The floor had been handed to the representative from Vulcan. I felt a sense of foreboding as I listened to his closing comments. "... If the Pav are not going to respect our boundaries, and assuming we don’t intend to go to war with them, the next best step would be to claim all habitable planets in the area. We have surveys from the Bobs, yes? Let us launch colony vessels, sufficient to tie up all real estate. Leave them no reason to launch in the first place."