[quote=WilsonTurner]
Oh?So what would you do, if one of your ships crashed by accident on a foreign colony? You get surrounded by an army, with fighters and gunships flying overhead? Would you really think that the people mean to welcome you and establish a good relationship?Whatever duck. You're just digging your own hole, making nations hate you. Soon enough, all those enemies you're making will band together, and the ones that you have probably won't stick around with the humans talking, and the New Condia shipwrecked still talking.
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Attempt peaceful contact with them instead of ignoring all attempts at contact and warning shots. Plus New Condia is wary of aliens. After you know a alien invasion and 1000s of civilian death.

And to Keyguy they did not retreat because the Dreadnought was threatened, they retreated because they were outnumbered and outgunned.