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[–] Pipoca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Sci Fi trilogy about that. All aliens are omnicidal.

The main rule is "don't ever get spotted by another civilization". If another nearby civilization wants to conquer you, you could stop them by threatening to broadcast both our and their locations more broadly, a kind of mutually assured distruction.