Weapons and Warfare

Every person, every empire has an agenda, and sometimes it cannot be achieved in business or trade or even blockades. In those cases the low risk option of the trade embargo fails. The result is war.

War is a factor of the modern galaxy in the same way that commerce or art or science are. War has always been around, and it appears that past alien races engaged in it (although their motives were not always clear)

In the more developed parts of the galactic community, war is very rare. The time when human-led nation states would rattle sabres at each other, or the megacorp-backed military-entertainment complex would encourage bloody but safely distant proxy wars, are long since over. Apart from Free Zones, where anything goes, the governing hyperturings find memetic subversion a far more profitable way of capturing territory and converting populace than war ever was.

Away from the reach of the ruling AI Gods and their seraiph however, war continues as it always has. In the middle and outer regions, local clades, houses, or megacorps may fight a bloody battle for ownership of a strategic or resource rich solar system, or possession of rare and valuable clarketech or other relics left by transcends. Or local warlords can establish neofeudal fiefdoms. Some believe the transingularity powers allow this as a lesson to show how foolish it is to live in a society run by nearbaselines or mere superbrights.

But most of the real problems the galaxy faces result from perversions and blights - rogue AIs or clarketech. The sudden rise of aggressively hegemonizing empires like the Conver Ambi early on, and the Laughter Hegemony and the Amalgamation in the current era, can be explained in this way

Warfare A-Z

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