Originally Posted by
Jack Johnson
Terraspires are the deadliest weapon on the planet. There's a pretty legitimate reason to be frightened of them. Some might have compared giving the Votans territory to appeasing Hitler... whose to say they'll stop with what they're given? After they got some turf in Brazil, they might have wanted all of Brazil. Then all of South America. Then who knows.
As it was, even with post-modern technology and Biomen we were still outmatched by them. The only major advantage we had was home-field, and if we let Votans establish themselves on our planet and create industrial centers or terraform chunks of the planet in order to meet their power and fuel consumption needs, we could have been steamrolled.
I'm all for human-Votan cooperation NOW, but at the start of things, I don't know.