Ok, like everything that comes to our world, they come unobtrusive and virgin like. But, our greed and war mongering changes everything. This Vision came to our world a hundred years ago, to warn us of Gah Lak Tus' approach. As it moved from world to world, it felt that it could not do anything itself to stop Gah Lak Tus, but it could spend some time with the species of the world's and record their intelligence and hope and love. When it came to this world, it discovered another trait that, maybe we have more of, or maybe we've just refined through 1000's of years of conflict, but it was that of our instinct for survival. With that instinct, they didn't beat Gah Lak Tus, but they made it flinch. And in doing so it felt fear. Fear that it possibly could be beaten, and fear because maybe this meal wasn't worth the effort. With the threat averted, the Vision felt called to it's original programming, to go warn the next world. But we couldn't leave well enough alone. On a space station, they retrieved one of the modules in Gah Lak Tus' swarm, and are attempting to reverse engineer it. By doing so, they are putting our whole world at risk. And by asking the Vision to help, they are putting he/she at risk. But to them, that's just moving your pawns to achieve the ultimate victory. Besides, that's what AIM does. Nice story by Mike Carey, and nicely drawn by Brandon Peterson. I wasn't sure where they were going to go with this series, now that Gah Lak Tus has retreated. But, it looks like the Vision has found something just as life threatening. Our species.
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