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@@ -94,3 +94,60 @@ and upgrade it later.  I don't want to get side-tracked, I want to stay
 mostly on the critical path.
 
 
+Sat Apr 13 13:31:02 PDT 2024
+
+Context...
+
+In this Universe there was a certain insectoid species (a hive species
+like ants or bees) that attained sentience very early on, before any
+other species on any other planet, and they effectively control the whole
+place.  They are mostly uninterested in new species, other than to
+maintain stability and order.
+
+As new species arise and attain sentience and explore the galaxy they are
+incorporated into the insects' system (or destroyed, but that's very
+rare.)
+
+Rules:
+
+1.) Species may only reproduce on their home planets.  This limits
+exponential population growth.  Each species must learn to live within
+planetary limits as proof of their sentience.
+
+2.) War can only be fought by agreement.  Before fighting two (or more)
+species must file agreements with the insects.  These agreements detail
+the theater, forms of combat, parties, win criteria, and stakes for a
+given conflict.  Importantly, the idea is that one cannot force another
+to fight.  You can't use the threat of fighting to force other issues.
+
+3.) Living beings are sacred.  The insects generally speaking want there
+to be more life, not less.
+
+
+(When species members want to travel between the stars they generally
+develop either suspended animation or longevity or both.)
+
+Most interstellar economic activity is in the exchange of "spices"
+(biomolecules that are difficult or impossible to synthesize) and art.
+
+To this end, you explore and find viable planets, seed them with life,
+harvest them until they eventually develop their own sentient species
+which then join the galactic society.
+
+(Maybe?  I'm spitballing here.  I'd like to integrate this game universe
+into a inchoate Sci-Fi universe I'm toying around with, if possible.)
+
+Don't over-think it.  "A complex system that works will be found to have
+evolved from a simple system that worked."  Something like that.
+
+John Gall: Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
+
+> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
+> simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be
+> true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be
+> made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple
+> system.
+
+
+So let's make a simple system that works, eh?
+