No not every alien race may not be hostile, books of sorrows also points this out And I do agree with you since I also don't fully agree with FWC, I have no love for this machine they seem to be obsessed with, each life wasted on that thing is one less gun in the fight when the real fighting begins, but at least FWC will fight, as well as NM DO plan seems too big of a risk since they have too little information, seems more like suicide to me, we have better chances standing our ground, recent events in ttk are evidence for this, we just need more Intel in what exactly "the darkness" is and what did "it" use against us to bring us to the brink And one last point I feel I have to make, DO plan is unoriginal, the colony ships wrecked out in the reef had the same idea, they never made it out, something kept them in the solar system, is that something still there on the edges of our system? Ignoring any long range jump ships in favor of larger colony ships? Too many risks, not enough supporting data