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<blockquote data-quote="TBeholder" data-source="post: 6991856" data-attributes="member: 41606"><p>In other words, any generic.</p><p>Because <em>none</em> of these is fitting for conflicts between political entities (or cultures for #5) of different species any more or any less than that of the same species or mixed.</p><p></p><p>If you want it to have roots in basic biology, consider terraforming.</p><p>The initial situation: a planet fits some species or another, or maybe no one. Since it's a natural lottery, there are no serious conflicts - besides, if you escalate it too much, no one will be able to use the resulting wasteland, which is a loss compared to having neighbours with whom you can trade, even if you have reasons to dislike them.</p><p>Why everything is upset: now that the environment can be reliably changed on planetary scale without making the place unfitting for anyone, this stops being a lottery and becomes a resource that cannot be shared arbitrarily. On top of this, many consider terraforming "unfair" in general - mostly those who are quite fine with how the "lottery" goes, of course. Conversely, among the species who could use only very rare sorts of environment and have noticeable population pressure there was much rejoicing at the news. And another implication of terraforming is that the same methods greatly increase level of damage to a planet that can be recovered and thus can be deemed acceptable...</p><p>Will such a situation proceed very far without someone shooting at someone? Unlikely.</p><p></p><p>For possible clashes on the level of psychophysiology, read ConSentiency series by Frank Herbert.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TBeholder, post: 6991856, member: 41606"] In other words, any generic. Because [I]none[/I] of these is fitting for conflicts between political entities (or cultures for #5) of different species any more or any less than that of the same species or mixed. If you want it to have roots in basic biology, consider terraforming. The initial situation: a planet fits some species or another, or maybe no one. Since it's a natural lottery, there are no serious conflicts - besides, if you escalate it too much, no one will be able to use the resulting wasteland, which is a loss compared to having neighbours with whom you can trade, even if you have reasons to dislike them. Why everything is upset: now that the environment can be reliably changed on planetary scale without making the place unfitting for anyone, this stops being a lottery and becomes a resource that cannot be shared arbitrarily. On top of this, many consider terraforming "unfair" in general - mostly those who are quite fine with how the "lottery" goes, of course. Conversely, among the species who could use only very rare sorts of environment and have noticeable population pressure there was much rejoicing at the news. And another implication of terraforming is that the same methods greatly increase level of damage to a planet that can be recovered and thus can be deemed acceptable... Will such a situation proceed very far without someone shooting at someone? Unlikely. For possible clashes on the level of psychophysiology, read ConSentiency series by Frank Herbert. [/QUOTE]
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