We should ally with the Garleans

[hagare]

After having your supposedly unbeatable airship fleet ripped apart out of nowhere by more dragons than anybody has seen since, you'd consider the nuclear option, too. It's reasonable only in the context of a panic response.

it was still an official decision made and accepted by the empire.

[Yeldir]

it was still an official decision made and accepted by the empire.

Like most men, I've personally considered and rejected a robust variety of terrible acts. Who am I to judge for mere consideration?

Assuming the story backstory was drawn up with such fine detail, I expect the Dalamud-meteor project was a measured response to the possibility that Eorzea was harboring Allagan technology equal to or superior to the total might of the Empire itself, and was summarily rejected when it became apparent the city-states themselves had no such technology.

But it makes you wonder what Midgardsormr's vested interest in Silvertear falls was, beyond the religious hogwash associated with the event - having actually talked with the dragon, he does not appear particularly devout, with regards to the twelve; I'd call him aloof, actually. What was his motivation for stopping imperial incursion with his life? Was he neurolinked?

[hagare]

ey snip

and like most men, you don't have the power to do anything about it.
unless of course you're the highest ranking official in an empire?

the Dalamud-meteor project measured and executed.

"As the project progressed, it aimed specifically to guide the descent of the lesser moon, Dalamud, onto Eorzea in order to annihilate the realm's out-of-control primal threat and resistance to Imperial rule in one motion.[1] The realization of this plan in 1572 under the combined might of the VIIth and XIVth Imperial Legions directly led to the seventh Calamity."

and as for the bolded part: KILL 'EM ALL!

Not all of the beastmen are bad though.

and that.
nice judgement, killing of an entire race simply by looking at their worst denominator.
If we use the empire's way of thinking and logic, we are justified in destroying the empire and killing every men, women and child until nothing is left of them.