The typical ploy use by those in authority is to justify war through the scarcity of resources, which is absurd against a galactic scale. Then the second ploy is based on security which is utterly meaningless until turn #300 as the distance is so vast. The third ploy is philosophically derived by et...

If there is no meaning and all the sentient individuals in a galaxy are just biological robots, then that random galaxy is just chaos then the worst serial killers would just roam, not by choice, and bring destruction. Total anarchy by galactic nihilism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

Given an overabundance of life that obviously was created not formed by random events in a galaxy and being sentient and diverse, how could anyone accept nihilism? Wouldn't one have to accept the implication of existentialism? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism We would have to struggle ...

Approach these question from a scientific vantage point. There is zero chance that complex sentient life exists from random events. Mathematically it is impossible that nothing created every bit of matter in a galaxy. It is ludicrous to think life arose randomly as the smallest protein chain of amin...

You can reduce a game like BotE to just waging galactic war, but actually it opens up age old philosophical questions. Humans presume through religion that the Earth is unique. As such, then human know by holy words that directives by spiritual systems convery truth. In this way, good versus evil an...

In bodybuilders, those who take performance enhancing steroids gain muscle mass faster but also get frontal bossing. This is a malformation causing a thickening of the skull and typically something labeled "roid rage" due to hypermasculinity and a preponderance to violence. Now what if the...

Humans based on anatomical differences have expressions like being afraid of so-called friends who backstab you as they lack good peripheral vision. Khaorans, since they have a blind spot due to wide set eyes, fear open treachery by dishonorable enemies who use subterfuge to pretend friendship. They...

Those kinds of things then explain why Khaorans are different. Maybe early onset maturity results in the same phenomena of child soldiers in Africa? You give a lot of military responsibility to a teenager before they have good judgement due to short-circuiting neurons. Maybe this is why the Khaorans...

Now run with that idea on Khaoran soldiers. Maybe by the time human soldiers encounter Khaoran soldiers, they already just to start have four years of experience versus Terran raw recruits? While Terrans have teenagers, no such parallel society exists among Khaorans. They are either children or adul...

Certain anatomical differences may then be avenues to explore for story elements as those no doubt then impact on their society and culture. This is how you "flesh out details" for all the sentient species.

http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki_files/Bilder/Races/Race3.png The eyes are farther apart on a Khaoran so while they may have binocular peripheral vision, they may actually have a blind spot facing forward, and may have to routinely swivel their heads to scan forward and get a complete picture. W...

The Cartare have more sensory organs as well, but they are binocular and the presence of a nose is immediately noticable. Both glow red. Maybe they largely see in the infrared spectrum? It is plausible. Maybe they are colorblind?

http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki_files/Bilder/Races/Race4.png The Rotharians have many more sensory organs than humans and likely would see them as handicapped as probably these confer superior depth perception and peripheral vision and specialization of detecting different wavelengths of the el...

This picture is misleading. http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki_files/Bilder/Races/Race6.png The Vi are plants of some sort. The illustration is of the Da'unor in which a Vi lives within symbiotically. Looking at the graphic, it is plausible that they and elephants have many similarities before bran...

The natural inclinations in mythology is to have elements in which anthropomorphism plays a significant part of the myth. The gods and demigods in those myths act like human beings. Pet owners are misguided and do the same thing. Even some zoologists like someone studying primates or elephants (fami...