybe others happily cut that growth off at the knees. And all because they had established themselves as the beings who were there to make that decision.

The Occuria in XII were the same way. They had decided they were the arbiters of peace on their planet. They felt it was their place to pull the strings of mankind because they were preventing war. They refused to allow mankind to develop as they would, to maybe fight but also maybe learn and grow and find a way to their own peace.