I built a Sentry Array to keep tabs on the outside and now my single Envoy in my Inward Perfectionist empire is going to be spending the next several years removing herself from the xeno call lists.

The other reason is that the central focus of the story (perhaps I should have left in the 200 word summary) was how a seemingly insignificant event that occurs during the EU4 timeframe, i.e. the British landing in Quiberon (compared to say, the fall of Constantinople, discovery of the new world, reformation, enlightenment, Waterloo, etc) could have drastic differences on Europe as we know it today.