>>6133402>My vote has some habitation boosts, security becasue I fear for the long-term consequences of letting that drop too low for short-term gainsIt's not the point of short term gains anon, it's about finishing the research by NEXT TURN. that's the most important part here. Because once we finish the research, we'll be able to fully focus on getting every single gauge above habitation.
>I am very interested to see if the Hegemony ever escapes the spiral of its founder's self-loathing and entertains truly new philosophical ideasMaybe the Swall and Vetucker will be able to do it - speaking of which, what the hell has our overseer of culture been doing? It's been literal decades. We're already at the final decades of our reign and nothing.
>it may be the sort of thing that would break the Hegemony at its core, though.Is it, truly? It may change the hegemony, for sure, but there's no reason to believe it will break it. For most of it's history the hegemony didn't even consider aliens. Then, for a few centuries, it believe completely in the jaxtian tyranny over aliens. Now we consider two species to be our brothers in arms, almost equal to us in value.
This is not to say they'll continue becoming more xenophilic of course; a supreme could very well come along and decide that we should genocide every single race in the galaxy other than jaxtians, vetuckers and swall. Or maybe at some point we'll even get an alien supreme from those races. Maybe there could even be a civil war that wipes them out entirely for the second time. It could go any way (Of course, narrative choices and railroading by the author excluded)
Change is, ultimately, inevitable. It is the shape of that change that we do not know.
