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Welcome, fren, and may Luigi walk with you.

They have to keep the starting civs far apart for balance reasons.

There are other explanations, ofc. Maybe there’s a galactic moratorium on contacting new space faring civilisations.

If you’re willing to discard the conclusion that we’re an early civilisation, then it’s reasonable to think that old civilisations have had plenty of time to decide whether or not to contact us.

There are quite a few different takeaways you could draw from that. My personal favourite is that they want to recreate the “early universe” experience for us because it’s an important process for civilisations to go through.

It would be interesting if the answer to the Fermi paradox was that every advanced lifeform accidentally blows themselves up.