Restraint is unstable exactly where it can be enforced and stable exactly where it cannot, which is the opposite of what a designer would want. Inside the causally connected region, competition is possible, so a lineage that abandons a five percent cap commands roughly twenty times the resources of one that keeps it, and the race structure that punishes unilateral restraint on Earth punishes it there too. Beyond the horizon of return signals, restraint cannot be enforced, but it also cannot be competed away, because isolated realms are not rivals for anything. So the dangerous zone for a reach budget is the near field, not the far one, and that is where the argument for it has to be won.

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  Seven-eighths of these are more than halfway to the edge of the effectable universe, so distant that once we reach them, no signal could ever be sent back. spreading out into these distant galaxies, would thus be a final diaspora, with each galactic group forming its own sovereign realm, soon causally isolated from the others. Such isolation need not imply loneliness. Each group would contain hundreds of billions of stars, but it might mean freedom. They could be established as pieces of a common project, all set in motion with the same constitution, or as independent realms, each choosing its own path. With entire galaxies receding beyond our reach each year, one might think this pus

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