Galactic Civil War

There would probably some kind of war in the stars. A war of stars, if you may.

>>8240296
But how would we ever get to the stars? It's no small trek!

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>>8240234

Biological humans will never expand into the stars, only an AI, converting all available matter to energy and computronium. In the event it encounters another AI out there, they'll likely merge and continue to expand in a peaceful manner, until the entire universe is mopped up for their purposes.

Get your head out of this 20th Century space opera shit.

>Is galactic civil war inevitable?
everything is inevitable
>If humanity expands to other planets, will those plants form a union or will there be planetary war?
there are many factors that will determine that

>>8240311
What about just terraforming other planets in our solar system?

>>8240327
>everything is inevitable

unless it'll never happen again. It's inevitable that there will be a civil war, but a galactic civil war? it's quite possible that there will NEVER be such a war, therefor it might not be inevitable.

Perhaps it just takes too long to travel between stars to make war a thing that actually happens.

>>8240328

Humans can't even muster up the energy to go back to the moon, and you think they'd pull off an engineering project like THAT?

>>8240234
inb4 undergrads/summerfegs claim it will take too long to travel from star to star because they believe their current model of the universe said so

>>8240337
Babies can't even muster up the strength to go lift a 5lb weight, and you think they'd pull off being a body builder, athlete or something like THAT?

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>Galactic Civil War

There was a Cosmic Versailles
We are still on probation
Atlantean karmic debt

Limit is Neanderthal firecracker propulsion
For security reasons
Wait two civilizations

>>8240402
>Wait two civilizations
erm.. can we renegotiate?

it is happening...

Don't get hype, it will just involve throwing planet busting things at each other at sub-light speeds over decades.

>>8241134
I don't think anyone will use RKVs in a civil war there will be something like our current MAD for nukes.

Also, presumably in a civil war you want something from the populace like taxes etc. There's very little reasons to destoy a planent you aren't planning on using.

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>>8241137
Yeah, I was thinking more intense war.

Civil wars would be very interesting if it actually was forced into a more low key planet occupation.

How do you attack? Moving troops/killbots over such a massive distance would cost stupendous amounts of time and effort. The defender on the other hand can just pump out troops and defences non-stop. The attacker would need a massive technological advantage or just be so much larger they actually can move the amount needed to win in a single operation. You could never win an attack with an even enemy aside from outside manipulation (political ect.)

Even if the attack was willing to use limited orbital bombardment it would be a nightmare.

>>8240234
Interesting question.

This tempts me to run some regressions on civil war/separatist conflicts data and see if factors that could conceivably be significant in interplanetary politics are also large indicators of civil war on earth.

>>8240311
>assuming the two AI can even recognize each other as an entity and not merely as a resource to consume or communicate with each other

You assume too much, human.

>>8240234
Check out, "Old Man's War".

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>>8241058