See Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu on Wiktionary
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"text": "> The more creativity and ingenuity you give your aliens, the less is\n> available for your humans, generally the protagonists, which means\n> things will end poorly for Our Heroes. [...]\nSort of like a SCIENCE application of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu?",
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