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Bit by bit did the leader of Hungary change the govt and ended democracy.

Why not the Draka?

I understand that this is a summary, but calling 40k's Wrap travel "safe" or "precise" is blatantly untrue. Wrap travel relies on your navigator being able to see the light of the Emperor, a force field around your ship that no one has understood in over 10 millennia not failing, and time staying stable enough that you don't spend subjective centuries to travel a couple of light years. Even then, you might emerge in the wrong system, or decades earlier or later than you departed.

Interesting video however, you should've included the mouse utopia because I firmly believe that it is interrelated with the life cycle of all empires and great civilizations. The mouse utopia experiment has shown us that predator filled environments lead to higher birthrates in mice. Predator free environments lead to lower and eventually zero birth rates in mice. I believe that this same phenomenon applies to human populations. We have just about conquered famine, war, disease and death. What I mean by conquering death is that through medical advances we have extended the human life span. Increase the survivability of both mother and child during birth. We have eradicated polio and smallpox to the point that inoculation is no longer required. I think fictional examples of what I'm talking about are Vulcans of the Star Trek universe and the isolationist Kryptonians from Man of Steel. I'm talking about two different highly advanced civilizations, one that has eliminated all of the banes of their existence and one who created a paradise forcing them to use artificial methods for birthing children. What I'm trying to say is that a harsh environment is what lead to higher birth rates which will lead to expansionism.

this channel deserves at least 10k subs. For the record I'm subscibing while he has under 1k subs.

I always found it funny how Palpatine’s Empire, which he designed to be eternal, lasted only 24 years, while Leto II’s Empire, which he designed to collapse, lasted well over 3,500 years.

I swear if this video essay doesn't mention the Goldenbaum empire I'll riot. Kircheis did not die for this, Reinhardt Von Lohengramm would never stand for this.

The claim that a feudal system like Dune’s is more oppressive than a totalitarian state like the Galactic Empire of Star Wars is indefensible. Feudalism encourages the decentralization of authority and the maintenance of local traditions and communities. Totalitarianism imposes itself into the daily life of the citizenry to ensure the state, as a centralized institution, is in complete control. A feudal peasant may be utterly subservient to his liege lord, but that is a personal relationship mediated by mutual obligations. The citizen of a totalitarian state, by contrast, is effectively the property of a vast institution which has no real understanding of or care for their individual well being.

Interestingly enough, Hitler said that he did not want total victory in the east. He preferred if there were Russian partisans fighting, for years and years. That way, the German people would be kept strong.

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That's an interesting video to do gotta reward by watching

Dune is a shitty and boring novel/story. Didnt find it interesting at all

Wait, you guys actually think about the roman empire? Fuck are they all you learned in history? Wth?

Gold.

Keep it up.

This channel is awesome.

Why don't you subscribe?

"How often do you think about the roman empire?" I do everything I can not to, so as to not cringe myself to death.

My all-time favorite villains in fiction. Great video!

Apologies for the audio, I am still a bit under the weather. What fictional characters do you think embody fear and dread the best?

Great video mate!! Really enjoyed it and will subscribe for future videos but I have to dislike it mate. No mention of the Spanish empire at 0:24? Wow, sorry but Im not falling into this anglo-saxon propaganda

