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“Our condition is the opposite of that: we have no end of choices. That’s why we need to find another spacefaring civilization. Understanding Lacerta is important, the astrophysics of survival is important, but we also need to speak to others who’ve faced the same decisions, and discovered how to live, what to become. We need to understand what it means to inhabit the universe.”
Having evolved on some distant, finite world, they’d inherited the most valuable survival trait of all. Restraint.