Here is a reason not to join the robotically fixated Federation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23637225
I gave you my vote when you had nothing.Oh you silly people, living life to the full in the sugar-sweet facade that you call 'civilization'. What it is, I wonder, to live with the notion that you are safe, that you are #1. When we come for you, there will be no screams, no ice cream at all, in fact. Only blood. Blood on the deckfloor.
Q. "What is best in life?"
The only answer worth a biscuit: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
Give me your cargo and die. Thanks.
@ jeff and psykokow.
You are both ersatz grinders!
Much appreciated. I voted for you too. Great minds think alike, so I'm told.
Something about fools too...
They go where Angels fear to tread?
Possibly possibly. Or perhaps they tend to jump places or try and get big angry mo hawked ex special forces types in to planes
I've said that phrase as "Fools rush in where Alien fears to tread"
Just think how teeny tiny these great empires are in comparison to the rest of the galaxy. How fragile and faint their small flicker of light is, deep in the vast ocean of darkness. For every good citizen, there is a hundred dread things waiting to tear him limb from limb.
Immortality is the only way to live!