Star Wars: Dawn of the Imperium
1 part Ongoing MatureFor a thousand years, the United Terran Imperium expanded unopposed, secure in its strength and undisputed within its vast domain. It forged its own hyperspace routes, settled fifty thousand star systems, and imposed order through discipline, law, and force of will. Generation after generation, it advanced without interference. No rival powers emerged. No alien signals were detected. The Imperium believed itself to be the only intelligence in the galaxy-alone, by design or by fate.
That belief shaped its doctrine, its culture, and its identity. Diplomacy was internal. War was a matter of suppression, not defense. Its economy, its military, its entire structure operated on the assumption that humanity stood uncontested.
Elsewhere, the Galactic Republic had endured for over twenty-five thousand years. It had seen countless governments rise and fall, entire species join its ranks or fade into irrelevance. Yet in all that time, it had never encountered a civilization like the United Terran Imperium-a power so large, so advanced, and so insulated that it had grown to full maturity without ever being noticed.
Two galactic orders had developed in isolation.
That separation was about to end.