[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
How the fuck are we supposed to expect ourselves to do anything but be rolled by an inter-dimensional space-faring nation? It seems we might as well give everything up to the giant bullshit machine that just appeared.
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Three words: extremely limited resources.

(Also, you may not have noticed but Lanist Khaganate is also a interdimensional nation. Plus I'm not even actually here to conquer anyone for at least a few hundred years IC, but more like the role of the European nations in India pre-British Raj)