I just find the whole concept of Dark Forest fundamentally flawed as it requires reality to operate under the rules of someone with a poor understanding of history and how civilizations interact. You need everyone to
>have the means to completely exterminate another civilization but setup to get exterminated in one go by the other civilization
>is incredibly paranoid and will attack anything it sees
>is advanced enough to travel across stars but somehow has to stop off for a bit of conquest/extermination at every contact
>somehow is incapable of just ignoring the existence of another civilization and just going about their merry interstellar way
If ayys passed us by they'd probably think nothing of it, maybe they might send us a message along the lines of "This is God, I'm disappointed" just to fuck with us. Dark Forest ayys have to operate on the same mentality of a person who pulls over their car for every fire ant hill and wasp nest he sees on a drive