It would require much effort, patience... cooperation. The Malnosso would need to be dealt with. There are technological problems to solve. We would have much work to do.

[We. He'll still take Asch back, even after all that's transpired between them, if Asch will just agree with him. They had a common goal, a noble one, if a bloody one. They can have a common goal again.]

These things would take time. Many years, perhaps. More than all the years I spent working towards this on Auldrant. Progress would be slow; but what benefits do we have here, if not that of time?