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Originally Posted by Prince Charon
Maybe the 'Greys' are one or two TLs higher than everyone else? Then it's not so much 'allowing it for no apparent reason' as 'can't stop them, have to make plans to steal their tech, and otherwise deal with them without being caught.'
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Even if they are a few TL's ahead, I still cannot see giving them such a one-sided relationship - as they say, "what's in it for us?" If the goal is to get from them technologies that they are unwilling to trade, share, or surrender, then playing nice is probably just going to let them do more damage in return for infinitesimally better chances of stealing their stuff. Even assuming that they are not hostile, in the wake of an inter-species war, why roll those dice with a race giving you every reason not to?