What if, when the Eliksni first arrived in our system and saw Humanity was chosen by the Traveler as they were, they decided to align with us. How different would things in Destiny be? Any thoughts?
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Edited by kellygreen45: 8/31/2022 12:16:06 PMNot much. Humans had to recover and stop fighting amongst themselves first. Unfortunately having to unite against a common enemy tends to speed that process. It’s like a line from the TV series “The Expanse”. Amos (a high functioning sociopath) said, “Humans are tribal beings. Good times allow the tribes to get big and large numbers of people to cooperate. But when times get tough the tribes get small again.” Not everyone moves through the world that way, but a lot of us do. Tribes got small after The Collapse and during the Dark Age. It took centuries to build the tribal sizes back up to the point where humans were even willing to consider peaceful coexistence with one another. Never mind non-humans. Has the Eliksni shown up offering peace, odds are we would have made war on them out of greed and fear.