Is it? If the political forces holding a galaxy-state together are stronger than those pulling it apart, why wouldn't one develop? And for those political forces to be strong enough, you just have to imagine the right set of technological and political conditions.
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isn't that what viceroys and junior khanates are for?
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I don't see how it's dumb, if FTL travel is possible. Transportation advances have often led to control over larger swaths of territory. FTL travel could transport troops and economic goods over extraordinary distances at great speeds.
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But the British Empire crumbled at the same time that radio, television, jet planes, and cross-Atlantic communication got going. That stuff empowered the little guys - the empires used to have a virtual monopoly over travel and communication. Now they couldn't control everyone.
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Yeah hard to imagine a huge territorial polity composed of smaller jurisdictions working without instantaneous communication. No wonder the Macedonian, Persian, Roman, Spanish, British and American empires failed … then again there’s there the plutarchy of China.
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Can you unpack that a bit? Just looking at our Pale Blue Dot thru history, global empires were created by a couple few countries that had tech and military advantage. What are you *not* seeing to accept the idea of Scaling Up to create a Galactic Empire? Honest question, this.
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very like the pioneer american west
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