[He can’t help but smile, very briefly, when she wonders about the station on the moon. They hadn’t made it to Martian orbit by Quatre’s time, but he knew it was coming in the next few decades, and the lunar base in his own world has been around for longer than he’s been alive. It’s amazing how many different worlds people could come from... but they’re talking about someone’s attempt to eliminate the state of Florida in a missile strike, so that does a good job of removing that expression from his face very quickly.] I think they were trying to. I don’t know if we’ll ever know the full reason. I hope we do, so we can take steps to stop it from happening again, but unless they contact us to tell us, we can only guess.

[And he’s biased from experience to assume there are alternative motives here, given how many different reasons the people in his universe managed to come up with to justify continuing the war or trying to exterminate life on planet Earth.]