[Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, Luna just finds it funny whenever people are surprised at her or others of her kind -- that they can have their own thoughts, and motivations, and that their shells are so deceptively difficult to see through.

For some reason the gods have thrown a few ambassadors of the roomba kind into the mix, and she is absolutely having a good time with it.]

Yes, I remember your alien invasion problem.

[She mentions it with the same placid tone you'd mention a particularly thorny math problem on a high school quiz. Sometimes that's just the way things go.]

So your planet is slowly being poisoned -- these kaiju that you speak of, they seem to be using a scorched earth strategy, don't they? I suppose that, depending upon how advanced they are, it wouldn't occur to them to simply conquer the living things on the planet.

But the waging of war is always somewhat short-sighted. I do hope your planet survives.