"Wait...dad...in this world, the lack of a cosmic predator thinning out worlds causes various civilisations to contact each other when they're outmatched in communication technologies or in a paranoid and untrustworthy state, causing a state of uncontrollable warfare and the loss of trillions of lives across the galaxy. It's a Dark Forest nightmare! Isn't that, like...much worse?"

"...but clean energy, tho."