>>17040074you know how we have certain sections of land that we call nature preserves? where you can't hunt or build anything there or disturb the wildlife to allow them to exist free of human interaction? I think we live in a galactic nature preserve, where our solar system or cluster of stars are deliberately declared to be off limits by whatever greater galactic government there is. most of the galaxy is controlled by a few massive empires and we're just a pocket of wilderness as a novelty and for conservation efforts and research. out there there are ferengi begrudgingly accepting that they can't jew us out of our helium or whatever because the federation told them not to.
