Backs and Discourage

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Discourage is an antonym for backs in topics: support, put in reverse direction.

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.

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Backs is an antonym for discourage.

The game tries to discourage you from colonizing too fast by having pirates appear to blockade and raid undefended systems, but past a certain point in the tech race you'll have powerful enough weapons that even a puny task force can keep them off your backs.

Source: Video Game / Star Ruler

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