Angleton cobre isso muito bem em The Jennifer Morgue :
No.” Angleton’s expression is implacable. “Water absorbs the energy of a nuclear explosion far more effectively than air. You get a powerful pressure wave, but no significant heat or radiation damage: the shock wave is great for crushing submarines, but much less effective against undersea organisms at ambient pressure. We could hurt them, but nothing like as badly as they could hurt us. And as for the rest of it — he gestures at the screen ” — they could have wiped us out before we discovered them, if they were so inclined. They have access to technologies and tools we can barely begin to imagine.
They are the Deep Ones, BLUE HADES, a branch of an ancient and powerful alien civilization. Some of us suspect the threat of the super-tsunami is a distraction. It’s like an infantryman pointing his bayonet-tipped assault rifle at a headhunter, who sees only a blade on a stick. Don’t even think about threatening them, we exist because they bear us no innate ill will, but we have at least the power to change that much if we act rashly.”
Em The Fuller Memorandum , Bob deixa claro que o pensamento atual é que não temos nada que eles querem.
But our neighbors, the Deep Ones and the Chthonians, are adapted for wildly different biospheres. There is no colonial overlap to bring us to the point of conflict — which is a very good thing, because the result would be a very rapid Game Over: Humans Lose.
Além disso
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Está bem claro que algo desagradável (CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN) está chegando e que tem o potencial de afetar todos a vida na Terra. Como a cabeça de praia quase certamente estará em terra (e não no oceano), basicamente seremos bucha de canhão.
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Matar todos os humanos pode impedir que o CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN ocorra, mas um sacrifício desse tamanho pode realmente acabar atraindo algo muito pior.
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A humanidade pode não ser a vizinha ideal , mas é certamente preferível ter nós à sua porta, em vez das alternativas.
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O AZUL HADES tem medo do DEEP SEVEN (criaturas que vivem dentro da crosta da Terra). Preservar-nos significa que há um árbitro potencial neutro em disputas futuras.
Charles Stross confirmou isso em um tweet :
[...] the commenters pretty much nailed it. (There’ll be more on this in books 9 or 10, but that’s a way down the line.)[...]