User blog comment:Supahbadmarine/Canon Policy Discussion 2:Empire and Xenos/@comment-4851119-20131108203019/@comment-8395098-20131109010400

See my reasoning in the post immediately after on of Supah's main points down below. 3/4ths of the time for a extra galactic treat will be well more technolically advanced than us and have more force to bear. The other 4th is divided tween the author making some new 'nid-like' race or they'll be insignificant and the author won't be happy.

And let me restate a FTL that can reach this galaxy from the nearest galaxy in a reasonable amount of time (before your greatgreat grandchildren die) they could cross our galaxy 5 times before a force could react to a attack