Interview with Rei - Part 1 of 10

As Steve Fisch and I get the scripts ready to sell Rome's Revolution as a streaming series, he asked me for a lot of background information that I did not have. So I took some time out to interview Rome and Rei. Here is Rei's interview, part 1 of 10.
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Interview with Rei on the day of his retirement
(Non-human) Interviewer: Coordinator Bierak, thank you so much for agreeing to sit down with us today.
Rei: That’s Coordinator Emeritus but I’d rather you call me Rei.
Interviewer: Yes, sir. Rei. Thank you again for having us. We are making this recording to go into the archives at the Library. The Library that your wife Rome built from nothing. Is that correct?
Rei: Yes, it was her idea and she saw it through. She wanted to accumulate all the knowledge of humanity before we spread to the stars.
Interviewer: It certainly has grown from that. The University of Deucado is now the repository for all human knowledge and other species. The Galactic Union archives are almost a third of the campus.
(Rei smiles)
Rei: Yes, I am very proud of Rome and what she has accomplished but now it is up to others to carry on with her work.
Interviewer: What is she doing now, now that she has retired?
Rei: Rome is very happy, she paints, she visits our children, our grandchildren and her great-grandchildren. Now that I’m not tied down by Union business all the time, we’re going to do a bit of traveling.
Interviewer: Does that include Earth? I understand you haven’t been there in a long time.
Rei: Probably. Yeah, I haven’t been back there in almost 20 years. It probably is time to go back for a visit.
Interviewer: It is hard to believe that you were born there over 1400 years ago. A lot has changed.
Rei: You have no idea.
Interviewer: What was life like back then? I do not think we can have any real perception, even with the historical records.
(Rei looks out the window)
Rei: Things were a real mess. Earth, every planet, resembles a living organism. Back when I was growing up, it was called Gaia or really, the Gaia hypothesis.
Interviewer: What is that?
Rei: It means that while it may not be intelligent, every planet is alive in the sense that it has its own geophysiology, like the eco-system but more, and like every organism, it tries to maintain homeostasis. And humans, were a disease that had overrun the planet and Gaia was fighting back. The planet was becoming unlivable, at least for mankind, as Gaia tried to rid herself of this infection.
Interviewer: This is fascinating. How was the Earth fighting back?
Rei: Greenhouse gasses were causing temperatures to rise, the polar ice caps had melted. The entire eco-system was breaking down. We had almost continuous continent-sized storms battering our cities. New organic diseases were springing up everywhere. And self-inflicted diseases, like nano-cancer were becoming rampant.
Interviewer: If I may interrupt, what is nano-cancer?

Tomorrow, part 2