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Why would they spend resources doing this?

• ffhhj 6y ago
  Maybe morality, madness, a form of art, investment, or just-because-we-can...
• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  To give the next species a chance to grow? While a stretch as a motivation, the Uplift saga by David Brin has this as a core point: ecology and biodiversity is important for all the species in these books; planets are leased and used for a while, and then lain fallow to let them regrow and potentially spawn more sentient beings that could then (be helped to) join the galactic community.
• foxdev 6y ago
  Otherwise you get species popping up later to find the device one of your people left that kills you in the plane of existence you transcended to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%3A_The_Ark_of_Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%3A_The_Ark_of_Truth