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>I'm already assuming that diplomacy and maybe even peace treaties or something with the robots or the aliens are literally impossible
And you would be incorrect, because it happened.
>The cyborg workers of Cyberstan declared independence from the SE federation unilaterally, but the SE government actually recognized it tacitly, because they were busy fighting bugs and the public wasn't going to support a war against fellow humans without cause, even with top notch propaganda. They then engineered a false flag 9/11 bombing that was pinned on a "cyborg extremist" to justify war
>the Illuminate came to Earth for peaceful First Contact, it was SE that ambushed their fleet and attacked them because of imaginary WMDs (then executed anyone who protested this attack). But at the end of the Helldivers 1 campaign, the SE gov SIGNED A TREATY WITH THEM "allowing" them to leave the galaxy in return for letting the SE pillage their black hole tech, which they then turned into WMDs, the Illuminate hadn't done that themselves because they weren't geared for war. So yes, they signed a treaty with this propagandized aggressive nonhuman menace that apparently couldn't be reasoned with (and executed everyone who protested that this was contradictory to their past propaganda, just like how the bug propaganda went from them being an abomination that must be wiped to a useful farm animal)
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