"In this review, conducted based on other studies concerning the Changelings, we concluded that there are in fact hypothetically many alternative, more efficient ways the Changeling swarm could acquire love energy as nourishment, achievable now with current methods.
As it stands, analysis of Changeling psychology suggests their thinking processes are, despite notable differences, like our own, and the only reason they continue their ultimately unsustainable pathway of conquest and harvest is not because they are psychologically unable to see the problems, but because they were forbidden from perceiving so, because because of their Queen and her fellow ruling caste, whose policies in the last few centuries had turned the Changeling society into a culture that lives solely for conquest and harvesting love, because under such policies, it would be them who receive maximum profit. As far as it is concerned, the rest of the swarm is merely a means to that end.
At the current state, Changelings cannot have any hope of achieving peaceful co-existence with ponies or any other species, and even if they eventually overrun the entire planet as the 'Manifest Destiny' their culture widely believes dictate, the exhaustion of all other terrestrial sentient species for harvesting would spell extinction for their race. And if they develop a means for sustainable existence, such as theoretically turning all other sentient species into cattle, or branch out into other emotional arcane energies, their civilization would not only pose a threat to our species, but potentially every other race in the known universe who are capable of love.
In short, the future survival of the Changeling Swarm, and this planet from the Changeling Swarm, calls for the elimination of the Queen and the ruling caste, and the systematic dismantlement of the current Changeling culture as they had engineered. With much distaste, it could be concluded that there can be no other alternatives until either we, or Queen Chrysalis, are dead."
--- Dr Genus Phyla, PhD in biology and neuro-psychology, and Dr Scroll Lock, PhD in History and Equinopology. Excerpt of "Thesis on the Changeling Swarm", by G Phyla et al. Published in the Canterlot Sciences Journal, Vol 5 Issue 17, Year 1005.
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