They control our powers. They can flick them on and off any time they want, as long as they've got their little communicators. They wear you down, that's how this place works. You think you can take it and then they wear you down with floods and ports and so much insane shit you start to wonder if anything's even real anymore. [And that's a surprisingly frank admission from him, he doesn't really talk about how all the ports and floods get to him. Even though they do.]