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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 127275" data-attributes="member: 3625">IMHO, having a single Prime plane is sufficient.Having a monolithic empire still leaves plenty of doors open.In the Star Trek universe, the Federation might be considered 'monolithic'. While rival empires have challenged it and seriously threatened it, for the most part it is monolithic. Most of the time, the heroes of the shows aren't dealing with these major enemies ... usually they get caught up in a conflict with some Galactically Inconsequential Alien Race of the Week (tm), or multiple GIAROTW's who don't like each other much, or some humanoid culture resembling ours but with a some kind of horrific twist ...This kind of arrangement isn't so bad. If the heroes botch their mission, life as we know it (from their perspective at least) isn't going to change overmuch. Sure, there will be a major war once or twice in their lifetimes, but most of the time they are dealing with isolated incidents ... par for the course for the average adventuring party (YMMV).</blockquote>