He pretended to ignore the exchange, before shaking his head at her offer. "I was being funny. And hardly. I am NOT going vengeful god. I will be quietly in the background, simply observing. I will not come out into the open about who I am, unless the so called 'diplomat' is taking the boring brute force method. These people are mine, and I am not going to endanger them through my actions, but I will not let them be harmed through my inaction. I will take a moderate, measured approach, despite what I said earlier. Five millennia of watching my children vanish around me as we desperately tried to hack our way home taught me to maximize gains while minimizing risks. Scary, I know, but I can learn."