But just because something does not have an ending doesn't mean it doesn't have a conclusion. - Iain Banks

She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. “Is this as important as I think it is?”
“Almost certainly much more so.”
“Oh,” she said, “fuck.”

'Destroying the whole universe' – an always tempting scenario when you realise in SF you can do anything – just seems too easy.

What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?