[quote=ASTA]
That's fine and all, but I'm just going to say that being an ancient race does not encompass possessing weapons that can destroy entire solar systems. If there was a logical reason behind such technology, I'd concede, but at the moment it looks like senseless wanksauce buffoonery that was engineered to act as a power creep or something.If anything, why would a peace-loving species even have access to such destructive technology?
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Read the history, the access to such destructive technology would kinda be why they are so peace loving: Because they fought each other to annihilation and even after, machines took up the fight and AIs battled until one remained because it had destroyed all trace of any of its enemy. I could just say that it was won through conventional means but from a narrative point of view I think it would be kind of a meh ending for this war.