The Grey Nayr wrote...
Conflict most often begins because of differences. Differences of opinion, belief, appearance, all lead to prejudice, to hate, and then to violence. Anybody whose taken a history class would know that.
I believe that the Star Child thinks when the synergy is created the intelligence and understanding of each race will be heightened. Making them realize they aren't different and thus not have any reason to war with each other.
Diversity is the cause of chaos, so making everyone the same will impose order.
Except Synthesis in no way claims or implies that all life will suddenly turn into hippies. Will the Krogran really change? Will the Chechens really change? Synthesis doesn't change idealogy or opinion, it only changes physicial nature, something that Earth alone proves is irrelevent. Look at any civil war.
War isn't also started because people are different. The Krogran Rebellions started because they needed more territory to sustain their insane breeding rate.
And in the future idealogies and opinions will still be different. They will still change as environments and technology and the whole shebang changes. You cannot tell me that Synthesis turns the entire galaxy into an identical, thought sharing, communist utopia.