Two things can and have broken the Cycle of Empire in real life. First: Modern Monetary Theory. The entire world runs off it now. If you don't know what it is or how it works, you're in for a bad time because ALL of your financial assumptions are wrong. (TLDR: A sovereign state has its own fiat currency and has ALL its debts in that currency, ensure that it cannot go broke because it can always pay its debts no matter now large they are, and it compels the use of that currency via only accepting tax payments in that currency on pain of imprisonment or worse.) Second: Sword of Damocles Technology. The entire world is under the threat of annhiliation by each of the would-be hegemons via nuclear weapons, and if the party in charge of those weapons perceives an imminent threat to its power those nukes fly because it is better for all to die than to lose power. (The US has this power, Russia and China was until recently believed to have it but recent events showed that they do not, and otherwise only Israel does- and Israel has this as explicit state policy "The Samson Option".) You will never Margin Call the guy with all the nukes, so economic warfare is out. You will never militarily challenge the guy with all the nukes, so military warfare is out. That leaves cultural subversion, and any competent empire that reaches this point _will be better at that game than its would-be usurpers._ (Yes, this means your imperial power will freely mix _1984_ and _Animal Farm_ with _Brave New World_ and _Network._ Especially _Network.)_ Thus you see that a bizarre thing has occurred in the Western Empire where the elites hate their own plebs so much that they are importing barbarians to displace and replace them, on the (not invalid) presumption that they'll get away with it while Israel feels free to openly conquer its neighbors and taunt them while doing it. The former is doing the Tyrant's Plan right out of Aristole's _Politics_ and the latter is flat-out Biblical in its hubris- but a well-founded one. The end result? All of the usual cyclical forces are locked out and cannot act to end these empires, which means that the heroes who arise to do so are also locked out and automatically fail if they try. This is a rachet mechanism, and so it only goes one way; until you deal with the banks and the nukes (in that order) there is no overthrowing or outlasting the empire. That's real life. Any contemporary fiction writer making an empire had better consider that fantastic empires can easily achieve a similar state, because those who put the pieces on the board but fail to put them together _when those pieces would have been put together_ get wrecked by sharp-eyed observers that see it. (This is far more common in gaming than fiction, but Cinema Sins and its spawn exist for a reason.) One crystal clear example is any empire where the undead rule and are not an undead type with a ravenous thirst for the living, or are easily controlled in reproduction, such as a Lich or Mummy-run empire where fiat banking is just a thing they can do without digitization or a command economy where service secures access to necessities. You're not overthrowing that without the most obvious divine intervention. So this is, in fact, a failure of imagination based on ignorance of how things works. (MMT was globalized by 1913, nukes after 1945; it's been that long already.) It is long overdue for many to reconsider that their premises are invalid due to this very issue.

This was a fun video. You touched on it mentioning how 40k was inspired by Dune, but in addition to that, it was inspired by Foundation as well, and Star Wars was inspired by Dune, and Dune was inspired by Foundation. And then of course, Asimov was inspired to write Foundation after reading a book called The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. It all circles back.

18:38 Yeah, senate was hollow mockery... roughly for 20 000 years.😅 Galactic Empire's senate represented citizens more than Old Republic's, New Republic's & Galactic Alliance's combined. To understand what did all senates beside empire's one: most of the times when some powerful subject tried to enslave, eat (straight forward eat, use citizens as food) or subjugate other less powerful subject and less powerful went to the senate for help, senate deployed jedi & other forces to help the agressor, the strong one, to destroy the weak and after that put all the blame on a weak one calling it agressor. Empire's senate on the other hand didn't do this, because it had not enough authority to do such things.

Asimov's robots did not rise up, they took themselves out of human society for the most part, guided and helped humanity, also the God Emperor Leto 2 engineered his own demise over his 3000+ year reign.

Just a note that the robots in Asimov's world did not bypass their 3 laws to rise up. The war was between humans only. Robots were watching over and helping humanity for a better future.

21:38 An historical inaccuracy. It was not the storm troopers in interwar Germany that carried out oppression and caused fear into the population. That was Hitler’s Brown Shirts and later the SS and Gestapo. The storm troopers were a strike force to find and break through weaker lines in an enemy’s defenses and get deep behind enemy lines.

The Imperium has not, will not and cannot fall whilst HE still sits upon the Golden Throne upon Terra. Ave Imperator, Gloria en excelsis Terra!

seeing Maturation part, it seems Star Wars Empire and Foundation Empire is a nice place to live.

muslim : jihad is self improvement, westerner: f@cking war!

21:36 Nazi regime. Fashism is different ideology.

