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Just going to link this HALO X WARHAMMER - Disposal Unit X Impend (Spartan Mix) (and hopefully you have the adblockers to use on YouTube, otherwise I apologise) to hopefully give you something nice to listen to as a Warhammer fan. Just for you to have something to relax to, no matter what might...
By the way, seeing as you're getting close to completing PTIS?
I know you want to do things other than Worm after it ... But, question. Have you ever considered a Cherish/Cherie Self Insert from the point she ran away but before she joined The Slaughterhouse 9? Because I'd wonder what you'd do...
So by any chance did you start reading Irregular Webcomic after I referenced that in the original Thread on SB? Or are you just remembering that line.
(If I randomly quote good Schlock Mercenary Lines and link them, is there a chance you read Schlock Mercenary and then as one of The Very Good...
Yes, I get to like it twice!
(Well kinda Thrice for the original snippets, but that only counts about halfish. split the difference and call it getting to like it 2.5 times?)
But yes, this is great and getting to like it again is good.
To point out Empire Building in fiction then people use existing power bases to start off. Agatha from Girl Genius doesn't start her own Circus she joins one, and Mechanisburg was made by her ancestors.
Or let's take Voldemort as an example, he uses Parseltongue to make a power base in...
Or said Empire Building Fics are set on easy mode, like a Commander Fic who can go, "Brutally Efficient, Self-Replicating, Mechanism of War," from the very beginning.
So question, does this fic need to be an Empire Building one? Or can you write it differently? And if it does need to be one...
I have to use Ctrl+F on a work I've just completed to Check Lore for the Sequel work I'm writing. (Book 1 had to be split into Book 1 & Book 2.)
This is far more acceptable than me going, "Did I make said blue skinned character the generic Burnt Orange Eyes and Burnt Orange Hair for said...
You know it says a lot about my Supspension of Disbelief, when super tech, magical fiat powers that give supertech among other things, the general Sci-Fi tech shown of the setting so far, and Vilani Empire Super-Social Engineering ... And it's the Super-Social Engineering that is giving me...
You know, what happens if a Feudal State, stuck to FTL Couriers with Slow FTL gets FTL Comms?
The Vilani Empire ... How likely would a full scale civil war be, if all those Feudal leaders below The Emperor declare they don't actually want to listen to him in real time? They were quite happy...
Have you considered them going with a different name, to be nicer on the kids who don't have to then consider three different StarLeapers? Because StarLeaper One is probably easier on the history test. But imagine if you're in a history exam and you have to write about StarLeaper Two and then...
That requires said Interstellar Empire to be rational actors. With things like, "Starting an Interstellar Empire when you have Jump Two and can't have FTL Comms," is ... Well, that requires vision. But not rationality.