This one's insolence borders somewhat on lèse-majesté, but in fairness, there is a good point there. And a former vampire? Unheard of, and he has traveled far indeed. That is of interest, if for later.

"Imagine, if you will, a planet-killing nightmare. But always, it wears the face that frightens you most. To the Ethran, it would take the face of their feared Demon-Emperor Ca'than, he of four arms and fangs and screams in the night. To a Dalek, creatures bred not to know fear, it would be a cloud of extinction, burning through their carapaces so that they screamed to death."

And he's just getting warmed up, really.

"But let me tell you what would happen to your world, were the Great Vampires to find it. Thorns would rip apart everything of stone and steel and flesh, while smoke smothered the air and created what you know as a nuclear winter. The land would bleed, the clouds themselves would turn against you. The minions of the Yssgaroth would go forth to prey upon the weak, blind and screaming, hunting by smell and warmth and fear on leather wings."

He pauses, taking a long drag of his cigar.

"And then, only then, would the Great Vampires descend to feed, and the entire time, those still alive would envy the dead."