The Machine Empire from the underrated vintage anime, Galaxy Express 999. They were involved in the countless destruction of multiple species throughout the galaxy, using their bodies as fuel for their robotic bodies, nothing could stop the machines. Or so it seemed, their decline was officially set in motion, when they overestimated themselves and downplayed the will and fighting spirit of humanity and the various species in the universe.

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40k empire exists in a strange point between expansion, peak and decline. It constantly loses and gains new worlds, creates new armies and has older armies wiped out. As for the control it has over worlds it consists of - fortress worlds, forge worlds, a lot of hive worlds are under quite oppressive control, but agri worlds, feudal worlds and feudal ones have imperial authority deep in their background. At the same time even the oppressive control isn't enough to root out Chaos and/or Genestealer influences or even organise crime. Some worlds try to remove "problematic" parts of their populace by inducting them into units of Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum, that get send out into wider galaxy, only to find out that empire authorities need exactly that kind of fighters so planetary rulers almost need to keep their worlds in the same circumstances, that produce "troublemakers" among peoples they govern over.

Naw the reason why the imperium is still around is plot armor. No imperium, no space marine models to sell.

It was not God Emperor Leto's death, but his millennia of life which was his ultimate sacrifice for humanity.

4:09 tbf I'd argue that rome does not follow this rule. Remus and Romulus were theives and murderers who founded an unnoteable city. This is even within their own legendarium.

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I would only used the Expanded Universe canon Galactic Empire as an example. The Disney Star Wars Galactic Empire sucks and isn't canon to me.

One could argue that the Imperium of Man has been in a slow decline ever since the Horus Heresy. Another way to look at it, it matured, but in a completely different way than intended by the Emperor, and then began to decline.

You're the guy that does mtg lore on another channel right? Recognize your voice. Subed.

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It should be noted that Palpatine did not in fact coup the Republic. He was legally voted into his autocratic position entirely legally. Along with all of his various increases in power throughout the prequels. Being universally granted to him both democratically and within the legal framework of the Republic. That's what makes him eo impressive he didn't take his power through force. He manipulated tge entire galactic legal system into creating a dictatorship and placing him on top.

I randomly foubd this video after several viewings of the Dreadnaught vs Helldrake scene from Space Marine 2🤣 Glad i did. Great video. My favorite empire is the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Respect from Nigeria

Victory. That is what the preachers cry from the spires of their temples. What commanders tell the soldiers in their service. The Indomitus Crusade meets with triumph after triumph. Day by day, we tear Imperium Nihilus from the Despoiler's grip. And though we are beset on all sides, with each battle we drive back the mutant, the heretic, THE ALIEN. As I speak these words, our forces engage the remnants of Leviathan. Reclaiming lost worlds, atoning for old shames. A crusade to cleanse the stars. Taking the fight to the enemy. We routed the Tyranids at Baal. We broke their hive fleet. Soon, their foulness will be but a memory. THAT is what the preachers say. Belief will not save us. Lies will not protect us. But it is our hope that will damn us. In the spires and the slums, our people sing of victory. Victory, as the galaxy burns. Victory, as the Imperium rots around us. Victory, as humanity rages against the dying of the light. Victory... - Roboute Guilliman, Lord Commander of the Imperium, Primarch of the Ultramarines, and Son of the God Emperor.

One problem, the wolf in the beginning is NOT Nevas mother, its Neva. Because in the end, Neva gets the exact same scar on her face and dies the exact same way IN THE SAME SPOT UNDER THE SAME TREE. If it was a loop, the wolves couldn't have looked exactly identical.or die in an incredibly identical way in the same cutscene. And that cub in the beginning is Brooma, she is Nevas baby. We can actualy see through credit illustrations that Neva was found by Alba as a cub seeking shelter from the rain.

You mention how in 40k there is a constant threat of Xenos and Chaos even during its "Decline" phase, but you forgot to include the Imperium's "Extremely Central" event - the Horus Heresy. The events resulted to irreversible changes that made the Imperium that we know today.

If you do a part 2, you should talk about the empire in firefly/serenity