Re: Ihatei in Deneb

The obliteration of Aki still confuses me...the ihatei can't be that stupid,
can they?  How will the colonists there ever be able to trade peacefully with
their neighbors, unless they intend to commit xenocide on all their neighbors?
Besides, such an attack smacks of dishonorable tactics in any case -- the
prey never stood a chance of a fair fight.

The population pressure is there, though.  There are a few worlds in the
Hierate that are very small in surface area and have populations pushing
the hundred billions mark -- I've seen worlds at ninety, ninety-one billion
there.  What is the most crowded world anybody's seen, anyway?

- --Steve