Warfare

As the universe always expands, so does our race's exploration and understanding of it. But as our boundaries broaden, warfare changes, not only in practice and scope, but in nature, as the moral value of personal life is naturally diminished.

Warfare exists now not solely between nations. Of course, China dominates that landscape on earth, while weakened but still sustainable former superpowers like the US and the UN focus all their technology into space. As they should, for now, planets, instead of nations, collide. Civilizations will inevitably clash not for land or money, but existence.

As a globally-backed mission embarks into Gamaphoeba, there is cause for concern. What are the odds that their civilization is far more advanced than ours? Gauging probability, over billions of years, in infinitesimal amounts of space,  is daunting, but I'd say we're on the left-side of the curve. It's almost inevitable that, if not this time, then next, we encounter a specy far more formidable than our own, and without any established communication, it'd be dumb luck that prevents us from being destroyed arbitrarily.

Regardless, as enlistment rates into our space fleet skyrockets, there is a clear, positive effect that space exploration has on our moral code. With so much possibility and evidence of other life in the universe, young people are shedding homo-centric bias, tacitly acknowledging our own astral composition, and our cosmic insignificance.

Without this paradigm shift, we would have had no hope to combat likely insurmountable odds on Gamaphoeba and beyond, but as our youth, and our global society as a whole, finally emerges from beneath its comforting blanket of religion, we find ourselves all naturally more inclined to sacrifice our brief, fleeting lives for the sake of our specy so lucky to already exist.