When you consider that each of those specks is a place, every bit as real as the room you're sitting in and the world through your window, it's enough to make you simultaneously humble before the sheer scale of the Universe and honoured that we are part of a race sufficiently advanced to reach out and touch it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
