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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8179699" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Yeah, it comes down to religion, politics, traditions - the fun stuff.</p><p></p><p>Traveller did this with some of their races, partly dependent on native psychology, but could be translated into cultural values. The examples I’m thinking of are the Aslan and Vargr. Both do involve territory, but neither simply because they need space. The Aslan are landed clans but second (and later) sons don’t inherit the clan lands so they are driven to take and settle their own. Resources aren’t an issue, inheritance and ownership are. The Vargr are at least partly judged by their rep, their prestige, their charisma. Ambitious warlords will grow their charisma by raiding or even taking worlds. So again, not actually about the space, but about the person taking the space.</p><p></p><p>For politics, there’s the idea of balance, denying another empire systems to keep them from growing or encroaching your space. Maybe the wars are to set up or protect client states as buffers (like the xth Frontier Wars in Traveller between the Third Imperium and the Zhodani Consulate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8179699, member: 3400"] Yeah, it comes down to religion, politics, traditions - the fun stuff. Traveller did this with some of their races, partly dependent on native psychology, but could be translated into cultural values. The examples I’m thinking of are the Aslan and Vargr. Both do involve territory, but neither simply because they need space. The Aslan are landed clans but second (and later) sons don’t inherit the clan lands so they are driven to take and settle their own. Resources aren’t an issue, inheritance and ownership are. The Vargr are at least partly judged by their rep, their prestige, their charisma. Ambitious warlords will grow their charisma by raiding or even taking worlds. So again, not actually about the space, but about the person taking the space. For politics, there’s the idea of balance, denying another empire systems to keep them from growing or encroaching your space. Maybe the wars are to set up or protect client states as buffers (like the xth Frontier Wars in Traveller between the Third Imperium and the Zhodani Consulate. [/QUOTE]
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