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The capability of "curtailing" another race from expanding is contingent on having expanded into the galaxy.

• ncmncm 5y ago
  It is contingent on having the physical capacity to have expanded, had they cared to.
  • slothtrop 5y ago
    Not going to curtail jack shit if you haven't left your homeworld. There's a large Universe out there, it's absurd to imagine muscling other races out without a wide-reaching presence, and that demands colonization.
    • ncmncm 5y ago
      So says the reflexive expansionist, too big for its britches, about to be taken down a peg via novas induced on the suns of its homeworlds by unidentified offended parties. It is a dangerous galaxy, out there. Step carefully.
      • slothtrop 5y ago
        That is the dumbest thing I've ever read.