I'm not starting a war?

And I'm not saying that they are all-powerful gods. If anyone has a number of highly-trained, highly-skilled soldiers that were both naturally and genetically altered to war, with proper leadership and loyalty, then they could easily wipe out a superior-numbered force. They were at their peak beforehand; how would someone with less advances be able to make them better, and keep them as Draconian?

And if everyone were so highly advanced, then it would be a simple matter of just making little surveyships/probes and sending them out everywhere, and then taking control of unclaimed resource-rich asteriod belts, planets, and moons, and then quickly building up automated ships that can be used to destroy another enemy fleet without any significant loss.