Pov Vecna:
For me, as for others, the conquest of our universe has always been secondary, something that had to be done to acquire sufficient resources and sufficient labor.
People's freedom, their contentment, and other things didn't matter. If we talked, everyone would die anyway. There was no point in thinking about everyone's lives beyond the bare minimum to avoid inconvenience.
"(What a compassionate person~... sacrificing so much for the universe~...)" (????)
"(You can mock all you want, but thanks to that, we had all the resources of our universe at our disposal. All the other scientists and scholars were serving as research assistants, whether they knew it or not.)" (me)