"Exactly. Probably not what anyone really wants to bring home, but it might not be so bad," she says, then pauses a moment in thought before nodding at her own suggestion. Yes, of course she's right.

"And if that world can't, then the next one will, once the Null are weakened. They're only one race, after all, and they can't survive a war of attrition against a multiverse. Are they magical in any way, the Null? Do you know?" She assumes not, with how everyone describes them, but a construct that has some sort of innate ability fused into it isn't unheard of.