What’s your least favorite trope of this genre? I used to read a lot of these while bored at work and by far the worst one to me is stuff like:
“Humans evolved on a death world with crushing gravity that blablablabla”; “There are thousands of predators there yet humans prey on them!”
my author in Christ if our gravity was notably smaller we would not have an atmosphere and the idea to have a planet with a biosphere but without any predators is stupid on it’s face unless you explain why that is, which you never do!
Honorable mention of aliens that have figured out interstellar space travel but still use their natural weapons to fight, who somehow are seen as scary by their peers.
Time to break the displays I guess.