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Originally Posted by Leshy
or why races were not mentioned at all until Round 6?
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It's possible to imagine a situation where prior to Round 6 the races lived in relative harmony with each other (like the Federation in Starfleet). There was still conflict but it was either regional, political, or commercial (mining guild vs traders or something). Therefore the planets fighting each other in R1-R6 would have been made up of descendents of all races.
After R6 there was some kind of breakup of this arrangement (perhaps spurred on my unequal treatment or access to technologies) and conflict became increasingly "racial". Yugoslavia style the Xans declare independence and expel all Ziks from their space, etc, etc.
Of course then someone would want to write a prequel about "First Contact" (of the races meeting each other), and well, those things never go well.