>>1880771Do you realize the scope of the universe?
the vastness of space? the emptiness of eternity?
how rare water is
how rare life is
no alien with any sort of empire beyond hivemind insect aliens would just blow up this goldmine in the most dramatic use of the term that I can.
not only, if there are limited alien races whichever race that digs its culture into us on first contact will have a lasting impact forever.
youre imagining a world destroying laser beam
or death star
we're holding the earth hostage with our own nukes from our own people. you dont think we'll wipe an entire continent away if it meant nuking an invading army ?
picture USA vs vietkong
we coulda nuked them to shit (alien laser beam ) but they had shit we wanted or innocents so we had to march through.
>guns were better >men were better trained>smarterthe vietkong had
>numbers >it was victory of death>disease immunity>home base advantage