The whole system is so perfectly aligned by the most exquisite exercise in gravitational geometry that every system is balanced out within itself. Which is why we can stand next to billions of tons of super- compressed matter and not even be aware of it. With each new planet I acquire, the forces are realigned but the system remains stable.
Then it's the most brilliant piece of astro-gravitational engineering I've ever seen. The concept is simply staggering... Pointless, but staggering.
I'm gratified that you appreciate it.
The Doctor [scornfully]: Appreciate it? Appreciate it! What, you commit mass destruction and murder on a scale that's almost inconceivable, and you ask me to appreciate it?! Just because you happen to have made a brilliantly-conceived toy out of the mummified remains of planets!
Devil storms, Doctor! It is not a toy!
The Doctor [anguished]: Then what's it for?! Huh? What are you doing? What could possibly be worth all this?
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