Charles Darwin’s Survival of the fittest.
This states that in a herd, there’s a slow group and a fast group. And when a predator attacks the fast one survives while the slow one dies. The fast one to run away from the predator survives. The strongest one to defeat a predator wins. The wittiest one to outwit a predator wins. But not knowing what the predator look like and how it attacks would kill the fast/strong/wittiest if they cant identify the attacker.
Survival then would require the ability;
- to anticipate the threat
- to counter attack the effort used by the threat
- to eliminate the occurrence of the threat
- to eliminate or decrease loss during that event.
In this time of great danger, I cant afford to sleep while the enemy plans for my destruction. Homeworld 2