Even if they didn't corrupt people... I wouldn't think someone would give up that kind of power easily.

[Though perhaps that's just innate to the kind of power they have at all—nothing mystical or magical about it, just the natural course of human nature should anyone use it. He doesn't know enough to make a determination about it, though. There's... a lot of things he doesn't know, he's come to realize, even before coming here.]

I guess we've got a lot of work to do.