"Excellent." I sat down and requested a couple of coffees from Jeeves. I was silent for a moment, scrubbing my face with my hands. "The thing is, Gar, even with this stuff we can’t do more than delay and annoy the Others. The more I see of them, the bigger and more invincible they look. Their population, based on the latest models, could easily be a couple of hundred billion. They could field a space navy that would just roll over us, if we really pissed them off."