Another star floating by in the galaxy was old, old news for them.
The Tikis are basically immortal unles some outside force kills one of them. They don't age like you and I.
You'd think that gods wearing spacesuits of basically wood flying in a wooden spaceship would be afraid of open flames, but ironized bamboo doesn't burn so easily.
The Tikis fell in love with fire after watching humans playing with it in their scanners. Fire was rarer than Earth unicorns on their water-planet home world. They've adopted tiki torches match, stick, and brazier.
