"Its how we live, how we experience the universe. When we find a planet where the inhabitants are...not kind, we observe and then send the spiders in to learn. The spiders are from another planet we've found; they love to problem solve and welcomed us and the challenges we gave them. Once we learn all we can about the species, how to maintain the host bodies, how the culture operates, we start the colonization. It's very subtle, most species don't know were there, some don't care, but some do." I took a breath, sighed. "The humans were different. Like nothing we'd experienced before."