Day 7 - G is for Galactic Empire

[vilakins]

It's another SF ABC today for naarmamo. It was going to be a galaxy, but they're not exactly SF since they exist, so it's that good old staple of space opera, the galactic empire.

G is for Galactic Empire



Some may recognise this (hopeful) galactic ruler.

My NaArMaMo 2010 Gallery is here and my SF ABC Gallery is here.

Comments

[trixieleitz]

A lovely combination of arrogance and decadence!

[vilakins]

Thank you! :-)

[zoefruitcake]

I love the 'mine' :D

[vilakins]

Of course it could also be a command. ;-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

That "Mine!" is adorable. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

As soon as I thought of that, I knew what I was drawing.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Ahhahaha, fantastic.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I almost put a "mwahahahaha" in there but Servalan just doesn't do that.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

That's great! Even I know who she is. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You probably can't help but acquire some B7 knowledge around here. :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :)

I got to thinking about galactic empires, and I wondered who was the first writer to come up with the idea. Isaac Asimov used the concept in his "Foundation" stories, the first of which was written in the early 1940s, but I suspect that the idea goes further back than that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love his Foundation series; they still stand up well. You can see in places that he based his on Rome and its fall. I think Terry Nation nicked the idea of psychostrategists from Asimov's psychohistorians, though the B7 ones work on a very personal scale which is the opposite of Asimov's.

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Hee! That made me LOL. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Of course the "Mine!" could be a command. ;-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

She wishes {snicker}

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She did hold some Empress title in S3, but yes, she only had part of the galaxy. Which would be totally untenable in reality, but hey, I like my space opera!

[kernezelda]

Servalan! She may have been scary as hell, but boy did she have style. :D Even in some of the dress-monstrosities she wore, she still carried herself as a beautiful, powerful figure.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I adore Servalan. She's, like, a role model. Sort of.

[kernezelda]

Uh-huh. So, if you were to call yourself her successor of sorts, have you the firepower, political power, (wo)man power and personal armor needed to ensure your survival to said succession?

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I'm not calling myself her successor until I have the dressmaker necessary to ensure my survival.

[kernezelda]

A galactic M would be able to advise you, surely. And there will always be an M. If Servalan had consulted M and not gone gallivanting around, she might still be Empress.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a fic in which she decides that the wearing of inappropriate clothes and disregarding social and military conventions is a sign of power.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Oh that is brilliant! I love it, "Empress Servalan" with a Ming style chair.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was in the big list of titles we heard in S3. I think it went to her head; she called herself "supreme empress" at one stage.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Empress Servalan, love it. :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was one of her titles. :-)