User blog comment:Holokami/Trae'ani/@comment-28694519-20160904113754/@comment-4867780-20160904213637

Well, you did say they are almost as rough as Beerus from BDS ("they'll blow everything you know and love into atoms if you do anything to make them dislike you"), which definitely has "Evil" writen all over it ^ ^;

Lawful Evil characters kill according to the law, Chaotic Evil kill out of impulse, and Neutral Evil character mostly kill out of convenience. They don't have to particularly enjoy it, the alignment is primarily about self-serving callousness, about destroying lives whenever it suits them and they can afford it, with no regards or concerns for the receiving side.

Outright extermination of entire species because their state of developpement is deemed unsatisfying ? That's basically Hitlerism and Final Solution on a trans-species and trans-galatic scale, so while I'm sure the Trae'ani have a well-oiled rationalization to preserve their psychological comfort, from an outside perspective they remain the greatest monsters the universe has ever known.

In a way, they are very much like the Reapers from Mass Effect, and possibly even worse considering extermination is a necessary part of the Reapers' life cycle (that's how new ones are created), while the Trae'ani do it out of... societal preferences o_O;

I understand that internally they are highly civilized treat and each other quite well, probably much better than any other species Minus the Psychena, but the overwhelming ruthlessness of their foreign policy makes them fall right back in the "Evil Empire" category ^ ^;

Not to mention their wipping out entire species on their own without a care while refusing to interfere in ongoing conflicts sounds a bit hypocritical too. All in all, the Trae'ani seem to have a pretty severe case of Moral Myopia

But then again, isn't that ultimately the case of any society, no matter how advanced ? Isn't morality in an amoral universe a fundamentally lost cause from the very start ? When push comes to shove, it does seems this way.