"Everything’s a matter of faction security with your lot," she said. "I shouldn’t take you any farther, or show you anything more. This Nest, these creatures—they’re not intelligent , Captain. They can’t think, they can’t learn. They’re innocent, primordially innocent. They have no knowledge of good and evil. They had no knowledge of anything . The last thing they need is to become pawns in a power struggle within some other race, light-years away."