Unless you think we can leverage control of space into an effective means of dealing with them. Which we might, given enough asteroid mining and other profitable technologies. And secret orbital weapons platforms (they would have to be secret, though, those are illegal by international law).
And spy satellites, more alien technologies to research and sell, more people to negotiate with who aren't direct rivals, rare space metals, heroes, opportunities. Aliens have AI, too, and having a fleet of AI spaceships would be really cool.
There's nothing wrong with better Normbots, but AI on its own doesn't really interest me. Okay, yay, better computers, AI... Then what? What's the end goal here, Singularity?
DoofOS is practically a hobby, we got a lot of money from it and for some reason we keep trying to make a social network happen. We've got our little hobby project, great. We keep losing our computer rolls, we're falling behind, we don't have the benefit of a clear field anymore.
Dinosaurs don't have that much farther to go. We've got dinos, we will shortly have a park, we're close to dino weapons platforms and adaptive dinos. Then what? It's awesome, it'll be great to have, but the food market is filling up, we've got Sycorax, NMEIZ and Xanatos as food competition.
Entertainment doesn't require much in the way of Learning, it's more a Stewardship thing. Besides, Disney was only worth 2 income and toons are passe. We don't actually have that much of a lead in Entertainment.
Space, though, the Feds haven't made it to space yet. Their space program is up to 169 points, which is a pretty good lead, but they're only hoping to put a man on the moon within a year. We can beat that! And there's so much we can do in space...
As for stabilizing the Federal Government... I really don't see why that's good. They're allies of our maybe-allies, but they've got a direct interest in making us rescind our claim to Doofania. I don't want the Feds to be strong enough to pressure us to
not be the ruler of the Tri-State Area. But I'll happily take their money and contracts and awards if it means we get to go to space.
A final thought: We're spread out, but that's not that bad. We're actual competition to several of the Zaibatsu companies, we've kept Shere Khan on his toes, we're competition to EnCorp, we've got a pretty well-militarized base, we're ahead of the pack when it comes to Cool Science Stuff, we're catching up on Occult and Stewardship. It's messy, it's erratic, but it's extremely Doofy to be an ADHD mad scientist excitedly blundering through all the fields. There's a benefit in that we're forcing other companies to specialize, because if they don't, some crazy pointy-headed fluff-top is going to try to take their field. Them specializing means that there's more open fields for us to wander into.
We're not just a Jack of All Trades, we tend to be second-best in a lot of trades.
