"Oh, no.  The Old Ones might grok it as beauty.  I don't know.  Oh, I have the discipline to do it... but not the volition.  Jill could do it - that is, she could contemplate the exact method.  But she could never will to do it; she is human too; this is her planet.  The essence of the discipline is, first, self-awareness, and then, self-control.  By the time a human is physically able to destroy this planet by this method - instead of by clumsy things like cobalt bombs - it is not possible, I grok fully, for him to entertain such a volition.  He would discorporate.  And that would end any threat; our Old Ones don't hang around the way they do on Mars."