"War is hell"

Give them lots of it... on a silver platter... that may or may not be shaped like a matter-antimatter annihilation bomb... 

I agree. I love the plot and background but to this day, I have over 2000 hours logged in Gal civ III and I have NEVER ever played any of the campaign games. Not one. The sandbox was and always will be my prime de-stress game from work. I can log in, play a few turns and depending on where the game play is I may or may not go to bed at the correct time and instead find myself playing just a few more turns to get disrupters.......

If ...IF you do make a successor to Gal Civ III I want to be in on the ground floor and agree that build the game and the story will follow. As a player I make my own story by adding some of the hundreds of excellent player made races to my game. The base game ones are always there but I add another 40 to make things 'fun'. 

I would exterminate the Drengin.

1) All Galactic Civ materials seem to suggest the Drengin are inherently/biologically prone to sadistic and xenophobic behavior. They are the product of their "nature" more than "nurture".

2) Drengin will create suffering and exterminate others without hesitation. Imprisonment, disarmament, etc. can fail. The future is unknowable and humanities dominance may one day disappear... what then? Any suffering the Drengin create in the future is partially on the shoulders of humanity if we do not exterminate them.

3) As leader of the human race, I would have the responsibility to both present and future citizens, to leave a galaxy behind that is better for them. Potentially my responsibilities may also apply to "all sentient life" or rather "the maximum amount of sentient life that can be maintained safely". The Drengin pose a threat to humanity OR other sentient life. The suffering of the Drengin population is also something to consider, but ultimately any suffering I cause them is dwarfed by that which they impose on themselves and future selves and their non-Drengin victims.

4) It would be politically expedient as a super power to do so. Other races like the Yor would take notice of the act and likely respect it. It would create fear in many, but I can always point to Drengin history and say "yes, you should be afraid of being exterminated if you behave like this. They crossed a line."

If, on the other hand I had real hard evidence that the Drengin are the product of "nurture" and not inherently sadistic, I'd probably just conquer their remaining worlds, imprison their leaders and begin exterminating Drengin culture and instilling a new set of values into future generations.

I'm also open to genetically engineering some of the "Evil" out of them, but this is really just extermination by other means.

Ultimately, as a super power, humanity needs to stop being naive and take on the mantle of responsibility. If organic sentient life has value and a right to exist, then that value must be calculated in order to be defended. Some must be sacrificed to maintain the whole.

Avoiding the burden of infamy required to lead is something the Altarians will always be great at, maybe when we're done doing all the hard work we can let them have a turn.

Machines?
Someone wrote *THE* word!

They sure are & i'll throw a whole bunch of "new" them in the shapes & styles of the entire XCom-Universe -- from UFOD to TFTD to APOC & very far beyond. Soon, very soon, early-winter-soon too.. in the name of a speculative **XC-AL** mod that already has various GFX assets done.

Cyberdiscs -- Sectopods -- Drones -- Seekers (see below for a quick FG file tease) -- Xarquids (Hint available elsewhere for it!) -- name it! They'll all be there aside from many more less synthetic.

Stay tuned & check out the Modding Forums section for recent development reveals. But as everyone else.. i will just have to wait for my formal introduction to those 65!! Factions until that giga expansion of Retribution has took its rightful place in our favorite Galaxy & minds.
Patience.. I really don't want to step on that big Stardock toe.  

Oh! There can even be a couple of main quest lines that can be only for your specific civilization/faction and as for the custom races it can be allowed to choose one of them as the main quest line that best fit the background lore of the custom faction.

To me it as all the markers of a situation where:

- from the liberation/superpower part on humanity prides/styles it self as savior of the galaxy (with some justification admittedly)

- thinks moral authority from the liberation makes it special, and has now the right to always get its way plus the means to bring this point across if needed

- in result becomes self-righteous, more dominant or even tyrannical

- the "tried to be nice" and "pissed off" parts basically ask to bring humanity on a more suspicious, paranoid path, kinda like "look we've been the good guys soooo much, but noone admires our deeds sufficiently. Some of them aliens even have still the temerity to not like us. I guess we can be nice forever, but everyone will still be out to get us".

- so in the end my idea is that humanity turns evil, but the remaining forces of good in the galaxy, incl. the remaining cool humans unite against Terran oppression and finally restore peace, love and freedom for everyone...

Ok, maybe that's not everyone's cup of tea...

I'm probably one of the few who played the campaigns and absolutely loves the lore. It's also save to say, that without either I wouldn't have become as invested into the series as I am now.

However, I absolutely understand why you'd want to drop the campaigns. They take a lot of resources to make. Yet most players never touch them. So, implementing the lore and story into the sandbox directly (via quests or what have you) would be fine by me. However, it really depends on the implementation.

As for the main question, taking vengeance on the Drengin doesn't really matter to me. Wipe them out, or imprison Drengia behind a Precursor shield and destroy all of the colonies. I don't care. It's the Yor who are the main threat!

i hate to say this but :

where we go if some one make us hate them than we plan for vengeance now imagine that hate is toward that some one tried to destroy you so the vengeance will be brutal this is a part of most humans some tries to destroy you make that someone pay in blood and even make it worse make that someone suffer before destroying it and remove all traces of that someone existence i mean erase it from world and i think that is most brutal vengeance but this is what we human do when we are in rage or full of hate   

On the bright side there were a lot of quality of life stuff added in and the multiplayer was touched on a bit which I'm happy about. My friend and I will be trying a new playthrough to see how it goes. Hopefully this time we will be able to finish our game. On another note mega events should really be added to multiplayer since they are such a big feature.