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some primative telescopes used spinning pools of mercury because they didn't have the technology to create a hyperbolic mirror yet.

Maybe a mirror or lens made out of plasma. That takes less tech and energy that manipulating light with gravity, but still is imune to the issue of your optics gettign turned into plasma by the virtue of already being plasma. Any ablation of a plasma optic can be taken care of use gas tanks...

Also in B5 you have various precursors sitting on vast empires and creating no-travel zones. The Vorlon Empire for example is this huge wall of "Explore this direction and die".

I think the human ships from Halo have a better fit for Earth Alliance aesthetics.

If you are using your shipyards for heavy colonization effort, troop transports have all the same requirements as a colony ship, except loosing some capacity to defenses. A carrier designed to function as as an interstellar equivalent to an amphibious assault ship would be your main peace-time...

You can also do things to make that military budget work harder, like using your combat engineers corps to do public works to keep them in good training, or using military forces for disaster relief.

The problem is that the Teep supremicists are bigots, not rational. That sort of self destructive methodology is exactly what you'd expect from Eugenicists. Eugenicists aren't rational and don't understand selective breeding as well as a common farmer let alone having actual scientific...

The biggest problem was the psi core breeding program and social isolation that prevented telepathic genes from proliferating.

I think there was some blurbs about them in one of the spin off games.

He could have done worse, like surrendered and then use that for a surprise attack.