Had I not mentioned the infinity gems in sufficient detail?
Though. Most people wouldn't do anything particularly interesting with your alphabet, or with comparable things.
It. Is. A. Big. Galaxy. And it's been around for a very, very long time. If there is something lying around which grants stupid quantities of power one time in a thousand, several people have gotten stupid quantities of power from that thing and some of them have gone somewhere interesting with it. And some people don't have the creativity or ambition on their own but wind up wielded by people or institutions who do.
I'm not fishing for an apology, just trying to cement the nature of my reasoning so you have a better idea of what my reasoning looks like next time. I do not need to be thought well of as much as I wish to be thought correctly of.
Well, that would be hypocritical of me, but I suppose hypocrites abound.
If you'd had absolute power then you would presumably have just bypassed the need for boats.
Because clearly you would have been swayed by guesses about the opinions of powerful aliens.
Loki can freeze bits of it, but this is presumably not going to be comfortable for anybody else?
She's willing to freeze some food! And make some little icebergs in this river.
"Same old. I'd go into more detail but the minutiae of spellcraft would make anybody else's eyes glaze over."