A-dono Wrote:No, but it wants to beat the Otherness and claim Earth simply because it considers our world its property, so I would think it would be willing to pull out all the stops to win.

And I say I'd rather be Jack because he isn't immortal. Quite frankly, the idea of immortality has never been appealing to me.

But, A-Dono, the Ally =isn't= willing to go to the mat for Earth. We are not that =important=. That is implicit and explicit in all the novels. (I suspect that has something to do with Paul being a physician.)