Everyone has seen evil space opera empires based on the Nazis, the Soviet Union, Rome, and so on. What are lesser used historical empires for evil empire purposes, and how would they work?
I'm imagining something based on Britain, where aliens keep colonizing smaller space nations for their own good, but who obviously always come out better for their "kindness."
First one for: ORION IS NOT GARBAGE!!!
>>51233176
>ignore OP, reply to image
I feel like The Expanse deserves to be bumped up one, and Dark Matter deserves to be bumped down one. Top choice on Farscape's placement, though.
>>51233176
This thread: Satanically bad tier
Good inspirational evil empires: USA, Imperial Japan, China, North Korea, Swedish Empire
>>51233176
I'm running a Star Wars Campaign in an original setting. Here's the five factions I have:
The Aggregate: Dark-side Force-wielding Yeerks. Basically use their rudimentary force powers to hijack their host. Want to control everyone and everything.
The Aristaeus: Space Fascists. Nazis minus the Jew-killing and more focused on being a highly diciplined military force to be reckoned with.
The Empire: Force-based Monarchy. Only group that really believes in classic Light-Side/Dark-Side Force. Monarchy is bred for force talent, but not even they can compare to canonical Jedi.(Force is more common, but also weaker in my setting. No Jedi)
The Galactic Republic: Every Galactic Republic Organization Ever. Principally founded by Duros, who have a religious mandate to explore the galaxy, based on Polynesian Mythology, because I thought that thread had a few good ideas. Has it's seedy government operations and experiments. Space 'Murica.
The Free Trade Conglomerate: Rich men split off from the Republic to buy and sell from everyone and everything. In it for the profit, and the biggest advocates of capitalism and individuals attempting to hit it big. Heavily invested in technological and explorational development. Treat the Force like any other scientific phenomena.
>>51233176
Bump up Futurama, take Star Trek a few steps down.
>>51233176
that image is so arbitrary in so many ways it's painful. bsg is cringe, futurama is comedy and out of place, ToS is pulp at best, including cowboy bebop but not including more interesting anime series set in space(forgetting LoGH is particularly embarrassing as it easily btfos every single other show in that image), it's like, why even make this? don't rate them, just make an image that has a bunch of unorganized series related to a theme. this will never please anybody and always cause arguments and shitposting.
look at pic-related for a good example of an image that lists a bunch of titles without causing a shitstorm every time it's posted. it's a nice image.
>>51234695
North Korea is just a joke, though.
>>51234992
Yeah, but then there's less arguments. Arguments are /tg/'s main method of creative development. We don't respond to bait because of autism. We respond because we know fifty posts down someone is going to post a nugget of inspiration that could be anything from a new setting, a new system, or a decent Hard-Sci-Fi Webcomic.