6. The expansion is complete, and they are conservationists with an eye for subtlety. I favor this possibility. Fledgling expansionists cannot know if they are

6. The expansion is complete, and they are conservationists with an eye for subtlety. I favor this possibility. Fledgling expansionists cannot know if they are wards of conservationists who have spent the past billion years developing spying technology and culling weapons. On a game theoretic basis, every sensible fledgling expanionist, even the first one in the universe, should reasonably act as if a living god is judging them.