Well when we first came to Cradle, if we stand in front of a Gremlin, who do you think will attack first? We Spiral Knights kill them because that is the only way to survive in Cradle. So, do we kill the Gremlin's in the bazaar? No! why? because they offer us unique upgrades to let us survive in Cradle.

I have seen threads like these before. I am still not amused.

True. We are the invaders and we are shooting everything that moves. But, look on the bright side. Looks like there's something amiss on cradle. I dunno, some type of swarm corruption. There's also some problem with architect betrayals... or something? We might take care of that before we fix the skylark and leave the planet.

The Gremlins were always hostile.

They may not even be native to this place, considering this is, you know, a planet that eats worlds.

I think your overlooking a few key details here, the first of which being the knight's alliance with the strangers, a clearly
peaceful race of beings. And from the look of that Ironclaw factory, the gremlins have had it in for the strangers from
long before our arrival.

As for strip-mining the planet? After steady observation of the inner workings of the clockworks, I have concluded that
the minerals we gather are formed by mist energy (the same that is harvested for your suit) condensing onto an elemental
spark (like you use to purchase mats from brinks). Once this becomes too heavy to remain suspended in the air, it
anchors to a nearby surface, often in a new level of the clockworks. The traits exhibited by the minerals are all defined
by it's seed spark, some of which we have probably not even discovered yet!

While I admit probably not all the right steps were taken, Twiddle has a point. There's something very wrong here.

Also: The spiral order is somewhat disappointed in your attitude and loyalty, and recommend you take a couple of days
off to clear your head. :P

our first intentions where peaceful. We simply searched for an energy source so we can leave. We are still actively seeking that goal.
We have a peaceful relation with peaceful creatures on this planet, The Strangers.
This is not a real planet, as stated above, it is an eater of worlds, actively consuming other masses to build itself bigger, and being actively worked on by the Gremlins. proof? go ahead and look at the top corner of this forum's background. Or on the main-page, its easier to see there, what do you see? a planet being torn apart, and its shards heading in the same direction. probably towards cradle.
We explored at first, Alpha Team was our scouting unit, you can find their messages remarking on the building of the clockworks after every boss. It can be assumed these forward troops met with great resistance, and probably perished at the hands of hostile creatures, under unknown circumstances.
Under any civilization, the termination of this, most likely scouting, if not peaceful, party is as good as a declaration of war. Also notice that though knights carry weapons into the clockworks, the gates do not close and the weapons are not drawn until hostiles attack first. they may run away, only to attack a moment later, and their deaths allow an escape through the gates -- they closed.
Many of the creatures of the clockworks exhibit outright hostility towards knights approaching, so no. We are as evil as any other sentient creature. As soon as the engineers find a way to obtain energy from the core -- the only thing strong enough to power up our "home"-ship, we'd leave. Until then, we continue exploring and, if necessary, fighting.

Huh. I suppose that kind of makes more sense. The Gremlins probably wouldn't be happy if these "aliens" got corrupted by the Swarm too. I guess they'll even resort to attacking us if it means protecting us (and of course, themselves). Though, why they can't communicate and cooperate with us like their outcasts is a mystery.

Actually there are speculations that the Architect is the king of Gremlins, but that opens a whole different can of worms, methinks.

Didn't the Skylark crash because the gremlins (or someone else) attacked it? Are the Spiral Knights taking revenge for the destruction of their ship?

Anyway, by asking this question, just reference to IRL history when Europeans killed a lot of the Native Americans. Sure, most died inadvertently of disease, but a great deal were killed too.

Why do people (and spiral knights) do this to indigenous species? The reasoning is the same, but I don't know the answer.

Do note that the knights made peace with the "strangers", though.

who else thought of gurren lagann when they first read the title, back on topic

@Theskyblade

or they were keeping with the mission, rings a bit of hanlon's razor, the echo logs do say that the cradle was built to protect whatever the core is and it would run with the thought that Tinkinzar is the architect, but then the logs also say the architect has lost it and perverted his creation again keeping with they way the gremlins act now