[...Visas hadn't even considered that there might be a planet so primitive that it had no contact with the wider galaxy. The Galactic Republic has existed for tens of thousands of years; it's hard for her to conceive of a place that is so truly isolated that their only option is to rebuild the world that they themselves destroyed rather than fleeing into the stars.]

...They must have predicted the problem with your life-eating machines.

It is brave, to take such a desperate chance, when there was so little chance of success.