I thought it was a great game because of its refreshing take on humanity's place in the known universe. Ya know all other genres have us as like the dominant power or some shit like that which strikes me as completely unrealistic. In fact if global shit doesnt make us extinct, guys come up with better power generation than making oil in the desert, renewable sources like wind etc.
As in cold fushion I am talking cause thats the kinda power generation we need to be heading for, For space shit man! Anyway point is we could go out and if we try our usual imperial shit we'll probably get humbled by space faring ETs who been at it alot longer than us.
Reason why in my humble opinion they havent made contact is well look at humanity it has many flaws but we are constantly trying to better ourshelves morally and socially and we even got our own UN albeit its seriously flawed. Got laws and other PC crap in regards to developing nations, Past history exempt.
Basically they dont need to rape our planet for meagre resources and we arent capable of getting out there on the inter-galactic scene yet AKA too primitive so probably some big beaucratic dung in place saying earth is a no go zone lulz
I mean the old adage "when an advanced civilization meets a less advanced civilization" blah blah etc is bound to not apply at a certain level. I mean its not completely gone now I aint that naive but its no longer the full on non-guilty approach it used to have meaning we're making progress.
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