Topic: Petey making new Pa'anuri DaMEs.

Make a sapient DaME and enslave it: immoral and dangerous.

Make a non-sapient DaME and harness it: First, not clear if it can be done, because if it can be done, surely the ancient races would never have made a sapient one? Secondly, still kinda queasy on the morality front. Third, at best a repeat of old mistakes.

Make a sapient DaME and *do not* enslave it. Raises possibility of diplomacy, peace. Recall that Andromeda's core is 35x size of Petey's. Diplomacy sound good under those circumstances. Still plenty risky of course. But certainly a possibility Petey has considered. After all, a DaME can be contained by a network of T.A.D. fields. And the new world forge might be used to create an evacuation fleet should the PD decide the best plan is to find yet another galaxy to move to.

Which raises the whole question of why have a wormgate to (from?) Andromeda, anyway? (Besides "plot", I mean.) But that's another can of wormholes.