Trish

“But, at the end of all of that, we'd have had the problem that any actual alien invasion would face, and that the genre novels and entertainments so seldom really consider. Which is what the hell use is an Earth once you have it? If you have the universe, why go to the trouble? An Earth, populated or depopulated, what would one do with it, exactly? Too big a trophy to go on the mantelpiece, and not exactly full of rare resources to us, who can go anywhere. Earth people are very big on their own significance. One longs for those narratives to have the Arcturian Battle Fleet just glide on by, embarrassedly signalling, Sorry humankind, we're going somewhere actually interesting, can't stop!”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker