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Very nice, my only question being that since they broke off from an empire why they would form their own? It seems slightly unusual to trade one empire for the next for a people as spirited as you've portrayed yours
Actually most civilizations rarely learn from history and tend to repeat it. Take the Puritans, they left (thrown out of) England in search of religious freedom and then established a near theoracy when they got to America. Or the 13 original colonies leaving the British Empire and then going on to forge their own North American empire. I dare say, most civilizations repeat the "mistakes" that may have spurred their current incarnation out of shear ignorance of a "better" way.
Telintar was a Kingdom before the Ceralians came to us. It was basically like Medieval Europe trying to take on space Nazis when they came, as we were still in the age of swords and spears, and they showed up with FTL technology and overwhelmed us.
So, instead of attempting to fight, we agreed to become a part of their Empire in exchange for maintaining our Royal Family so they could be hereditary Governors of the planet. About 300 years passed unti- nope, spoilers.
But we pretty much rebelled and took them over, declaring them in turn OUR subjects and decimated their population and barred them entry from the Armed Forces, taking our revenge in this way. We also forced upon them our Religion, Culture, and Language as they did us.
This would be better if it wasn't for the fact that the first example has nothing to do with it. They left England because they wanted a more strict, conservative near-theocracy of the kind that England was not, and would never be allowed to become because the vast majority didn't want to live like Puritans. So they started a colony for their near-theocracy in Americas. Because that was the goal all along. Not at all a case of not learning from the past; they knew exactly what they were doing, and simply went to the best place to make it happen.
The second is debatable - I wouldn't call those very near analogous, myself.
My point being that they left one system of religious oppression to impose their own, all the while claiming religious persecution, which they did, simply to persucute themselves. They didnt learn the lesson, being religious tolerance and how to live in a pluralistic society. So with respect to why some civilizations do or recreate the same BS they leave behind, it actually is a good example.
Not withstanding the technical definition of empire, the USA is one for all intents and purposes. We did conquer a whole mess of Native American nations and ripped half of Mexico from it, not to mention Lincoln destroyed the concept of federalism. So it too showcases a people leaving one system, empire, only to recreate it in a new form.
They weren't oppressed to begin with, so there was no lesson for them to learn; they just wanted to be religious oppressors and weren't allowed to do so, so went somewhere else. The "claims of religious persecution" are revisionist history from well after the fact.
As for empire: still debatable but I'm not interesting in doing so. :P You do make some good points, though.
Ah see that makes more sense, they wrested control of the empire from the previous rulers, for some reason it seemed like they had declared independence from the empire with their own
Yeah, more like a hostile takeover.
Almost like how a good number of Chinese dynasties came into power
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Like a mixture of that plus what the Romans did. They had more Auxiliaries and Mercenaries than anything when the West fell.
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So, the Local Cluster is a place for those new to NSFT to go?
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