Quote Originally Posted by All_Nonsense View Post
We literally spent hundreds of hours giving our "answer" in the first story arc: All life is valuable and deserves to live. We literally opposed the Ascians who were a "higher" form of life who did not see us as truly alive. So now we go somewhere and find a foreign and unrecognized form of life clinging on after their world was destroyed, and we.......kill them because we didn't see them as truly alive?
It's not an "unrecognized form of life"; it's literally straight-up explained as an AI simulation of what a person once was, only it requires actual aether to power it...aether that the Alexandrians' world had run out of, so now they're going around killing actual life to power the AI's. It's not a question of how we "see them" - it's literally killing real life to power AI simulations.