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True as well - assuming you don't run out of planets to expand, and can take out anyone standing in your way. Such 20% PGR -f IS is about the only type of race I can think of that would meet these conditions - it can literally out-colonize anyone, no matter how big the galaxy is.

Not only. I have nasty prediction, that -f race was IT, to offset large distances during colonization and war.

Egsample:
20% growth, 1-3 hab, ISB,IFE, NRSE,NAS,OBRM
cheap vital techs(energy and con and probably prop) - rest expensive. Good mine settings, no less than 11/3/15.
He can drop some hab and one tech for more efficient mines or to modify some LRTs.
But it still is for masochists.