Message to the LCF

"You act as though you expect us to brutally murder you in your sleep and steal all your lands. You fail to understand the Greater Good. Due to high risk to the populations at the current time due to food production short comings, newly taken races would introduce further strain and will suffer from the same food problems, thus breaking the doctrine of the Greater Good. Worlds would likely be ravaged by over zealous defenders who refuse to accept us and as a result of the damage would produce less food. At the current time, the Collective is suffering from an extensive population problem, as a result our current aim is to find more suitable agricultural worlds and take them without severe damage, hence the current targeting of non-space faring species. If we took over your worlds, it would result in needless deaths by starvation for it's inhabitants, particularly in the case of the Equestrians who would never surrender and allow us to take their worlds. As a result, we would inherit damaged worlds and even if we brainwashed and took over your entire population, the damage would take time to repair. Lands hit by Dark Energy, anti-proton or anti-matter weapons can not be repaired in a traditional sense, it would take vast amounts of energy to 'repair' the land. Lands damaged by standard energy weapons is also difficult to repair. Lands damaged by ballistic weaponry such as that used by the primitive species is much easier to repair and be adapted into suitable agricultural lands to feed the individuals of the Collective. Nations are generally viciously opposed to introduction into the Collective. Answer me this, if I flew my ship above your planet and stated that you would become part of the Collective, would you accept that? Of course not. In response to your second strand of thought, the Ceramus appear to have the necessary resources to occupy the LCF without the adverse effects of starvation. This war is the result of primitive species, and we do think that discussion needs to be had over the usage of unstable and dangerous drive technology. Regardless, given your explanation and... uh... new information regarding your... inconsistant capabilities having led to us classifying you beyond your technological level, we have decided that your actions in destroying the Anti-Proton weapon before it would cause the destruction of many of more of your people considering we have noticed... other information regarding certain wide spread destruction and a anomalous Lakfakalle survival already having been caused as a result. We therefore must concede that your actions were in accordance with the greater good, attempting to do what you could do to make what is best for as many sentients as possible... now and possibly future. Thus, we shall retract the threat of offering Dark Energy weaponry to the Ceramus, however our war with you shall continue as a result of your alliance with the Equestrians who have declared war on us. We apologise for the destruction that will be caused to your species as a result of your war with us and the war you have been having with the Ceramus which has now become merged with our own." Apparently it hadn't become clear to the Triarii that in the LCF it was probably not the best plan to say 'We apologise for killing you'...