also i see alot of people talking about how the imperium will fall because of it's "fuck you, but i hope you live so i don't get eaten next" mentality, and i wanna try and say at least one thing we all could focus on in general which we all might be able to agree on.
i mentioned in
>>5446680 the idea of making nobles be able to fund colony ships, i see now that people don't like that way of gaining resources for said colonies. but. what about if we at least do begin looking into sowing colonies in the local cluster?
there's alot of unexplored space in our local area, if we were to survey it and generally set up colonies in the area, we could use that as a power base to start a factionalizing ourselves, as these colonies would both be dependent on us, but would also have a kind of national identity seperate from the imperium as well, since they would owe their worlds origins to our existance, and would likely have their protection be provided by us. so that way we would be able to have a sort of literal "home grown" support base, for when the metaphorical shit hits the fan.
we gain local support even if they might not be as strong off the bat, we don't get weird looks by the rest of the imperium in the now for doing so, so it's not suspicious and won't land us in hot water, they only grow as time goes and we focus on other projects, and they are relatively easy to work with, unlike any and all imperium planet.
what do you guys say? should we at least begin setting up some otherwise local colonies? it could also be a great way to begin working with maybe having their own local AI's which were subservient to us so we don't even need to use processing power on helping them along.
it doesn't even need to be our main goal, but it could be a great way for us to do something as a side project at least, something which could ALWAYS help us in the long run.
