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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

There's the whole trying to survive while not being the crew of the Promethius. We've got about 6,000 humans, a couple hundred sentient AI 'bots, resource issues trying to maintain our TL, hostile native life, a currently neutral empire of psionic bugs that tried to wipe us out on sight but have been persuaded to prickly coexistence, and now we find out that the whole planet's being terraformed (including us) by an unknown party. One seriously stupid move on our part (the exploration/contact team) and we could get the colony killed or destroy irreplaceable resources with the same effect over a long term.

The swapping planets or bugging out to the belt option was floated (tho not very seriously) given how deep the crap is getting. Various experiments with the mysterious crystals were mooted, and done, but with comments about "yes, I've seen that movie" as precautions were taken. Sadly, so far the mysterious crystals haven't made an overt move.

Okay. I sit corrected.