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because any alien empire capable of traveling the vast distances between stars freely to maintain such an empire would be so mind blowingly powerful it would OBLITERATE humanity.
if it was an equal footing youd have alot of conflict from humanity being a bunch of backstabbing pieces of shit for a few space shekels lol
if humanity was stronger it would just destroy the aliens, at no point in human history has an advanced tribe said "man these primitives are cute, lets look after than and preserve their way off life" they just kill them.