Re: Why Space Empires?
On 2008-01-31, Remus Shepherd penned:
If we drop people on other worlds and have them build homes,
we'll call them a colony. If we have colonies, we have an
empire. Every colonial period in human history has been driven
by empires.
The US started out as colonies, but I don't think anyone these days
thinks of the US as colonists fighting the evil British empire.
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monique
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- Re: Why Space Empires?
... Space Opera) have some sort of Monarchy and/or Feudalistic system of ... If we have colonies, we have an empire. ... I don't know...maybe we could have immense, multi-city colony fleets ...
(rec.arts.sf.composition) - Re: Why Space Empires?
... Space Opera) have some sort of Monarchy and/or Feudalistic system of ... If we have colonies, we have an empire. ... there are a bunch of definitions of empire on the web, but they essentially all require that the "colonies" be tightly controlled by the central government. ...
(rec.arts.sf.composition) - Re: Anglo-Nippon war 1930s
... history and ignore the person, and I ... differed very little from those of the unabashed colonial nations. ... development of the British Empire after 1850 proves beyond any doubt ... inter-war period for the minor colonies. ...
(soc.history.war.world-war-ii) - Re: Liberty Bell 7 attempted recovery
... > verifiable evidence of any US colony. ... First, one does need to found a colony, in order to ... colonies are not the only evidence of ... Was it an empire? ...
(sci.space.history) - Re: Beaufighters
... What "empire" we acquired was almost accidental and as a result ... occupied by opposing forces? ... the situation in the 13 colonies wasn't like that in the 14th ... to revanchist LIPs out there that had Red Cloud not prevailed we ...
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