Episode Discussion - S03E10 "Dandelion Sky"

Again, I don't think you can say "they did what we are doing" because we don't know anything about them. We don't know who they are, what they are, why they built anything, what they wanted, or where they went.

Maybe they weren't careless, maybe they were prevented from exercising more care? Maybe they had to flee from the ring gates, or they got killed, or died off before they could clean up something like Phoebe.

Maybe they didn't consider life at our level advanced enough to be worth protecting. Maybe they are so far beyond us that we are like an ant colony to them; neat, but not unique or worth protecting from highway construction.

We can't ascribe human motivations to them because We. Don't. Know.

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