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In Animorphs the Ellimists's race played something akin to a 4x Strategy Game as their main form of entertainment. The idea was for each player to be given a randomly generated species on separate planets, and based on that species' biological traits the player was supposed to make the smallest possible change to them and then simulate the result of their evolution and societal development until one or the other became the dominant power. For example, Ellimist plays a game against one of his friends where the change the friend makes to a species of horrible rat-people is a very small increase in their reproductive rate, which prompts the species to develop space travel in record time because they consume all their planets resources and they need to fly across space and consume Ellimist's species to survive. People in his government used recordings of these games to test the bandwidth on an interstellar communication device. Aliens picked up these transmissions and thought they were records of Ellimist's species playing god with innocent sentient and slaughtering them by the planet-full for their own amusement, and sent an armada to destroy their entire world and race for the good of the galaxy. Ellimist (which was his screen-name) was the only survivor. Later Ellimist encountered an evil being named Crayak, who after reading his mind found memories of those games and found the idea so amusing that he dedicated his existence to "beating," the Ellimist at this game by actually manipulating real aliens and forcing Ellimist to stop him, with again the goal being the most minimal involvement possible. One example was an alien species that would become widely known as "Howlers," where the change Crayak made was to have seem violence and murder as harmless play, turning them into the galaxy's most feared genocidal warrior race.
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