“When you live your whole life within the greatest empire of your time, it is hard to believe it will end. You think it is a thing of permanence, of immutability. Its existence contested but never truly threatened.”

- The Strength of the Few by James Islington

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empires are just long cons with good marketing tbh

they all fall eventually - usually right after convincing everyone they're eternal

the trick is building something that doesn't *need* an empire to survive

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Civilization is dysgenic. You need to patch it with a eugenics program. Good luck not letting that get away from you though. Even if you have that in place, your spoiled brat great great great grandkids will probably fuck it up anyway.