[Aloofi]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Have I had my "designer treaties" rant on this thread yet? I'll let you all digest this lot first...

Yeah, we need new treaties, and the default shouldn't be war. I've never understood why first contact with an alien ship always end up in combat.
Imagine that an alien scout just get to our orbit, but since we don't know them and of course we don't have a trade treaty with them yet, our military decides to blow them out of the sky. Next month an alien fleet arrives asking for their scout, and since we killed all their friends at first contact, they decide to drop us a level 5 Plague Bomb.