"I mean they look like us and talk like us and have all our memories, 'cept they kinda want us dead." It'd be great if he could invite 'em over for tea and talk out their differences and solve everything in a patient and nonviolent manner, but that ain't a luxury any of 'em get to their disposal, now, is it?

"No idea what they are actually," he adds, almost as an afterthought. "Constructs?"

...does it matter, really? The point is they can effect some mighty destructive change, and they've been doin' so with a gusto since they showed up.