(January 25, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: The counter-balance to "Dark Forest" is Greg Bear's "Forge of God". Xenophobic killer alien civilizations would pose a threat to all other worlds. They would face retribution from the empowered remnants of displaced species.
From our perspective, how would we tell the difference between xenophobic species bent on wiping us out and pre-emptive retribution for our own xenophobic killer history?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'