[quote]I'm going to end this with a brief discussion about "good" and "evil". They are not concrete standpoints: they depend on who's talking. The Traveler is good because it brought us a Golden Age, nurture our growth, and helped us fight the Darkness. The Darkness is evil because it brought the Hive and tried to exterminate us. To the Hive, the Traveler is the evil one, and the Darkness is the good one. Additionally, let's talk about their purposes. The Traveler wants a utopia universe with no wars or dictators; a universe built on peace and prosperity. The Darkness wants a universe built on ruthlessness. In the Darkness's universe, something is only worthy of existence if it cannot be defeated. If you can be defeated, you should not exist.[/quote] This is the important bit. This is where we see the division between those who subscribe to theories of absolute good and evil and those who understand that without perspective, morality is meaningless. Effectively we cannot EVER claim that an alien is "evil" because we can never share their perspective on life. Their culture and perspective are LITERALLY alien to us. An alien may be our enemy. It may be that an alien race has to be taken on in war because their actions will lead to our destruction otherwise - but this does not make them "evil". Consider Ender's Buggers. They were simply trying to communicate with us, they thought that we would understand. They were just saying hello when they carved through whole colony populations like butchers... surprisingly though, not evil.