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<blockquote data-quote="ArchfiendBobbie" data-source="post: 6988399" data-attributes="member: 6867728"><p>My ideas:</p><p></p><p>1) Energy actually is limited, due entirely to the amount of time and energy it takes to build infrastructure. While the power sources could provide theoretically-limitless energy, they can do that only <em>after</em> they're built. As such, worlds that are ripe for less powerful, but much easier-to-use forms of energy generation tend to be prizes for any race.</p><p></p><p>2) Boredom. I think there's been a few real wars in human history inspired by this. And there's only so long people will be happy with public entertainments.</p><p></p><p>3) First contact gone horribly wrong. It could be a gesture of respect was misinterpreted as a threat (Minbari vs. Humans in Babylon 5), one race discovers something about another that is blasphemous to them or even proves their entire religion is a lie (Covenant vs. Humanity in Halo series), a serious mistranslation, unexpected cross-species infection being mistaken for assassination, or any number of reasons. Maybe even no one knows what happened, just that everyone who was negotiating ended up dead and both races started pointing fingers at each other.</p><p></p><p>4) One race accidentally invaded the territory of another and no one realized it until that race was entrenched. One race is fighting to protect their territory against invaders, the other is fending off what they see as unwarranted attacks.</p><p></p><p>5) One race is about to do something very, very dangerous and another is willing to accept the loss of life that war brings than allow a potentially-worse outcome (Turians vs. Humanity in Mass Effect series).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArchfiendBobbie, post: 6988399, member: 6867728"] My ideas: 1) Energy actually is limited, due entirely to the amount of time and energy it takes to build infrastructure. While the power sources could provide theoretically-limitless energy, they can do that only [I]after[/I] they're built. As such, worlds that are ripe for less powerful, but much easier-to-use forms of energy generation tend to be prizes for any race. 2) Boredom. I think there's been a few real wars in human history inspired by this. And there's only so long people will be happy with public entertainments. 3) First contact gone horribly wrong. It could be a gesture of respect was misinterpreted as a threat (Minbari vs. Humans in Babylon 5), one race discovers something about another that is blasphemous to them or even proves their entire religion is a lie (Covenant vs. Humanity in Halo series), a serious mistranslation, unexpected cross-species infection being mistaken for assassination, or any number of reasons. Maybe even no one knows what happened, just that everyone who was negotiating ended up dead and both races started pointing fingers at each other. 4) One race accidentally invaded the territory of another and no one realized it until that race was entrenched. One race is fighting to protect their territory against invaders, the other is fending off what they see as unwarranted attacks. 5) One race is about to do something very, very dangerous and another is willing to accept the loss of life that war brings than allow a potentially-worse outcome (Turians vs. Humanity in Mass Effect series). [/QUOTE]
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