Nom

General
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“Consider, gentle reader, that even as the flesh of an Emperor, or of any man, is constituted of what he eats, so then is an Empire, in bones and sinew, constituted of what it eats.

“Therefore, to maintain the health, and to avoid the manifestations of ill-nutrition, unseemly bloat, or the effects of poisons, great attention must be paid to the Imperial diet, and care taken to seek out the finest food both rich and healthy, and to eschew that which is neither.

“As below, so above.”

- Against the Bellipotency, pamphlet, pub. 4020

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/24/nom
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Are there any circumstances where the Empire of the Star would involuntarily annexe a place or a people? Or would they just burn it instead, if walking away and leaving it alone was inadvisable?

And what of the other Presidium powers?

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Essentially, no. For one, they’ve run the numbers and if they ever start going down the involuntary annexation route there’s a very high likelihood of interstellar civilization collapsing into approximately All Of The Wars All At Once.

For another, when they say “Freest of the Free” and “Society of Unanimous Consent” they mean it.

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That’s true, but it applies strictly only to setting out with the intent to conquer some random polity. Ending up with one after they pick a fight with you, on the other hand, is not the same…

More details at Imperialism Wow!